Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 05-30-12]  Cambridge Consultants and Iridium Communications have successfully completed initial trials of key new components of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS), a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-29-12] Lockheed Martin has received the core structure for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite (GEO-4), the company announced May 24.            ...

[Satellite TODAY 05-29-12] The Dragon spacecraft has been successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX announced May 25. This comes three days after the successful launch of the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-29-12] Boeing completed the software Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2) initiative, as part of NASA’s Space Act Agreement last week, the company announced May...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-24-11] After the drama of the aborted launch of the Falcon 9 May 19, SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 May 22, carrying the Dragon spacecraft towards...

[Satellite News 05-25-12] In the first part of this two-part interview Col. Michael Lakos, Chief, Global Mission Support Division of the U.S. Air Force, spoke about the Air Force’s perspective...

[Satellite News 05-24-12] While hosted payload-type deals have been relatively few and far between in the industry, there is hope that there may be some more highly innovative ones coming...

[Satellite TODAY 05-23-11]  SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft to orbit. The company, which had to dramatically abort the mission at the last second...

[Satellite TODAY 05-22-11]  SpaceX aborted the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station in the last seconds to launch on May 19. The company said the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-21-12] The U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013 has been amended to includea measure that would give the U.S. president authority to ease export restrictions...