Government/Military

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched a covert payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Delta 4 rocket as part of the classified...

Comtech Mobile Datacom has received a three-month indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to support the U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracking 1 (BFT-1) and Movement Tracking System (MTS) programs, the company announced April 2....

[Satellite TODAY 04-11-12] Canadian antenna manufacturer C-Com Satellite Systems has received $1 million in orders for its iNetVu mobile antenna products from an unnamed customer in Russia, the company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 04-11-12] ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems has delivered GeoEye’s next-generation commercial imaging system for the operator’s GeoEye-2 satellite to the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., ITT...

iDirect Government Technologies has released a satellite router that meets strict airborne communications requirements for operation on military aircraft, the company announced March 26.        The new e8000 AR...

International Launch Services (ILS) successfully placed the Intelsat 22 satellite into a super-synchronous transfer orbit onboard a Proton M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and the spacecraft’s manufacturer Boeing Space...

ViaSat has successfully fielded its new Satellite Access Manager (SAM) broadband satcom service manager for United States military airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations, the company announced.        The...

Gilat Satellite Networks’ wholly owned subsidiary Wavestream has introduced a new 80-Watt X-band Matchbox solid-state power amplifier to address the needs of military and government applications, Wavestream announced.        The 80-Watt...

[Satellite TODAY 04-10-12] Work is underway to launch Azerbaijan’s first national satellite by its planned target date at the end of the year, Azercosmos announced April 9. Orbital Sciences Corp....

[Satellite News 04-10-12] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) is teaming with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to host a Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) on a commercial satellite that will be...