Government/Military

The first Viasat-3 satellite has begun serving its first government customer, the U.S. Marine Corps, Viasat announced Thursday.  The Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38 (MWCS-38) and the 3rd Marine Littoral...

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is pushing back on the FCC’s decision to cancel funding for SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in a federal rural broadband program.  Rep. James Comer,...

Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems in El Segundo, California said on Monday that it has finished preliminary design review (PDR) of the company’s Low Earth Orbit Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Thursday awarded Impulse Space a $34.5 million contract for two tactically responsive space (TacRS) missions in 2026 for space domain awareness and...

Intellian Technologies received Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certification for its ARC-M4 Block 1 multi-band, multi-orbit satellite terminal. This terminal is known as the AN/USC-75 in the JETDAS military naming system....

Telespazio has won a new contract from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to help expand the space capacity of the ASI Sardinia Deep Space Antenna (SDSA). The SDSA already shares...

NASA awarded Aalyria and Intuitive Machines contracts to perform studies to advance space communication capabilities.  Aalyria received a contract to demonstrate its Spacetime network management software for the NASA Space...

BlackSky Technology will research advanced optical inter-satellite link terminal applications for the U.S. Navy after winning a competitive contract under the the Navy’s Project Overmatch and the Department of Defense’s...

Astranis, Axient, L3Harris Technologies, and Sierra Space are to submit design concepts for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) to U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) to launch up to eight R-GPS satellites...

Viasat will develop a phased array antenna for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract as part of the ‘Global Lightning’ program.  The AFRL awarded Viasat a $33.6...