Government/Military

The milsatcom market could be an interesting one to watch this year given that governments around the world are still in the process of shaping their future plans. What is...

[Satellite TODAY 03-30-12] SpaceX has assembled a team of outside experts to form an independent safety advisory panel that will oversee the company’s human spaceflight system, SpaceX announced March 29....

[Satellite TODAY 03-30-12] Researchers at Switzerland’s Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL) claim to have built a miniature rocket motor that could lower the price of satellite launches to one-tenth of...

[Satellite TODAY 03-29-12] Nigeria has purchased Earth imagery resources from British observation satellites after discovering that its own recently launched, $64 million satellite project failed to provide relevant images in...

[Satellite News 03-28-12] The Swiss Space Center hopes to obtain investments from international firms to support its recent efforts to develop a solution that will clean up space debris in...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-27-12] 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...

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] 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...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-26-12] Lockheed Martin confirmed March 23 that the Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) satellites it is building for the Air Force Space Command are “on schedule,...

[Satellite TODAY 03-26-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) is scheduled to send a new classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) into orbit March 29 on a Delta 4...

[Satellite News 03-22-12] The research department of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) confirmed its plans to issue a call March 27 for a rapidly deployable constellation of small,...