Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] GTX Corp., a real-time, two-way GPS tracking and personal location services provider, has crossed the 1 million-download milestone mark for its GPS Tracking Apps through Apple and...

  Cisco’s Internet Router in Space (IRIS) initiative and hosted payloads have been big discussions in recent years, particularly in terms of how they could shape future government and military...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-11] Orbital Sciences’ Minotaur 1 rocket successfully launched the U.S. Department of Defense’s ORS-1 satellite from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) launch facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility,...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-11] Lockheed Martin is two weeks ahead of its production schedule for the GeoEye-2 next-generation imaging satellite it is building for Dulles, Va.-based imagery provider GeoEye, Lockheed announced...

In this day and age, with so much emphasis on cutting costs and debt reduction, the mantra is to do more with less. The satellite industry is no exception. With...

On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin made the first human flight into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed one earth orbit, and was followed in May 1961 by the suborbital...

[Satellite TODAY 06-30-11] U.K.-based satellite imagery provider DMC International Imaging (DMCii) signed a contract worth 110 million British pounds ($176.2 million) with Beijing-based company 21AT, to provide access to high-resolution...

 [Satellite TODAY Insider 06-30-11] Raytheon’s Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System team has successfully tripled the bandwidth on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) enabling the...

 [Satellite TODAY 06-30-11] Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (YahSat) has completed a demonstration for the space and ground segments of its YahSecure government Ka-band service and is now ready to...

[Satellite TODAY 06-29-11] Canadian information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed three contract amendments with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) totaling $10.5 million for the design phase...