Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-02-11] The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA), formed in March by seven of the satellite industry’s biggest companies to promote potential benefits of hosted government payloads on commercial...

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-11] Engineering firm Global Science and Technology (GST) has unveiled a new small-satellite concept that aims to improve current Landsat image data, GST announced April 29.     Earth...

The European Galileo satellite location system is intended to provide a strategic navigation option that reduces reliance on U.S. management of the GPS constellation. Galileo, however, has had some teething...

Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) carriers that provide interconnected, two-way voice services must be fully equipped to handle 911 emergency calls. This means that providers must establish call centers to receive...

As the military enters a “do more with less” environment in terms of its budget, the commercial satellite communications sector finds itself in a potentially valuable position. As inevitable budget...

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] ViaSat and STM Group successfully demonstrated waveform interoperability between the STM SatLink 2000 modem and the ViaSat Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM) for the U.S. Department of...

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] NASA has postponed its scheduled May launch of a Minotaur 4 rocket from its Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska due to its similarities to the Orbital Sciences...

[Satellite News 04-28-11] The United States Export-Import Bank has voted to approve BNP Parabis’ application to finance Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies purchase of the Azerspace/Africasat-1A satellite from...

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $10 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop technical solutions that will help maintain command and control systems for the...

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Boeing has delivered the U.S. Air Force Space Command‘s second GPS 2F satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to prepare for launch aboard a United...