Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-21-11] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying three satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India, ISRO Chairman...

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] DigitalGlobe has raised the orbit of its QuickBird satellite, the company announced April 19.     DigitalGlobe lifted QuickBird from its previous 450-kilometer orbit to a new slot...

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] U.S. Space has been awarded a $291,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to study feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-19-11] United Space Alliance (USA) will implement a major workforce reduction in late July and early August following the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program due...

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a...

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] ASRC Aerospace Corp. was awarded a contract from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to operate and maintain the agency’s Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility in...

[Satellite News 04-19-11] NASA has distributed $269 million to four U.S. commercial launch companies as part of the Obama administration’s National Space Policy to develop domestic alternatives to send astronauts...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new U.S. spy satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket to support a secret national security mission for the U.S. National...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] Esri has signed a strategic contract with GeoEye to license a large supply of GeoEye’s high-resolution Ikonos archive imagery, the satellite imagery provider announced April 15.    ...