Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-11] Lockheed Martin Space Systems has won a $339.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ultra-high frequency communications satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-11] Comtech Xicom Technology received a $1 million order from the U.S. Navy for high-power amplifiers as an expansion to an existing contract for broad spectrum of new...

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-11] U.S. Electrodynamics (USEI) commercial satellite communications services have received mission-assurance and confidentiality compliance ratings from the U.S. Department of Defense, the company announced Feb. 8.     CapRock...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-09-11] ATK and Astrium have unveiled their new Liberty rocket under NASA‘s Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement program, combining ATK’s first stage four-segment solid rocket boosters from...

[Satellite News 02-08-11] U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and French Defense Minister Alain Juppe signed a statement of principles Feb. 8 outlining a bilateral agreement between the two countries to...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-08-11] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi unveiled a slew of ambitious satellite programs, including prototypes of four domestically developed satellites and...

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-11] Orbital Sciences launched a secret U.S. government payload Feb. 5 aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Orbital announced Feb. 7.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-11] Orbit Communication Systems, a satellite communications, tracking antennas, and airborne communications-management systems provider, has implemented two of its advanced tracking and telemetry systems as part of SpaceX’s...

[Satellite TODAY 02-07-11] Astrotech posted a $1.6 million net loss in its fiscal year 2011 second quarter — a 34 percent drop from the $1.7 million in net income it...

[Satellite News 02-07-11] The European Commission’s (EC) Galileo and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) mid-term review, released Jan. 18, revealed that satellite navigation programs would now cost more than...