Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-10] NASA is seeking proposals for testing new technologies during suborbital flights and requesting information from commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicle providers and commercial payload integrators about carrying...

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-10] ViaSat received $13.8 million in Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) follow-on orders from the U.S. Army, the company announced Dec. 21.     The order is part of...

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-10] Harris Corp. won a $42 million contract from prime contractor Sierra Nevada Corp. to supply antenna and radar electronics for a satellite that will provide high-resolution radar...

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-10] The Russian Defense Ministry has postponed the launch of the Glonass-K satellite until 2011, Russian officials announced Dec. 21.     The satellite was scheduled to launch on...

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-10] Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $2.1 million in funding by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for two projects under the Information in a Photon...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-21-10] Raytheon signed a definitive agreement to acquire communications specialist Applied Signal Technology for approximately $490 million in cash, Raytheon announced Dec. 20.      Raytheon Chairman and...

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-10] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) postponed the Dec. 19 launch of GSAT-5P satellite aboard its Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F06) after a leak was discovered in...

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-10] NASA has test-fired the Aerojet liquid fuel AJ26 engine, which was built to power the first stage of Orbital Sciences‘ Taurus 2 rocket, the agency announced Dec.20....

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] Lockheed Martin Space Systems won a $1.3 billion contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to build the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) secure communications satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] NASA named Richard Keegan associate deputy administrator, replacing Charles Scales, who is retiring after serving in the position since April 2007, the agency announced Dec. 17.    ...