Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] Ukraine’s state-owned space company Yuzhmash has postponed the delivery of basic parts for Orbital Sciences’ Taurus-2 launch vehicle’s first stage, Yuzhmash announced Aug. 4. Due to technical...

[Satellite News 08-09-10] The government’s expanding need for mobile broadband satellite services drove Inmarsat to order three Ka-band satellites and form a distribution partnership with Boeing, Inmarsat CEO Andy Sukawaty...

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped the U.S. Air Force’s STPSat-2 satellite to the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska for its scheduled launch on an Orbital...

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] SES World Skies’ U.S. Government Solutions Division has delivered the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) sensor assembly to manufacturer Orbital Sciences for installation on the SES-2 satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] Inmarsat will invest more than $1 billion in three Ka-band satellites that will be manufactured by Boeing based on the 702 high-power platform, which be used to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-10] Orbit Technologies has won a $19 million systems contract with an unnamed military customer, the company announced Aug. 4.     The contract will see Orbit supply the...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] General Dynamics awarded Lockheed Martin a $71 million contract to provide communications hardware and equipment for the transmission subsystem of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] In a justification and approval memorandum released Aug. 2, the U.S. Army said it might move away from Comtech for future Movement Tracking System 3 (MTS-3) contracts...

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Honeywell received a contract from the United Launch Alliance to provide primary avionics components for guidance and navigation of the Atlas 5 rocket, Honeywell announced July 30....

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be able to conduct launches throughout the year beginning in April, the agency announced July 29.      Under the previous...