Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a contract modification to United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3)...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Russia has launched a Soyuz-U space rocket carrying the Progress Ðœ-05Ðœ spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Russian officials announced April 29.       The Progress Ðœ-05 cargo...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Lockheed Martin has delivered a UHF satellite communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program, the company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Xtar Vice President of Government Services Bill Schmidt died April 28 following a heart attack.  Schmidt, a senior manager of Xtar since 2007, participated as an authoritative...

[Satellite News 04-30-10] With its ComsatBw Stage 2 program, the German Armed Forces now control their own dedicated telecommunications satellites. The program is comprised of the ComsatBw-1 satellite, launched in...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-10] ManSat has appointed Anthony Hewitt director of the company, ManSat announced April 28.             Hewitt previously served as director of the Isle of Man Government Communications Commission,...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-10] The Australian Defense Force (ADF) exercised its contract option with Intelsat to purchase the remainder of the specialized UHF communications payload on the Intelsat 22 satellite, the...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-10] Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems has selected Newtec to provide Elevation EL470 DVB-S2 IP modems with FlexACM licenses for Raytheon’s McMurdo Station satellite communication system upgrade in...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-10] Defense contractor Global Telesat Corp. (GTC) has agreed to purchase a 50 percent interest in one of Sanswire Corp.’s SkySat airships for $250,000, with an option to...

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-10] EADS Astrium has shipped a payload for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Galileo satellite-navigation system to ESA facilities in Rome, the company announced April 27. The Proto-flight...