Government/Military

[Satellite News 03-10-10] Col. William Harding, vice commander, Military Satellite Communications System Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, directs acquisition planning, programming, budgeting and operational...

[Satellite TODAY 03-05-10] NASA has started an initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites, dubbed CubeSats, as auxiliary payloads on launch vehicles already scheduled for 2011 and 2012, the agency announced...

[Satellite TODAY 03-05-10] Northrop Grumman appointed Elizabeth Iversen sector vice president and general manager of its navigation systems division, the company announced March 1.     Iversen will have executive responsibility...

[Satellite TODAY 03-03-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom received a $20.6 million order under its existing $243.5 million Blue Force Tracking (BFT) contract with the U.S. Army, the company announced March 2....

[Satellite TODAY 03-03-10] The Taiwanese government has selected XipLink to provide Tai E Trading Co. with optimization equipment and technology in support of services that will be used in a...

[Satellite TODAY 03-03-10] Raytheon Co. has appointed William Kiczuk CTO and vice president, the company announced March 1.      Kiczuk will be responsible for developing and executing Raytheon’s technology and...

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-10] The launch of Boeing’s Geostationary Operational Environmental (GOES-P) satellite has been rescheduled for March 4 on a Delta 4 rocket, the company announced March 1.         Boeing...

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom has received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking (BFT-1) program contract from the U.S. Army, the company announced Feb. 25....

  Speak now or forever hold your peace or at least hold it for a long time until provision can be made to hear your arguments. The U.S. Federal Communications...

The success enjoyed by the commercial satellite sector over recent decades comes as no surprise to the engineers, technicians and managers who have been contributing to its remarkable growth by...