Government/Military

[Satellite News 02-02-10] U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to cut NASA’s manned Constellation lunar mission program and invest $6 billion in commercial launch companies to replace the retiring Space Shuttle...

[Satellite TODAY 02-02-10] The White House has terminated NASA’s work on Orion, the follow-up vehicle to the Space Shuttle; ended development on two NASA rockets designed to fly manned missions...

[Satellite TODAY 02-02-10] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) received a $2.62 million contract from the Canadian Department of National Defense for the continued operation of Canadian Forces Radio and Television (CFRT),...

[Satellite TODAY 02-02-10] Integral Systems revenues dropped 2 percent in its first fiscal quarter of 2010 to $37.7 million from the same quarter in the previous year, despite the company...

[Satellite TODAY 02-02-10] Space Micro appointed Bert Vermeire CTO, the company announced Feb. 1.     Vermeire was principal investigator on a variety of space industry research topics, including radiation effects...

[Satellite TODAY 02-01-10] Arianespace signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) defining the legal responsibilities and operational services Arianespace will provide during the combined testing and integration of...

A committee of the United Nations dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space has proposed the creation of a U.N. space policy. Would this be a good thing? Is...

[Satellite News 01-28-10] In his first State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama outlined goals to double U.S. exports over the next five years which...

[Satellite TODAY 01-28-10] Intelsat General was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide C-, Ku-, and X-band satellite resources, land earth stations, terrestrial backhaul, and bandwidth management services...

[Satellite TODAY 01-28-10] Integral Systems subsidiary RT Logic has been awarded a contract by Honeywell Technologies Solutions to supply narrowband and wideband modems for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite...