Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 02-04-10] Northrop Grumman has been selected by ITT Corp. to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads on two international geostationary weather satellites, Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 3....

[Satellite TODAY 02-03-10] The U.S. Navy has issued a contract to CapRock Government Solutions to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti, the...

[Satellite TODAY 02-03-10] Multiple member states of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) have agreed to subscribe to the Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite program, Eumetsat announced...

[Satellite News 02-03-10] Manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences have released conflicting statements in response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget proposal to cancel NASA’s Orion project as part of...

[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 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...

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...