Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-10] The U.S. Department of Commerce is planning to create a U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Service line office that will combine the agency’s climate science...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-10] Northrop Grumman appointed Linnie Haynesworth vice president and deputy program director for its National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) division, the company announced Feb. 9.    ...

A second global arms race may erupt by 2025 if the international community does not take steps toward a space treaty program, according to a forecast published by the Military...

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) appointed Mark DeYoung President and CEO, effective immediately, the company announced Feb. 4     DeYoung also was elected to serve on the company’s board and will replace...

The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program will be dismantled and split between separate projects headed by the U.S. Department of Defense and a partnership between NASA and...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) issued a solicitation for the $5 billion, 10-year Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) award...

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 to the moon;...

Astrium has been awarded a follow-on contract for the delivery of a second set of subsystems to the Turkish Navy’s Milgem satellite communications program, the company announced Feb. 4.    ...

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.     The cryocoolers...

ViaSat has received $1.9 million in additional orders from the U.S. Department of Defense for its LinkWayS2 satellite modem systems to support U.S. government networks, the company announced Feb. 3....