Government/Military

The U.K. government initiated two consultations this summer that will have an impact on the satellite industry as a whole. Both are initiatives of the newly-renamed Department for Business Innovation...

The 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, and the approaching end of the space shuttle program after a nearly 30-year run have prompted reflection and soul-searching...

[Satellite TODAY 09-30-09] Comtech Mobile Datacom received $7.3 million in Blue Force Tracking orders from the U.S. Army, the company announced Sept. 29.     Comtech will supply the Army with...

[Satellite TODAY 09-30-09] RapidEye has been added to the prime vendor contract list for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Services as well as the USDA Office of...

[Satellite TODAY 09-30-09] GeoEye has received $249.5 million in funding as a result of its 2012 senior note sale offered Sept. 21, the company announced.     The funding is a...

[Satellite TODAY 09-29-09] Boeing completed developmental system testing on the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite ground control system, known as the Operational Control Segment (OCS), for the...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] SpaceX demonstrated its DragonEye proximity sensor to be used on NASA’s STS-127 shuttle mission, the launch company announced Sept. 25.     DragonEye was launched aboard the Space...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] ViaSat Inc. was awarded two orders valued at more than $10 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals and spare components from the U.S. Space and...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the Oceansat-2 and six nanosatellites, including Jugnu, India’s lightest nanosatellite, the organization said Sept. 23.     The satellites were launched...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] GeoEye Inc. has upped its 9.6 interest debt offering to $400 million, the imagery company announced Sept. 24.     The initial offering of $350 million was announced...