Government/Military

OneWeb has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Astana International Financial Centre  (AIFC), a financial hub in Central Asia, to accelerate broadband connectivity in Kazakhstan. The partners will work […]

Intelligent Waves has been awarded a competitive, single award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The contract called Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Global Logistical Services […]

Astroscale has been awarded a grant of up to $4.5 million from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Innovation Tokyo Project” to build a roadmap for commercializing active debris removal services. The […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus have signed a contract booking a Norwegian instrument for the Bartolomeo platform on the International Space Station (ISS), which is scheduled for launch […]

As government entities transition their operations to adopt the latest technological developments — including edge computing and cloud-based applications — they need to augment their existing networks with additional terminals […]

 From analyzing firefighter’s health data, to communicating on the front lines in conflict zones, to managing a complex election process in land-locked Burkina Faso, satellites deliver the real-time data […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Raytheon a cost-plus-incentive-fee undefinitized contract action for the force element terminal (FET) development effort worth $442 million. This contract provides for the design, […]

As the military works to build the U.S. Space Force from the ground up, its goal is to be lean and equipped for the speed of war fighting in the […]

NASA and Boeing are in the process of establishing a joint, independent investigation team to examine the issue with Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, the space agency announced Tuesday. Boeing’s […]

Thales Alenia Space and Thales have signed a contract with The French defense procurement agency DGA to carry out a concept study concerning intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications using […]

Get SAT and Inmarsat have demonstrated and deployed a Dual SAT terminal solution for U.S. government agencies, the companies announced on Monday. The solution employs Get SAT’s micronized Milli SAT LM […]

The 14th Air Force – previously the Air Force component to U.S. Strategic Command for space operations – last month was redesignated as the Space Operations Command (SPOC) under the […]

Mission operators at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have lost contact with the Asteria CubeSat, which studies planets outside our solar system. The last successful communication with Asteria […]

Defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will develop and build the State of Israel’s national communications satellite, “Dror 1,” the company announced on Thursday. Dror 1 built by the state-owned […]

Mozambique’s National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) has begun using a satellite system provided by China, according to Xinhua. INAM announced on Friday that the new system will allow for more […]

In 2018, natural disasters claimed 10,400 lives and caused $160 billion worth of damage, according to German reinsurer Munich Re. That’s down from $350 billion and 13,000 lives lost in […]

Elon Musk tweeted a simulation of what a crewed flight to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon will look like, forecasting a crewed flight during 2020.  “Crew Dragon should […]

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $100 million maximum U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite contract to support U.S. Special Operations Command, DoD announced on Dec. 23.  The contract is […]

President Trump signed the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Dec. 20, officially standing up the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces under […]

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sunday, bringing an end to NASA‘s Orbital Flight Test, which missed its objective to dock with […]

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space signed a letter of intent on Thursday to create a Centre of Excellence for Clean Space in Luxembourg. […]

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, the agency announced on Wednesday. The GOES-T mission aims to provide […]

Inmarsat Government has ordered a Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 46WGX from Orbit Communications Systems, the companies announced on Thursday. The order comes after the two companies signed a co-development agreement in […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Centurum Information Technology a $89.9 million single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, performance-based service contract utilizing cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders. The contract is for satcom services […]

Lockheed Martin delivered the capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA‘s Mars 2020 rover to the Kennedy Space Center, in Titusville, Florida, on Dec. 12. The aeroshell will encapsulate the Mars […]

Capella Space, which provides Earth observation imagery, has signed a contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), to study the integration of its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery into the […]

Data Analytics satellite company HawkEye 360 won a commercial RF survey study contract from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the company announced Dec. 11. HawkEye 360 will examine the integration […]

The 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19), a “death-by-a-thousand-cuts” experience for the satellite industry held every four years by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has just wrapped up its latest get-together […]

Envistacom was awarded a $47.8 million, three-year award to support the Deployable Ku-Band Earth Terminal (DKET) program managed by the U.S. Army’s Product Manager Satellite Communications (PdM SATCOM). The task […]

The U.S. Navy has announced the winner of its $731.8 million sole-source contract award for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system. General Dynamics Mission Systems will provide new […]