Government/Military

[Satellite Today 07-01-09] The management of the development and validation phase of the Galileo satellite navigation program “was inadequate” and the proposal for a public-private partnership to oversee the venture...

The Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) apparently is following a new "get tough" approach with member states that do not follow the rules on putting communications...

The satellite industry is no stranger to enforcement actions by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). These actions typically take the form of fines for failure to obtain or maintain...

The government often is both the largest employer and consumer of goods and services in a country, and in many countries a better description for the government would be a...

[Satellite Today 06-30-09] Boeing and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) received the first on-orbit signals from the GOES-O satellite and reported that the Earth observation satellite is...

[Satellite Today 06-30-09] DigitalGlobe signed a contract to extend its NextView world imagery service agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) for $12.5 million per month, DigitalGlobe announced...

[Satellite Today 06-29-09] Wavestream Corp. received orders totaling more than $50 million from General Dynamics for products from Wavestream’s family of Ka-band SSPAs  for the U.S. Army’s new satellite transportable...

[Satellite Today 06-29-09] MDA signed a $21.7 million contract with the Canadian government to provide the Canadian Department of National Defense with a maritime surveillance solution based on MDA’s Radarsat-2,...

[Satellite Today 06-29-09] ITT Corp. named Edward Kelly as director of image information solutions for tactical development in the company’s space systems division, the company announced June 26.     Kelly...

[Satellite Today 06-29-09] U.K. government and space industry leaders launched the Innovation Growth Team (IGT), a review organization focusing on U.K. space and technology sectors, IGT announced June 25.    ...