Government/Military

KBR was awarded two contract modifications totaling almost $40 million to upgrade remote tracking stations in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). The U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSC) […]

Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) in partnership with Help.NGO deployed its GATR satellite communication antennas and DTECH Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, including Vocality Radio Over IP (RoIP) products, to assist […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions received a $7.5 million award to enhance the U.S. Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) architecture with a Satellite Situational Awareness (SSA), Common Operating Picture (SA-COP). […]

Viasat  and Ubix, a wholesale satellite internet and telecommunications company, are collaborating  with the Mexican government to connect government buildings, federal clinics and schools across Mexico, under the “Internet para […]

Consumer Technology Association (CTA) President and CEO and New York Times best-selling author Gary Shapiro is one of the most powerful tech industry voices in Washington D.C., representing more than […]

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed his nation’s intention to join the United States’ Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA’s Artemis lunar program. The statement foresees potential Australian contributions […]

Hughes Network Systems was selected as an awardee under the $3 billion U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tactical Communications Equipment and Services II (TacCom II) contract vehicle. The follow-on […]

Iridium Communications was awarded a $738.5 million, seven-year, fixed-price contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSpC) to provide unlimited satellite services […]

NASA awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a cubesat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway – an orbiting outpost […]

Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems recently completed environmental testing for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Wide Field of View (WFOV) satellite at Boeing’s Space Environment […]

Thanks to GPS satellite-guided tractors, a single U.S. farmer can now feed 165 people each year, compared to just 10 people a few years earlier, according to U.S. Senator Joni […]

Airbus won a design study from the U.K.’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to develop the technologies for a cluster of ultra-high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for the U.K. […]

We’ve seen Hurricane Dorian from inside the eye, from satellites and looking down from the International Space Station. A tiny experimental NASA weather satellite has now given us a fascinating […]

U.S. Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) will join U.S. Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Pen Test Partners Live-Hacker Ken Munro, Invatare CEO and former Statoil North America […]

Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) announced today that it has delivered a small satellite designed for NASA to measure the microphysical properties of cloud water and ice particles. […]

Eutelsat withdrew from the C-Band Alliance (CBA). The CBA saw major satellite companies SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat and Telesat join forces to ensure satellite companies play an active role in the […]

Orbit Communications Systems revealed that that systems integrator THESTA ordered additional dual-band OceanTRx 4 systems for the PGZ Group — a contractor of naval navigation, communications, and combat systems in […]

Kleos Space has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract with a focus on “Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force […]

SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule has become the first U.S. spacecraft to successfully complete three trips to the International Space Station (ISS). Earlier this week, the California-based launch company safely landed its […]

A new U.S. Space Command that will serve as the Trump Administration’s transition to a full-fledged “Space Force,” officially commences operations Aug. 29. The launch date was confirmed by U.S. […]

Viasat has upgraded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the new Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline, the company announced […]

Maxar has won a significant new US government contract, worth close to $50 million in the first year, the company announced Aug. 27. The company’s new four-year contract was issued […]

MITRE has becoming the latest founding member of a major space cybersecurity initiative – Space ISAC. This follows on from a key announcement in April when the Space Information Sharing […]

Raytheon has been contracted by The University of New Hampshire to build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) sensor that will serve as NASA’s first hyperspectral imager in […]

Russian space agency Roscosmos has filed a patent for a satellite shield system that aims to protect spacecraft from colliding with dangerous objects in space. According to the patent, which was […]

The UK space industry is calling on the government to commit 150 million British pounds a year to an innovation fund as part of a national program that would recognize […]

The U.S. Air Force used Raytheon Company‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, known as GPS OCX, to support the launch of its second GPS III satellite into space. The ground […]

French space agency CNES, in a statement released to the medias aid that an agreement its president Jean-Yves Le Gall and ISRO Chairman K Sivan had signed earlier has no […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the second Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite, nicknamed Magellan, for the U.S. Air Force […]

The Aerospace Corporation received a sole-source nine-year follow-on contract with a total potential value of $621 million from NASA to provide NASA-wide Specialized Engineering, Evaluation and Test Services (NSEETS). The contract has […]