Government/Military

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. launched its next-generation Blue Force Tracking High Capacity (BFT-HC) solution for satellite-enhanced asset tracking and secure mobile data communications, Comtech announced March 9....

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has delivered the first two suites of equipment for the Kanopus-type satellite platforms to VNIIEM in Russia, the company said March 6....

Mikulski Continues To Chair NASA Oversight Subcommittee Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) will continue to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee commerce, justice, science and related agencies subcommittee for the next...

NASA named six people to a mishap investigation board to probe causes of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) disaster, in which the carbon-dioxide-tracking satellite was lost as it plunged into...

In a brilliant nighttime launch, a Delta II rocket from United Launch Alliance (ULA) blazed into a black sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to place the Kepler...

Updated — March 6, 2009 – 12:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 Mission: Kepler Launch...

Courtney Stadd, a former NASA official who left the agency, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using a temporary NASA post he held later to help steer...

The Air Force Research Laboratory gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract to develop lightweight wireless systems inside spacecraft, in place of heavy copper wire systems. Northrop will develop a...

A new Navy Air and Missile Defense Command will be stood up next month at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren, Va., Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations,...

NASA and the Air Force designated three university and industry partners in California, Texas and Virginia as national hypersonic science centers. Those centers will advance research in air-breathing propulsion, materials...