Government/Military

[Satellite News 02-06-09] President Obama is pursuing a global ban on space-based weapons while promising to protect U.S. satellites from harm, according to a Jan. 26 announcement from the White...

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Vice President, Space Systems, J.P. Stevens told Satellite Today, that he does not believe that a change in the ruling party of the...

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] GeoEye Inc. initiated commercial operations for the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite and submitted imagery from the satellite to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for certification, GeoEye announced...

[Satellite Today 02-05-09] The RapidEye constellation is ready to begin operations, RapidEye AG announced Feb. 4.     The constellation was launched in August, and prime contractor MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates...

[Satellite Today 04-05-09] Boeing shipped the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, WGS-2, from its El Segundo, Calif., facility to Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, where it will be...

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Iran launched Omid, its first domestically made satellite, Feb. 2, Iranian state radio reported.     The satellite, designated to monitor natural disasters and earthquakes, was taken into...

[Satellite News 02-04-09] European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) Secretary General Aarti Holla-Maini is preparing for a busy year as she looks to lobby the European Commission (EC) to provide funds...

Iran likely will establish some sort of controls on firing the nuclear-tipped missiles it seems bent upon developing, but a worrisome factor is that Iran has been decentralizing once-rigid control...

Defense contactors have several moves they can make to lessen the brutal impact of impending defense spending cuts, according to Loren Thompson, COO of the Lexington Institute, a think tank...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke as a witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and then before the House Armed Services Committee, touching on topics including missile defense. The...