Government/Military

The Hubble Space Telescope spotted carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star, NASA announced. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial...

A satellite orbiting Mars completed its primary two-year mission and, after a pause, will be ready for another, NASA announced. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of a complex Martian...

Light-colored deposits in Martian soil indicate that water long ago may have gushed from springs, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported. That water might, for a time, have sheltered any...

The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B10 satellite completed 15 years on orbit, 50 percent more than its 10-year design life, builder Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The entire DSCS...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] The Yaogan 5 satellite, a Chinese Earth observation satellite, was launched on board a Long March rocket from the Taiyuan launch base, state-owned Xinhua News Agency announced...

[Satellite News 12-15-08] Advancements in satellite positioning services, combined with telecommunications and cartographic services, will greatly benefit civil service fields such as law enforcement and emergency management in Europe, according...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] The U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA) awarded Arinc and Impeva Labs Inc. with a contract to install and demonstrate satellite-based next-generation wireless communications tracking, security and...

[Satellite Today 12-12-08] The Space Foundation has certified three GMV space products: insightArthroVR, Moviloc, and SAGRAN, as certified space technologies, GMV announced Dec. 10.     The Space Foundation’s space certification...

[Satellite News 12-12-08] President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is considering what it calls, “not-yet-refined technology,” which includes solar energy-collecting satellites, as part of its energy plan, according to the administration’s...

[Satellite Today 12-11-08] DataPath has received a $3.6 million order from the U.S. Army to continue resets, repairs and upgrades to its Satellite Transportable Terminals (STT) used in the U.S....