Government/Military

[Satellite Today – 4-23-08] The European Parliament has given its backing to Galileo’s deployment phase, which paves the way for the European satellite radio navigation system to be operational by...

[Satellite Today – 4-23-08] NASA has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Inc. a $116.3 million contract to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft, NASA announced April 22....

[Satellite Today – 4-23-08] NASA has awarded Space Explorations Technologies (SpaceX) a launch services contract that could be worth up to $1 billion, NASA announced April 22.     The indefinite...

[Satellite Today – 4-22-08] DataPath Inc. will supply its MaxView network management system to ITT Corp. for use on a U.S. Army communications system, DataPath announced April 22.     Under...

[Satellite Today – 4-22-08] AOS Inc. has added satellite-based products and services from Vizada to AOS’s U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) schedule, AOS announced April 21.     AOS, based in...

[Satellite News – 4-21-08] The European Space Agency (ESA) is prepared to take the lead in Earth observation after awarding a pair of satellites for the Global Monitoring for Environment...

[Satellite Today – 4-21-08] The U.S. Army exercised a $5.5 million contract option for continued production of the Joint IP Modem (JIPM), Globecomm Systems Inc. announced April 21.     In...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] EADS Astrium has been appointed the prime contractor to lead a European consortium to develop and build the Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellite for the European Space...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Raytheon Co. has won a $61 million contract to complete the development and certification of next-generation global positioning receivers for the U.S. Air Force, Raytheon announced...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) has been launched and the first signals successfully acquired, the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) announced...