Government/Military

Bangabandhu Satellite 1 Passes Critical Design Review, Advances Toward Launch The Bangabandhu Satellite 1 program has successfully passed its Critical Design Review (CDR), which took place with Thales Alenia Space […]

U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles System Center has awarded Orbital ATK a contract to provide payload integration and support services for Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6). The multipurpose […]

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has delivered a Space GPS Receiver (SGR-20) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to be integrated as part of the pointing control system for NASA’s […]

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., defended intervening in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program because he didn’t want the program, and its potential […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions announced that the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA), an international telecommunications hub in the Eastern Mediterranean, has selected Kratos’ end-to-end network management suite of products to […]

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently signed a Global Positioning System (GPS) sustainment agreement that will ensure the navigation capabilities millions of military and commercial users relied upon remain […]

As part of the EU SatCom Market framework contract, which the European Defense Agency (EDA) recently awarded to Airbus Defence and Space, the company is delivering satellite communications systems for […]

Advantech Wireless has received a multi-million dollar contract from an unnamed NATO-member country to provide its ruggedized military-grade satcom terminals, including the new advanced line of Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based Solid […]

Airbus Defence and Space has delivered a propulsion test module to NASA for the Orion program. The Propulsion Qualification Test Model (PQM) will be used to check that the Orion […]

Raytheon has completed factory acceptance testing of the flight operations system for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). With seven times the light-collecting power of its predecessor, the Hubble Space […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geostationary (GEO) Flight 3 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first image taken by Harris’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard their next-generation weather satellite. The image taken […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] The United States government will likely remain the largest purchaser of commercial satellite services as global military tensions rise. With a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Airbus Defence and Space has won a contract to supply satellite communication systems for UGAP, the French public procurement agency. This four-year contract covers the supply of […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] The Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DISA-DITCO) has awarded a Commercial Satellite Communication (ComSatCom) Transponded Capacity (CTC) task order to UltiSat to provide […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] Thuraya Telecommunications has donated new supplies of emergency telecommunication equipment to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the decade-old Emergency Telecommunications support arrangement. This donation aims to […]

[Via Satellite 01-12-2016] France’s government space agency, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has signed a framework agreement with the French Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Maritime Affairs (MEEM) […]

[Via Satellite 01-09-2016] Commercial satcom vendors will not stand to lose as the U.S., the largest Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) fleet operator, is poised to adopt a more aggressive global […]

[Via Satellite 01-09-2016] Norsat International, a provider of communication solutions for remote applications, has received a $3.3 million order for its Globetrekker 2.0 portable satellite terminals from an unnamed U.S. […]

[Via Satellite 12-29-2016] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received a $17.5 million Command, Control and Communications (C3) single award contract from a United States national security related government agency, […]

[Via Satellite 12-23-2016] ExactEarth has signed a contract with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), to provide satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services […]

[Via Satellite 12-23-2016] Hughes Network Systems has introduced a new product to its suite of HughesON ActiveTechnologies, which transform ordinary broadband connections into fast, application-aware, enterprise-grade Wide Area Networks (WANs). […]

[Via Satellite 12-23-2016] The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Company a $37 million contract to demonstrate new satellite communications technology that will continuously link tactical users with military leaders […]

[Via Satellite 12-21-2016] DataPath has been selected as the sole prime provider of satellite communications support services under the U.S. Army’s Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems (GTACS) contract. The award […]

[Via Satellite 12-13-2016] The 5G Infrastructure Association has elected Christine Leurquin, vice president of institutional relations and communications at SES, to the association’s board. As part of the 5G Infrastructure […]

[Via Satellite 12-13-2016] The U.S. Air Force approved Lockheed Martin‘s design to upgrade the current GPS satellite ground control system with new capabilities that will enable it to operate more […]

[Via Satellite 12-12-2016] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service has awarded McMurdo, a part of Orolia Group, a $6.67 million contract. McMurdo […]

[Via Satellite 12-12-2016] UltiSat, a provider of managed network services, has appointed Dan Morris as senior director of government services. Morris will oversee efforts to expand the company’s work with […]

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[Via Satellite 12-06-2016] Aero-Satcom, the joint venture between Eclipse and NSSLGlobal, has signed an agreement with Inmarsat’s global government business unit that appoints Aero-Satcom as a Global Xpress (GX) Value […]