Government/Military

[Via Satellite 01-31-2014] Inmarsat Government has announced that its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Software Defined Radio (SDR) waveform received Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliance certification from the Joint Tactical […]

[Via Satellite 01-31-2014] Comtech Telecommunications announced that its subsidiary Comtech EF Data Corp. has been awarded a $3.1 million order from a government systems integrator for DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier powered DMD2050E […]

[Via Satellite 01-30-2014] Galileo, the EU satellite navigation program, and Copernicus, the EU Earth monitoring program, will soon establish Europe’s own satellite navigation system. With the launch of six additional […]

In January 2013, five companies — Eutelsat America, Intelsat General, Telesat, XTAR and SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) — submitted a white paper to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) […]

Military strategies for procuring commercial satellite capabilities are designed to provide the best resources possible to the warfighter. This process is complicated, however, and requires expertise from both the commercial […]

[Via Satellite 01-27-2014] Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS L). As the fifth Boeing-built satellite to join NASA’s space communications network, […]

[Via Satellite 01-24-2014] The United States Air Force is nearing the point of making a decision regarding its competition to provide the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T), which […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2014] Inmarsat Government has finalized its agreement to be a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Inmarsat Global Xpress. As a cleared company under a proxy agreement with the […]

[Via Satellite 01-14-2014] Lockheed Martin has begun the first system test of the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for the U.S. Navy. Engineers and technicians recently mated its […]

[Via Satellite 01-22-2014] ATK has deployed its Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) MegaFlex solar array under a NASA contract to further the development of a high-power system for future manned and […]

[Via Satellite 01-21-2104] Gilat Satellite Networks will supply satellite equipment and services to the Israeli government through a tender won by Gilat Satcom. Over the next three years, Gilat Satcom will supply fixed […]

[Via Satellite 01-17-2014] Ed Spitler, president of Astrium Services Government (now part of the Airbus group) had one main point to get across at the Washington Space Business Roundtable: Lowest […]

[Via Satellite 01-16-2014] GATR Technologies’ recent $440 million contract comes as a sizeable purchase for the government to make while still dealing with the effect of sequestration. While budget cuts […]

[Via Satellite 01-15-2014] Encompass Government Solutions has announced that O’Brien McKinley has joined the company as vice president of business development. McKinley will focus on enhancing the company’s relationships within […]

[Via Satellite – 01-15-2014] Boeing’s Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has helped the U.S. Air Force reduce satellite loss by 66 percent by detecting potential threats more quickly and allowing […]

[Via Satellite 01-14-2014] As part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Small Cutter Connectivity (SCC) program, KVH Industries has surpassed the 100-vessel mark in its 10-year contract to supply the next-generation […]

[Via Satellite 01-14-2014] As part of its ninth Block IV full-rate fiscal year 2012 production contract, Raytheon has transported the 3,000th Tomahawk Block IV missile to the U.S. Navy. The […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2014] Harris Corporation has received $21 million in orders from a NATO country for its Falcon multiband tactical radios. The orders were received during the second quarter of […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2014] Boeing completed the second of two anti-jamming technology demonstrations that, for the first time, used an existing military satellite. The demonstration follows a successful transmission of data […]

[Via Satellite 01-10-2014] Comtech Systems, the Fla.-based subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, has received a $4.4 million contract for satellite products. The Brazilian Military provided the award for an upgrade to […]

[Via Satellite 01-10-2014] Ball Aerospace has handed over operational control of the Space Test Program Satellite 3 (STPSat 3) to the United States Air Force as the spacecraft begins its […]

[Via Satellite 01-09-2014] Lockheed Martin will continue tracking and sharing data on orbiting space assets and debris through a $3.9 million contract from the United States Air Force Life Cycle […]

[Via Satellite 01-08-2014] The European Space Agency’s (ESA) billion-star surveyor Gaia is now in its operational orbit at Lagrange point 2 (L2), a gravitationally stable virtual point located 1.5 million […]

[Via Satellite 01-08-2014] The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded NovaWurks with a $30.8 million Phoenix project contract with options for an additional $11.8 million that if exercised, […]

[Via Satellite 1-3-2014] EADS, as part of the company’s restructuring, has started the new year with its official rebranding as Airbus Group. Uniting all its activities under a single and […]

[Via Satellite 1-2-2014] Iran is preparing to launch domestically designed and manufactured satellites in the beginning of Feb. 2014. According to Hamid Fazeli, deputy head of the Iran Space Agency […]

[Via Satellite 12-31-13] Space debris is a serious problem for satellite operators. The growing number of current and anticipated satellites has compounded the issue, as no universal standard of behavior […]

[Via Satellite 12-31-13] Andrew Ruszkowski has been named chief commercial officer at XTAR. In the newly created position, Ruszkowski will continue to support XTAR’s fleet development to sustain current and […]

[Via Satellite 12-31-13] United Arab Emirates (UAE) prime minister and VP Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that the UAE will launch its first locally-constructed satellite in 2017. The […]

[Via Satellite 12-31-13] China has put into service its high-definition Earth observation (EO) satellite Gaofen 1. The satellite was launched on April 26, 2013 using a Long March 2D rocket. […]