National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking for more vendors for commercial radio occultation data, according to a recent request for information. NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) is conducting market research to on-ramp additional vendors to the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) multiple award vendor pool.  The administration currently has two commercial providers…

BlueHalo recently demonstrated its multi-band Badger satellite terminal for U.S. Space Force officials. BlueHalo successfully demonstrated target tracking and processing of signals using the multi-band software defined antenna tiles on its Badger product.  The software-defined tile is a scalable phased array solution that BlueHalo says simplifies mission operations through agile and re-configurable beam-forming tiles. The…

The United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) announced Monday that it has signed an MoU with OneWeb to work together on Position, Timing and Navigation (PNT) capabilities in the company’s second-generation satellite constellation. NPL is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom. It sets and maintains physical standards for British industry. The announcement was…

Next year, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) plans to buy military satellite communications (SATCOM) data from Luxembourg’s Medium Earth Orbit Global Services (MGS) program, which gives Luxembourg access to SES's O3b mPOWER constellation. “The United States is going to buy the satcom service from Luxembourg,” Barbara Baker, SSC’s deputy program executive officer…