Government/Military

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the second of two payloads that will be hosted on government-owned satellites to bring protected, extremely high frequency (EHF) communications to users in the North […]

AIS Engineering has been awarded a Custom Satellite Solutions Small Business (CS2SB) task order to provide U.S., Europe, Southwest Asia and Horn of Africa Ku-Band services for deployable communications. The […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket carrying the second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 2) satellite for the U.S. Navy lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at […]

Planners at the Pentagon are said to be concerned that costs of the future GPS 3 system could become unattainable, despite its major advances and the need to have updated spacecraft ready to replace the current satellites in orbit.

TeleCommunication Systems has received $3.2 million in incremental funding from the U.S. Army for equipment, field services support and maintenance.

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use satellite technology in its mission to review the country’s electoral boundaries and constituencies.

Inmarsat has announced the successful demonstration of its L-TACTM service on-the-move in vehicles at speeds up to 70 mph.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are in talks for building a satellite together.

The Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) has confirmed that its micro satellite, Pico Dragon, will be shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in early August.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and the president of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Seung Jo Kim, met in Washington D.C. on July 29.

Findings of a recent report by the U.S. Air Force reveal that satellites and the entire U.S. space enterprise system are currently at risk from increased space debris, extreme weather and cyber attacks.

Inmarsat and Arianespace confirmed the successful launch of ESA’s Alphasat.

Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corporation are in competition to build the replacement Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Space scientists at the University of Calgary have a principal role in the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm mission, a triple-satellite mission created to better understand Earth’s magnetic field, including the weakening of our planet’s protective “shield” against cosmic radiation

ORBCOMM announced that its globaltrak division has completed the shipment of its fuel monitoring system, which is designed to prevent theft of mission-critical fuel used by U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

A 200-year-old shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Texas, where archeologists have launched a high-tech salvage operation

Armed with only a team of student volunteers and a workspace in his mother’s backyard, 28-year-old Chris Nsamba has set out to build and launch Uganda’s first space observer.

Astrium has recently signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the South Korean space agency.

SatCam hopes to take user-submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting, while giving users an added bonus.

Brazil and Argentina have joined an international effort to provide data and to help prevent an ocean color data gap, which occurred after the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) mission failed in 1986.

Astrium Satellites and Thales Alenia Space have been declared the winners of an €800 million contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense. The recent announcement names Astrium as the lead contractor for the Falcon Eye program, a UAE defense initiative responsible for managing next-generation military surveillance satellites.

NASA and NOAA are using GPS to better forecast the ferocity of hurricane and tropical cyclone winds.

Eumetsat announced that Calibration and Validation (cal/val) activities concluded after the final Product Validation Review Board (PVRB) meeting declared the IASI Level 2 (L2) products derived from Metop B operational.

Following integration of its full payload stack, the heavy-lift Ariane 5 is now complete in preparation for its July 25 launch.

For the first time, mobile users, including military troops and border patrol agents, will soon be able to use secure voice and data on the move

Thales Alenia Space has delivered its second pressurized cargo module (PCM) to Orbital Sciences Corp. for integration in the Cygnus spacecraft that will transport cargo to the International Space Station.

The SPOT 6, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite designed, built and operated by Astrium has been qualified by the Joint Research Center (JRC) to take part in the MARS-CAP program run by the European Commission.

Students at Teikyo University in Japan are building a slime-mold–housing micro-satellite to orbit the Earth.

Flying 400 km above the planet and circling it every 90 minutes, the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) provides a unique vantage point of the earth using satellites to assist emergency responders.

After a meeting between European space ministers gave the approval to Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle, the ESA plans to consult with the satellite industry to gather competing ideas on key work packages for the new launch system.