Government/Military

A technical issue forced the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to postpone the launch of the country’s first navigation satellite.

Show season is in full swing and after SATELLITE 2013 and NAB, we look forward to CommunicAsia, the biggest event of its kind in its region. Given the size of […]

Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a logical extrapolation of terrestrial antenna-based ADS-B and may be the only way to use this surveillance technology in oceanic, mountainous, or extremely remote areas.

Jon Kirchner, president and chief operating officer of GeoOptics, a satellite-based environmental data services company, addressed the U.S. Congress on how to change the way the government acquires essential data for severe and day-to-day weather forecasting.

Planetary Resources, a private asteroid-mining company, has unveiled its plans for a new space telescope that would be available to the public.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company, announced it has signed a CA$10.8 million ($10.4 million) contract with Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND)

NASA has been discussing potential cooperation with Europe for the development of space technologies that will enable future missions.

The launch of the next Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM for the U.S. military has been delayed one full day after a technical problem impeded the scheduled liftoff on May 23.

As Google is considering buying map-software provider Waze, a bidding war could possibly arise between the search engine giant and Facebook, the social media giant.

High Throughput Satellites have been making headlines in the mainstream media recently and are positioned to be a real “game changer” serving the military and end users, said David Hartshorn, secretary general of GVF during a HTS roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C.

As satellite communications technologies evolve and new applications become available for the intelligence community, military and private sector business, new operational and engineering challenges also emerge in both the space segment and a range of ground segment environments.

Ecuador’s first satellite launched last month has unfortunately crashed with debris from an old Russian rocket.

One of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) main weather satellite, GOES-13, experienced problems with its imaging equipment on late Tuesday, May 21.

The U.S. House has decided to block any future contracts with China, affecting the recently signed Department of Defense agreement with a Chinese satellite company.

United Launch Alliance Launches 70th Successful Mission in 77 Months with the Launch of the GPS IIF-4 Satellite for the U.S. Air Force.

United Launch Alliance Launches 70th Successful Mission in 77 Months with the Launch of the GPS IIF-4 Satellite for the U.S. Air Force.

A Chinese rocket launched on Monday has raised concerns in the United States over the possibility of an anti-satellite missile test.

Image credit: Gogo [Satellite TODAY 05-15-13] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted in-flight connectivity provider GoGo a blanket license to operate up to 1,000 Ku-band satellite aircraft for […]

NASA is currently mulling potential uses for the two spy satellite telescopes that it received as a donation from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last year.

Forty years ago NASA launched Skylab, America’s first space station. As part of an initiative to reuse the hardware the agency developed to land on the moon, the station was launched into orbit on May 14, 1973 on board one of the last Saturn V rockets.

Europe has inaugurated its newest Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) service center.

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-13] Gigasat has announced the signing of a contract with the New Zealand Ministry of Defense. This new deal is for the supply of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certified […]

Tags: Drone, Prototype, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Publication: NationalGeographic.com Publication Date: 05/02/2013 The half-inch drone could be used for environmental monitoring or pollination of crops. Image credit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab Researchers […]

In-orbit servicing provider ViviSat has unveiled a highly agile hosted payload capability that aims to supplement its life extension services. ViviSat uses the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), manufactured its parent […]

The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) has selected Janet Nickloy, director of Aerospace Mission Solutions for Harris Corporation, as its 2013 chair. The HPA fosters dialogue between the government and the […]

Aireon LLC, developer of the first satellite-based global air traffic surveillance system, has announced a long-term commercial data services contract with Nav Canada. Aireon will use the hosted payload space […]

Yahsat has selected Astrium Services Government to offer Yahsat’s Military Ka-band service to the U.S. government. The service will allow any U.S. government or Department of Defense end user to […]

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), which signed a strategic commercial agreement to use Arabsat’s new BADR-7 satellite earlier this year, could look to do further hosted payload deals in the near […]

I always thought PowerPoint presentations were fairly innocuous and really just a way of stimulating debate, but it seems a presentation that Kay Sears gave in 2007 was a key […]

Tags: LandSat, USGS, NASA, Google, Satellite Imagery Publication: NBCNews.com Publication Date: 05/09/2013 To access the interactive map, click on the image. Google, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME […]