Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 09-02-10] NASA has extended its Space Program Operations contract with United Space Alliance (ULA) to remain active through the end of March 2011, the agency announced Sept. 1. […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-02-10] The U.S. Department of Defense issued a $219.4 million contract to Honeywell International to supply systems, maintenance engineering and other services for an Air Force Satellite Control […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-02-10] Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe has awarded $301 million in development contracts for the WorldView-3 satellite to Ball Aerospace & Technologies and ITT Corp., DigitalGlobe announced Sept. 1. […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-01-10] ITT Corp. received a subcontract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to continue building the imaging system for GeoEye’s next-generation Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, ITT announced Aug. 31.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-01-10] Harris Corp. has received a $9.5 million contract from Elbit Systems to provide engineering services to support the Australian Department of Defense’s (ADF) Land 200 communications modernization […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-01-10] Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and NASA have conducted a cold-temperature ground test of the second Ares five-segment Development Motor (DM-2), ATK announced Aug. 31.     Initial test data […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-31-10] Raytheon subsidiary Raytheon Technical Services Co. (RTSC) signed a deal with NASA to support facilities and operations for astronaut training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Sonny […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-31-10] Technology and strategic consulting services and solutions provider SRA International has won a military task order under the U.S. General Services Administration’s mission-oriented business integrated services contract, […]

[Satellite News 08-31-10] The U.S. Military’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency 1 (AEHF 1) satellite, which experienced a main engine shut down shortly after its initial orbit burn on Aug. 30, […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-31-10] GPS 2F-SV1, the first of 12 Boeing-built U.S. Air Force Block 2F satellites, has entered service, Boeing announced Aug. 30.     The Air Force’s GPS Wing transferred […]

[Satellite News 08-30-10] The Obama administration has completed a Category 7 U.S. Munitions List review of tanks and military vehicles, which determined that about 74 percent of the 12,000 military […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-30-10] L-3 GCS was awarded contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to provide Panther VSAT manpack satellite communications systems and associated equipment to support communications for […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-27-10] General Dynamics Satcom Technologies received an $80 million contract from Harris Corp. to design, manufacture and install six new 16-meter antennas and upgrade four 9-meter satellite communications […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-26-10] Thrane & Thrane has added the Aviator 200 system to its connectivity product line for the aeronautical sector, the company announced Aug. 24.     The Aviator 200 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-26-10] In response to our recent Satellite TODAY poll, “Is President Obama’s new National Space Policy good or bad for the satellite industry?” a 46 percent majority of […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-25-10] Boeing has received a contract from Intelsat to provide a second ultra-high frequency (UHF) hosted payload on the IS-27 satellite, Boeing announced Aug. 24.     The payload […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-25-10] China has successfully launched its Tian Hui-1 stereo-topographic mapping satellite on a Long March 2D rockey from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China Aerospace Science and Technology […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, designed to map Earth’s gravitational field, has experienced a software glitch that has […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] German start-up communications company TakWak GmbH has received 2.5 million Euros ($3.1 million) in financing from the European Space Agency’s Open Sky Technologies Fund to develop a […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to build a wireless small-satellite network to provide a scalable set of open standard technologies, the agency […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The U.S. Air Force issued Boeing a $182 million contract to build the seventh Wideband Global Satcom satellite, WGS-7, the Pentagon announced Aug. 20.      Boeing has […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-20-10] Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Army to provide encryption devices that will upgrade communications security of the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-20-10] NASA and ATK will conduct a full-scale test of a five-segment, first-stage solid rocket motor on Aug. 31 at the ATK Aerospace Systems test facility in Promontory, […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-18-10] Nevion, a video transport solution provider, has helped NASA transport stereo 3-D video of two space shuttle launches in real time, Nevion announced Aug. 17.      The […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-18-10] The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), with help Boeing and Iridium Communications, has implemented a space-based system to monitor the Earth’s space environment, the APL […]

The third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) military communications satellite, WGS-3, has entered service for the U.S. Air Force, completing the military’s Block 1 constellation, designed to deliver improved broadband communications […]

In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-17-10] Intelsat has began construction of the Intelsat 27 (IS-27) satellite that will include a UHF hosted payload for government applications, the company announced Aug. 16.      The […]

Inmarsat Navigation Ventures Ltd. received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and certify a transceiver terminal for the Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), […]

NASA‘s first microsatellite, Fastsat, has arrived at Kodiak Island, Alaska, from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to begin final launch preparations with Orbital Sciences, the agency announced Aug. 12.     […]