Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) tabbed five science instruments for the first mission joint instrument to Mars, the agencies announced Aug. 2.      The ExoMars […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-10] China placed the fifth satellite in its planned satellite navigation and positioning network into orbit, Xinhua announced Aug. 1.      The satellite, part of China’s Beidou, or […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Astrium won a contract worth 55.2 million euros ($72 million) from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) to manufacture and launch an Earth observation optical […]

[Satellite News 08-03-10] 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 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Orbital Sciences has been selected by NASA as the prime contractor under the Sounding Rocket Operations Contract 2 (NSROC 2) program, the company announced July 30.     […]

While organizations such as the Space Foundation focus their education efforts on younger students and their teachers, the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), puts its focus into the university […]

It’s not often that I have the time these days to write stories. But, the chance to collaborate with Associate Editor Mark Holmes on our two-part education series provided me […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] Russian Space Systems (RSS) has delivered the first of three Glonass-M satellites to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev announced July 28.     Khrunichev has begun testing […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) received an additional $1 million in funding from the U.S. Army for support equipment and maintenance of secret and non-secure IP router access point […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] DigitalGlobe has opened up a call for proposals for its 8-band Research Challenge — a contest designed to encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution imagery can […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] CapRock Government Solutions has hired William Janosky as director of its Information Assurance product division, the company announced July 27.     Janosky will be responsible for upgrading […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] Harris Corp. has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide design, development, manufacturing, testing and sustainment of space communications systems and equipment to NASA under its […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] The U.S. Army awarded ViaSat with the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract July 22 to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation tracking system intended to […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has extended its contract with MDA to provide surveillance operations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) supporting its forces deployed in Afghanistan, MDA […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] 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 […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] Hughes Network Systems has completed a demonstration of its commercial-off-the-shelf-(COTS)-based advanced airborne video solution to an unnamed government agency, the company announced July 26.     The demonstration, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] ITT Corp.’s GPS 3 navigation payload has passed a U.S. Air Force critical design review for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) in support of the GPS-3 program, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] GPS 2F satellite manufacturer Boeing said a claim made by DLR, Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space, that the U.S. Air Force GPS 2F satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] The U.K. Space Agency has unveiled a one-year pilot program to design and launch miniature, cube-shaped satellites to test and research new space technologies, the agency announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed integration and performance testing of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) that will fly aboard NASA‘s National Preparatory Project (NPP) weather satellite, […]

[Satellite News 07-23-10] Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said his company plans to file an appeal with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-10] The U.S. Army selected ViaSat as the winner of the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) program contract over Comtech Mobile Datacom, the competitors announced in separate statements […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-10]  Canadian satellite company MDA has been awarded a contract to provide four advanced technology solutions to EADS Astrium for integration on Astra satellites, MDA announced July 21. […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-10]  NASA has awarded ASRC Management Services its Multi-Disciplinary Engineering and Technology Services 2 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide a variety of support services for the agency’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee unanimously approved the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which allows the U.S. government to employ the commercial space sector […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10]  U.S. Air Force Space Command and Space and Missile Systems Center officials confirmed that the on-orbit checkout of its first GPS 2F satellite is progressing as scheduled […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] Cisco’s Space-router technology has passed a U.S. Department of Defense satellite-orbit test for use of next-generation satellite-based IP services and communications from space, the company announced July […]

[Satellite News 07-21-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom expects the U.S. Army to announce its multi-year $200 million Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) contract winner by end of the month, and one […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris Corp. a 10-year, $130 million contract to supply antennas and control systems for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom expects the U.S. Army’s multi-year Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) contract, valued at more than $200 million, to be awarded by the end of […]