Government/Military

[Satellite News 06-10-10] On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-08-10] Australian Satellite Communications (ASC) and satellite equipment manufacturer Cobham Satcom have launched the ReadyConnect portable emergency response solution, which aims to provide quick-deploy voice, video, private networks […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-08-10] Lockheed Martin unveiled the Tactical Digital Assistant (TDA), a ruggedized, tactical handheld device developed for dismounted soldiers in battle, the company announced June 8.      The TDA […]

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marian Blakey said her organization is “encouraged” by space-related provisions included in the U.S. Fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress on May 27. […]

Globecomm has received a $7.9 million increase in the total value of a four-year contract from an unnamed U.S. government prime contractor, the company announced May 26.     Globecomm will […]

[Satellite News 06-07-10] Former CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has found a new position at XTAR as its president and COO, responsible for the growth and strategic direction of XTAR’s global […]

Harris Corp. has received a $55 million delivery order for advanced satellite terminals under the U.S. Army‘s Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program, the company announced May 26.     Harris […]

Tachyon Networks has completed in-flight testing of its new ATR-9300 airborne terminal for the mobile coms-on-the-move (COTM) market and ISR applications, the company announced May 25.     Tachyon said it […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-08-10] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Friday’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has boosted the agency’s confidence that a resupply vehicle will be available after the Space […]

Northrop Grumman has completed flight-testing of an airborne satellite communications system installed on a modified business jet aircraft to connect with a WGS via the Ka-band link, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-08-10] The roll-out of South Korea’s Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) has been delayed due to an unexpected technical glitch, according to a statement by South Korean officials, […]

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been awarded a $1.8 million contract extension with the U.S. Department of Defense to continue providing managed bandwidth services for fixed satellite terminal sites supporting U.S. […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-08-10] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a 10-year indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contract to Harris Corp. as part of a Boeing-led team to provide a comprehensive […]

Lockheed Martin has delivered a UHF satellite communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program, the company announced April 29.   […]

What do the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Nashville’s floods, California’s wild fires, vegetation stress and military intelligence operations in Afghanistan have in common? According to DigitalGlobe Vice President of […]

Iridium Communications has established a U.S. government advisory board to counsel the company on products and services for federal and state civilian, defense, intelligence and law enforcement customers, Iridium announced […]

OHB-System AG, part of OHB Technology AG, won contracts under the E-SGA (Europeanization of Satellite-Based Reconnaissance) program to operate ground stations that will provide greater access to information gathered by […]

Vizada Networks won a contract expansion with the Norwegian Defense Logistics Organization (NDLO) which will enter the company into a new framework agreement to supply commercial satellite capacity and additional […]

On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy to supply connectivity […]

Former CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has found a new position at XTAR as president and COO, responsible for the growth and strategic direction of Xtar’s global X-band business as well […]

[Satellite News 06-07-10] DigitalGlobe Vice President of U.S. Defense Sales Steve Wood recently secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Via Satellite magazine’s June 2010 Military E-Newsletter features an interview with former CapRock CTO and new Xtar President and COO Philip Harlow, a detailed look into the […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) appointed S. Ramakrishnan director of its liquid propulsion systems center, the organization announced June 2.      Ramakrishnan previously served as projects […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marian Blakey said her organization is “encouraged” by space-related provisions included in the U.S. Fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has left the company to join Xtar LLC as president and COO, Xtar announced June 2.     Harlow succeeds Denis Curtin, who is […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Orbit Technologies won a contract to supply its systems for tracking low orbiting civilian imagery satellites to an unnamed Israeli satellite imaging company, Orbit announced June 2. […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) has been awarded a $200,000 contract to provide S-band ranging service to the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for its Communications, Ocean and […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] DigitalGlobe has secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), DigitalGlobe announced June 1.     CES, launched by DigitalGlobe […]

A working document from the European Parliament assesses the mid-term status of the European Union’s satellite navigation program, which consists of a geostationary system called EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-01-10] Russian Space Systems Corp. (RSSC) and the U.S. Trimble Navigation Group have signed an agreement to create Rusnavgeoset Co., a joint satellite navigation venture in Russia, RSSC […]