Government/Military

[Via Satellite 05-05-2016] Boeing, prime contractor for the U.S. Air Force’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system, has been working on a series of improvements to make the government-operated system more...

[Via Satellite 05-05-2016] The U.K. Space Agency and the National Center for Earth Observation (NCEO) are funding a project called the U.K. Climate Data from Space (CDS) computing zone to...

[Via Satellite 05-40-2016] Satellites will play a vital role in ensuring the agreements reached last year at the COP21 Paris Climate Conference are followed through, but more are needed, according...

[Via Satellite 04-28-2016] Azercosmos is a rapidly evolving satellite operator, having not only brought significant business to its first telecommunications satellite, Azerspace 1, but also having teamed with Airbus Defence...

[Via Satellite 04-29-2016] A new international defense and intelligence customer has signed a letter of intent with DigitalGlobe to have direct access capacity on the operator’s WorldView 4 satellite. The...

[Via Satellite 04-28-2016] The U.S. Air Force has awarded SpaceX an $82.7 million firm-fixed price, standalone contract to launch a GPS 3 satellite, marking the first competitively sourced National Security...

[Via Satellite 04-28-2016] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced it will cease its efforts to restore the ailing X-ray Astronomy Satellite Astro H (Hitomi). Based on most of...

[Via Satellite 04-27-2016] General John Hyten, commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command, has released a statement regarding the current policy debate over whether or not the U.S. government should...

[Via Satellite 04-27-2016] Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., have signed a letter from the Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) and sent it to Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force...

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency-Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DISA-DITCO) has awarded a Comsatcom Transponded Capacity (CTC) task order to UltiSat to provide Ku bandwidth capacity...