Government/Military

[Via Satellite 05-08-2014] Lockheed Martin finished building the propulsion module for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO 4) vehicle. The module will maneuver the satellite during...

[Via Satellite 05-07-2014] Earlier this year and in a key shot in the arm for the hosted payload industry, Satmex, owned by Eutelsat Communications, signed an agreement with Raytheon and...

[Via Satellite 05-07-2014] Lockheed Martin received two large modules for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES R) at its cleanroom near Denver, Colo. The...

[Via Satellite 05-06-2014] Lockheed Martin completed an analysis of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites during the U.S. Navy’s 2014 Ice Exercise (ICEX), and showed that the satellites provided...

[Via Satellite 05-05-2014] NASA has signed an agreement with the French Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to build, launch and control the world’s first global spacecraft for the purpose of...

Much of the satellite communications (satcom) capability the United States military uses today is provided by commercial satellites. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reports that the U.S. Department...

The United States military is seeking to curtail its spending, but its need for greater bandwidth is increasing, not unlike the commercial sector. SES Government Solutions provides commercial satellite services...

[Via Satellite 05-02-2014] Neptec Design Group received a $1.35 million add-on contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to continue work on Canada’s contribution to Astro H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s...

[Via Satellite 05-01-2014] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has granted five contracts to the Canadian industry to perform studies on five potential microsatellite missions. The missions would address needs in...

[Via Satellite 04-30-2014] Ball Aerospace celebrated the eighth anniversary of its on-orbit operations for the CloudSat spacecraft and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Earth science satellite. Ball...