Government/Military

Startup company Pocket Spacecraft recently created a Kickstarter campaign to offer the public a chance to send small disc satellites into space.

U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology is no stranger to delivering small satellite missions, in fact, since the company’s birth in 1981, it has already launched 41 of such spacecraft.

In the search for clues about the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire in Arizona, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies turned to NOAA’s GOES 15 satellite

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS Russian government navigation satellites exploded Tuesday morning only moments after being launched

Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, successfully completed its crowd funding campaign yesterday to launch ARKYD in 2015

ISRO launched India's first navigation satellite. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C22) took off at 11:41 p.m. from the Satish Dawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

The U.S. Air Force has taken delivery of the third Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) satellite payload as part of its Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP signed a contract for the collaborative design and development of the Kazak Science and Technology satellite system

UTC Aerospace Systems announced that the ORS 1 satellite has celebrated its second anniversary in space. ORS 1, the first Operationally Responsive Space satellite specifically designed to support combatant command operations was launched from Wallops Island Flight Facility aboard a Minotaur 1 launch vehicle on June 29, 2011

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP signed a contract for the collaborative design and development of the Kazak Science and Technology satellite system