Government/Military

Sea Launch recently announced that the failure review oversight board (FROB) issued its final summary report of findings on May 31, following its review of the investigation into the cause of the January 31, 2013 failed launch attempt of the Intelsat 27 satellite.

MDA Information Systems (MDA-IS) has received research funds from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, extensible, open source platform for data processing, archiving and dissemination.

A technical issue forced the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to postpone the launch of the country’s first navigation satellite.

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Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a logical extrapolation of terrestrial antenna-based ADS-B and may be the only way to use this surveillance technology in oceanic, mountainous, or extremely remote areas.

Jon Kirchner, president and chief operating officer of GeoOptics, a satellite-based environmental data services company, addressed the U.S. Congress on how to change the way the government acquires essential data for severe and day-to-day weather forecasting.

Planetary Resources, a private asteroid-mining company, has unveiled its plans for a new space telescope that would be available to the public.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company, announced it has signed a CA$10.8 million ($10.4 million) contract with Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND)

NASA has been discussing potential cooperation with Europe for the development of space technologies that will enable future missions.

The launch of the next Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM for the U.S. military has been delayed one full day after a technical problem impeded the scheduled liftoff on May 23.