Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 09-22-11] The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite was declared fully operational following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all systems, the spacecraft’s bus manufacturer ATK...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-21-11] China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC) has received its first contract in Europe to build a communications satellite for Belarus using its Dongfanghong-4 satellite platform and...

[Satellite TODAY 10-21-11] Astrium Services signed a three-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver satellite images under the terms of the European Global Monitoring for Environment and...

[Satellite TODAY 09-20-11] ATK has delivered the first two A2100 composite satellite structures and the first ship set of propellant tanks for the GPS 3 satellites Lockheed Martin is building...

[Satellite TODAY 09-20-11] Raytheon has fielded the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T) satellite communications solution to the U.S. armed services, the company...

[Satellite TODAY 09-19-11] The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved $500 million in funding for commercial spaceflight as part of NASA’s 2012 budget, NASA confirmed Sept. 15.    The funding will...

[Satellite TODAY 09-19-11] ViaSat has received a delivery order for approximately $27.6 million in Multifunctional Information Distribution System – Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) for the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare...

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-11] Gilat Satellite Networks subsidiary Spacenet Integrated Government Solutions (SIGS) received the third in a series of new FCSA ComSatCom contract vehicles to offer its products and services...

[Satellite News 09-15-11] A massive solar “superstorm” could endanger, and potentially kill, several weather, telecommunications, and military satellites in less than a year, according to a Space Weather research report...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-15-11] The first two Astrium-built Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites were accepted by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of a quality acceptance review – marking...