Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force, the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Geospatial information services provider GeoEye signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers...

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Lockheed Martin has completed a System Design Review (SDR) on-schedule for the GPS 3B satellite increment under the U.S. Air Force‘s next generation GPS 3 program, the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist Track24 has unveiled a new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) solution, the company announced July 5....

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The Stanislaus County government in California has contracted DigitalGlobe to provide its Precision Aerial Imagery to allow the county government to monitor changes and manage projects, DigitalGlobe...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The U.S. Air Force Space Command has named Apogee Engineering a prime contractor to provide engineering and communications support services for the U.S. GPS operations center in...

[Satellite News 07-05-11] RapidEye CEO Wolfgang Biedermann filed for Germany’s equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after its financial sponsors felt the privately owned imagery firm’s overall debt...

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] The European Space Agency (ESA) has recovered a four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss by using “an unorthodox, dirty hack,” the agency announced July 1.    The...

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] GTX Corp., a real-time, two-way GPS tracking and personal location services provider, has crossed the 1 million-download milestone mark for its GPS Tracking Apps through Apple and...

  Cisco’s Internet Router in Space (IRIS) initiative and hosted payloads have been big discussions in recent years, particularly in terms of how they could shape future government and military...