Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 11-29-10] China launched the Zhongxing 20A satellite on a Long March 3A rocket Nov. 25 from the Xichang Space Center, Chinese officials announced.     The rocket delivered the...

[Satellite TODAY 11-25-10] Commercial aerospace services provider Astrotech Corp. has won a fully-funded task order under the U.S. Department of Defense’s $35 million Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery,...

[Satellite TODAY 11-24-10] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation has issued SpaceX a license to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit, making SpaceX the first commercial...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-23-10] Demand for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) services will be worth $224.5 billion by 2020, according to a study released Nov. 22 by the European GNSS...

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] The U.S. Department of Defense’s STPSat-2 satellite has launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska on board a Minotaur 4 rocket, the U.S. Air Force announced Nov....

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), marking its fourth successful flight of a Delta 4 Heavy rocket, the...

[Satellite News 11-23-10] In coming years, the U.S. Department of Defense and other agencies of the federal government are expected to increase their dependence on commercial satellite services to augment...

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] ViaSat has selected Tecom Industries’ KuStream 1500 antenna system for integration into a communication system onboard a Boeing C-17 aircraft to support high data rates for transmission...

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] Prime contractor Thales Alenia Space and its partner OHB-System have been given the green light to begin work on the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) system from the...

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] Com Dev USA was awarded a $6 million contract to provide UHF passive microwave equipment for a U.S. government satellite payload, the company announced Nov. 19.    ...