Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 06-01-10] Russian Space Systems Corp. (RSSC) and the U.S. Trimble Navigation Group have signed an agreement to create Rusnavgeoset Co., a joint satellite navigation venture in Russia, RSSC...

[Satellite TODAY 06-01-10] Serbian government prosecutors have filed legal charges against former Serbia-Montenegro defense minister Prvoslav Davinic for signing a deal to rent an Israeli spy satellite from ImageSat, government...

[Satellite TODAY 05-27-10] Potential crashes between satellites and space debris may impact the $250 billion space-services market, according to a U.S. Defense Department Space Posture Review report released to the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-27-10] United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) postponed Delta 4 launch of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System 2F-SV1 satellite (GPS 2F-SV1) has pushed SpaceX’s first test launch of...

[Satellite TODAY 05-27-10] Harris Corp. has received a $55 million delivery order for advanced satellite terminals under the U.S. Army‘s Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program, the company announced May...

[Satellite TODAY 05-27-10] Globecomm has received a $7.9 million increase in the total value of a four-year contract from an unnamed U.S. government prime contractor, the company announced May 26....

[Satellite TODAY 05-26-10] Northrop Grumman has completed flight-testing of an airborne satellite communications system installed on a modified business jet aircraft to connect with a WGS via the Ka-band link,...

[Satellite TODAY 05-26-10] Tachyon Networks has completed in-flight testing of its new ATR-9300 airborne terminal for the mobile coms-on-the-move (COTM) market and ISR applications, the company announced May 25.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 05-24-10] JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have successfully launched the Japanese meteorological satellite Akatsuki (Planet C) aboard a H-2A launch vehicle on May 21, JAXA confirmed.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 05-21-10] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has completed a preliminary design review for a propulsion system that it is building for NASA, the company announced May 20.     The review...