Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Overwatch, a provider U.S. military satellite communications systems, has hired Karl Stupnik as business development manager.     Stupnik will be responsible for the development of new business...

 [Satellite TODAY 12-22-09] The U.S. House of Representatives has approved $1.6 million for Morehead State University to develop and test solar power technologies applicable to satellites, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)...

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-09] Orbital Sciences was awarded a $74.6 million Phase 2 contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the final design for the System...

[Satellite TODAY 12-18-09] The GeoEye-1 satellite experienced an irregularity in its antenna, which will impact GeoEye’s 2010 revenues by as much as 10 percent and may affect its business with...

[Satellite TODAY 12-18-09] Lockheed Martin has met the requirements of a NASA and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) critical design review of a Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) unit...

[Satellite TODAY 12-17-09] Northrop Grumman has been selected by NASA to supply a scalable space inertial reference unit for its Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, Northrop Grumman announced Dec. 16....

[Satellite TODAY 12-16-09] The French Space Agency (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have extended their contract with GMV to provide mission control of Convection Rotation and planetary Transits...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] Comtech Telecommunications will deliver $2.4 million in satellite modems and redundancy switches to the U.S. Department of Defense to support warfighter communications infrastructure, Comtech announced Dec. 14....

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] The U.S. Senate passed an omnibus spending bill, which provides NASA with an $18.7 billion budget through September and establishes new congressional oversight of NASA’s Constellation program,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] National Hybrid Inc., a provider of military databus products and technologies, has partnered with Pulse Engineering to develop Bus+ — a compact MIL-STD-1553 data bus that combines...