Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-09] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed environmental testing for the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe and has begun post-environmental performance testing, Ball Aerospace announced Aug....

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Astrium Services delivered the first set of secure satellite communications equipment to Aselsan for MILGEM, a Turkish Navy program, Astrium announced Aug. 3.     The Astrium delivery...

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Aerojet, a U.S. supplier of satellite propulsion systems and NEC Corp. have partnered to explore the feasibility of jointly supplying low power ion propulsion systems, used for...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] SkyTerra has added the Infrastructure Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talk-group (I-SMART) to its family of SMART talk-groups, the company announced Aug. 3.     I-SMART, created by Seattle...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Raytheon $9.9 million to perform concept studies for the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) suite, the company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Raytheon has elected Stephen Hadley to its board of directors, effective immediately, the company announced July 31.     Hadley previously served as the principal White House foreign...

[Satellite News 08-03-09] Germany is looking to be more innovative going forward with its military space strategy by building its own next generation military space system, SAR-Lupe. Brig. General Martin...

There are very few satellite executives that have worked as intimately with the U.S. military and government sectors as Intelsat General President Kay Sears, who has spent the past several...

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Integral Systems has submitted a proposal to the U.S. military to deliver an integrated command and control solution for the GPS Next Generation Advanced Control Segment (OCX)...

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] India signed a technology safeguards agreement with the United States on July 20 to facilitate the launch of non-commercial U.S. satellites on Indian launch vehicles, the Indian...