Government/Military

The Skynet 5A military telecommunications satellite has been delivered to French Guiana in advance of its launch aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 in late February. Skynet, scheduled to be launched...

Interstate Electronics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp., has been awarded a pre-production contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for 3-dimensional locators using Integrated GPS...

Thales was awarded a contract to supply NATO with an electronic protective measures modem system to support satellite communications and associated control capabilities. The system is intended to reinforce the...

Harris Corp. completed Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal Prototype Testing on its tri-band ship antenna and associated RF components five months ahead of schedule, the company announced...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C7, lofted four satellites into orbit Jan. 10. The 10th PSLV mission placed India’s Cartosat-2 and Space Capsule Recovery Experiment...

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced...

Swales Aerospace has completed a critical design review for the TacSat-3 Modular Bus program, the company announced. TacSat-3 is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Directorate as...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract valued at about $50 million to execute a system design review for the next-generation GPS space segment, Lockheed Martin announced...

The first satellite in Germany’s SAR-Lupe system was placed into orbit Dec. 19 by a Russian Cosmos 3M booster, satellite prime contractor OHB-System announced. The system of five identical satellites,...

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, announced Dec. 19 that an agreement has been reached with Estonia to become the third Baltic State to join the...