Government/Military

Battery producer Eaglepicher Technologies has landed a new, $1.8 million contract to provide nickel-hydrogen battery cells to Lockheed Martin for use on a new U.S. Navy satellite communications system, Eaglepicher...

A Boeing Delta II launch vehicle successfully delivered to orbit Nov. 17 a replenishment Block 2R Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The Delta II has...

NASA is using one space probe orbiting Mars to search for another spacecraft left missing around the planet. Earlier in the month, the Mars Global Surveyor lost contact with Earth...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has created a special layer of content that will appear in Google Earth, enabling people to see more than 130 new satellite images including natural...

A request by ICO Global Communications to delay construction of its geostationary satellite means the company’s plans to launch a hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications system will be pushed back even further,...

Pigeons might get a dirty reputation from anyone who’s looked closely at the base of a statue in a big-city park, but some California carriers are doing their share to...

The U.S. Air Force is developing an orbital test vehicle, based on the design of a NASA X-37 technology demonstrator, to continue full-scale development and on-orbit testing of an unmanned,...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), within the framework of the United Nations Program on Space Applications, will hold a five-day training course on the International Satellite...

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) claims it has been awarded the first governmental Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) contract designed to harness signals from all current and planned positioning satellite systems....

Lockheed Martin has finished its system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS Block 3 system, the company announced Nov. 16. Lockheed Martin conducted the review under a...