Government/Military

San Diego-based All Road Communications, a provider of satellite phone equipment for the Iridium and Globalstar systems, donated two Iridium satellite phones to the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society as...

With the consolidation of the major players in the Fixed Satellite Services industry now completed, public and private investors are now turning their attention to other aspects of the satellite...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is in the middle of a critical period as it aims to put together programs that will benefit people all over Europe. The role of...

The New York Air National Guard is turning to satellite-enabled technology for its research in Antarctica. Using the Iridium satellite network for voice and data communications, The unit has installed...

The U.S. Air Force has asked for industry input to begin defining the alternative payloads that the service may pursue in place of buying a full complement of Space Based...

Globalstar applied for authority from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use its entire assigned Mobile Satellite Services spectrum for Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services in the United States,...

Iridium is providing satellite data links for a new system of 31 ocean buoys being deployed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The second-generation Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis...

Ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are putting more emphasis on the need for reliable, robust and bandwidth-rich satcom-on-the-move (SOTM) solutions. The U.S. military and Allied Forces relies primarily...

The final report from NASA‘s Exploration Systems Architecture Study threw its support behind using a shuttle-derived solid rocket booster (SRB)-based launch vehicle for the agency’s mission to return humans to...

The U.S. government will fund NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond in coming decades, even though federal finances are constrained by daunting deficits, an industry leader predicted. For...