Government/Military

The fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 5) satellite is now delivering secure, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) communications to troops with legacy Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radios. The U.S. Navy,...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, which is part of Comtech’s government solutions segment, has received a five-year contract...

Raytheon has completed an upgrade and final testing of the data transport and processing system for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS), which provides weather and...

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that it has signed and executed an agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced capabilities for servicing and maintaining...

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) has awarded UltiSat a Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) task order to provide C-band and Ku-band bandwidth capacity to...

Reconstruction of Launch Pad 39B should be completed by August, said Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado last week. Furthermore, after...

Roccor announced it has finalized an agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate to license patents of High Strain Component (HSC) technology. The patents will...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Orlando, Florida-based subsidiary Comtech Systems received a follow-on order for its shipboard troposcatter system to meet the U.S....

Japan and Canada are making significant changes to how their national space agencies operate, while Australia is examining whether there is a need for national space agency at all. Speakers...

SES and the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs announced that they have extended a contract to maintain and support Satmed, an e-health satellite platform, until 2020. Under the...