Government/Military

[Via Satellite 07-24-2015] The 67,000km move of Airbus Defence and Space’s Skynet 5A satellite from 6 degrees east to its new position at 94.8 degrees east is on track to...

[Via Satellite 07-22-2015] A Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) team has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the information assurance elements of the Low Cost Terminal (LCT) project. LCT is an initiative...

[Via Satellite 07-21-2015] Harris Corporation has received $45 million in delivery orders for advanced satellite communications terminals under the U.S. Army‘s Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program. The company will...

[Via Satellite 07-21-2015] Communications and Power Industries’ (CPI) Radant Technologies Division has received multi-year orders for radomes and related services from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation in Philadelphia,...

[Via Satellite 07-21-2015] The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space to develop and build the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, the first large mission of...

[Via Satellite 07-20-2015] In an effort to include greater industry input in day-to-day operations, the United States Strategic Command’s (U.S. Stratcom) Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space) has...

[Via Satellite 07-14-2015] The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has approved full rate production of 36 inflatable satellite communications antennas from GATR Technologies for its High Bandwidth Special Intelligence-Palletized Terminal (HBSI-PT)...

[Via Satellite 07-14-2015] The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office has awarded a $23.6 million contract to Orbital ATK to launch the ORS-5 SensorSat spacecraft in mid-2017 using...

[Via Satellite 07-13-2015] The Institute for Defense Analyses has completed its Broad Area Review (BAR) of the United States Air Force Space Command’s (AFSPC) launch vehicle certification process. The independent...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2015] Several companies have expressed interest in commercializing the Super Strypi dedicated small satellite launch vehicle currently under development by the U.S. Air Force Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)...