Government/Military

[Via Satellite 05-16-2014] After 15 years of restrictions and intense scrutiny, the United States Department of State has reclassified satellites and several related components so they will no longer be...

[Via Satellite 05-16-2014] General Dynamics C4 Systems delivered the 4,000th Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone to the United States Department of State. These phones have been replacing older models of...

[Via Satellite 05-12-2014] Orbcomm will begin offering its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions to government customers through Corp Ten’s General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. The GSA Schedule by Corp Ten permits government...

[Via Satellite 05-08-2014] Euroconsult has released a new report on military satellite communications (milsatcom) usage. According to the report, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite usage has increased five times...

[Via Satellite 05-08-2014] Lockheed Martin finished building the propulsion module for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO 4) vehicle. The module will maneuver the satellite during...

[Via Satellite 05-07-2014] Earlier this year and in a key shot in the arm for the hosted payload industry, Satmex, owned by Eutelsat Communications, signed an agreement with Raytheon and...

[Via Satellite 05-07-2014] Lockheed Martin received two large modules for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES R) at its cleanroom near Denver, Colo. The...

[Via Satellite 05-06-2014] Lockheed Martin completed an analysis of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites during the U.S. Navy’s 2014 Ice Exercise (ICEX), and showed that the satellites provided...

[Via Satellite 05-05-2014] NASA has signed an agreement with the French Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to build, launch and control the world’s first global spacecraft for the purpose of...

Much of the satellite communications (satcom) capability the United States military uses today is provided by commercial satellites. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reports that the U.S. Department...