Government/Military

ESA’s Proba V has become the first satellite to pick up aircraft tracking signals, allowing aircraft across the globe to be followed in flight from space.

Northrop Grumman recently delivered the first of approximately 20 electronics units for the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite payload, allowing the integration and test phase of production to get under way.

NOAA’s GOES 13 weather satellite has officially returned to normal operations after it experienced technical problems last May.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the second of two payloads that will be hosted on government-owned satellites to bring protected, extremely high frequency (EHF) communications

Astrium has been awarded the payload module contract for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) future astronomy mission Euclid, due for launch in 2020

NASA's next scientific satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., has been scheduled for launch June 26.

Lockheed Martin has announced successful completion of the functional integration tests on the spacecraft bus and network communications equipment of the first next generation Global Positioning System satellite, known as GPS III.

ITT Exelis has been awarded a $788 million U.S. Army contract to continue to provide information technology operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Army in Southwest and Central Asia.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded ITT Exelis a contract to develop a global netted communications capability for the agency's distributed tactical communications system (DTCS).

Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s recently appointed chairman and CEO, has called for a fast-track modification of the Ariane 5 rocket that will enable it to launch larger electric-propelled satellites into orbit.