Government/Military

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), which signed a strategic commercial agreement to use Arabsat’s new BADR-7 satellite earlier this year, could look to do further hosted payload deals in the near...

I always thought PowerPoint presentations were fairly innocuous and really just a way of stimulating debate, but it seems a presentation that Kay Sears gave in 2007 was a key...

Tags: LandSat, USGS, NASA, Google, Satellite Imagery Publication: NBCNews.com Publication Date: 05/09/2013 To access the interactive map, click on the image. Google, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME...

Tags: Drone, Prototype, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Publication: NationalGeographic.com Publication Date: 05/02/2013 The half-inch drone could be used for environmental monitoring or pollination of crops. Image credit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab Researchers...

The Radarsat-1 Earth observation satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for the Canadian government, has concluded its mission after serving the organization for more than 17 years – 12 years longer than its mission life.

[Satellite TODAY 05-09-13] BringCom has announced it has been awarded a new multi-year contract by an international carrier for a U.S. Government circuit. Under the contract, valued at $7.324 million,...

A PowerPoint presentation given by Intelsat General’s President, Kay Sears proved to be the catalyst that sparked GeoMetWatch (GMW) to pursue a hosted payload deal. GMW is a commercial technology...

[Satellite TODAY 05-08-13] Raytheon U.K. and the Canadian Department of National Defense have selected ITT Exelis to provide anti-jam GPS antenna arrays for several Canadian airborne military platforms.      ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected its seventh mission for Europe’s Earth Explorer project. The Biomass satellite will use advanced radar technology to map and monitor living matter (plants an animals) as well as inorganic carbon contained throughout the world’s forests.

[Satellite TODAY 05-07-13] The U.S. Air Force has awarded ITT Exelis a $6.1 million contract to insert a modern data storage and memory technology into the Strategic Automated Command Control...