Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected ITT Exelist to provide specialized antennas for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) program. Under the...

Belarus and Azerbaijan are working on signing a cooperation agreement under which Azerbaijan will be allowed to use information and images collected by BelKA-2, a Belarusian satellite launched in July 2012.

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

A new report from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has highlighted how the Department of Defense’s (DOD) satellite control networks are fragmented and potentially duplicative.

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed CA$3.2 million worth of contracts with the Government of Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) to provide operations for the...

Glonass-M satellite. Image credit: Reshetnev [Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Arianespace has announced the successful 1804th launch of the Soyuz vehicle. Liftoff took place on Friday, April 26 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome...

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-13] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have announced their decision to postpone the Vega launch VV02 for 24 hours. The launch, originally scheduled for May 2,...

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] EUMETSAT announced the Metop-B has successfully replaced Metop-A as its prime operational polar-orbiting satellite following the end of its commissioning period. Metop-A will continue operations as long...

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] Satrec Initiative (SI) of South Korea and the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) of United Arab Emirates have jointly announced the development program of...