Government/Military

After almost three decades in orbit, the Landsat 5 satellite has set a new world record as the longest-operating Earth observation satellite.

[Satellite TODAY 02-20-13] Brazil has become the first country outside of Russia to host part of the Glonass satellite navigation system. The Brazilian Space Agency and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos,...

In the aftermath of the Russian meteor explosion last week, the international scientific community has renewed the call to make U.S. military satellite data available since those same satellites also detect incoming meteoroid

NASA has announced the next commercial cargo resupply mission will take off on March 1.

Orbital Sciences Antares rocket. Image credit: Orbital Tags: Orbital Sciences, Budget Cuts, Satellite Launch Publication: News.Yahoo.com Publication Date: 02/19/2013 Orbital Sciences’ Michael Hamel, head of business development, has expressed his...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-13] Norsat has launched its new, upgraded fly-away satellite terminal GLOBETrekker 2.0. The multi-band capable terminal is now lighter, faster to deploy and has more features than its...

Scientists monitoring Asteroid 2012 DA14, which will pass closer to Earth on Friday than any other known object of its size, have ruled out it could pose any threat to orbiting satellites.

[Satellite TODAY 02-12-13] Newtec has signed a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to streamline the process for acquisition of Newtec satellite equipment and...

[Satellite TODAY 02-12-13] The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded TrustComm a contract and inclusion on its IT Schedule 70, the federal government’s largest and most widely used acquisition...

[Satellite TODAY 02-12-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed a $4.3 million contract with OGSystems (OGS) to develop a prototype surveillance solution for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,...