Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-12] Harris CapRock has signed a multi-year, multi-channel agreement with Astrium Services to offer end-to-end Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Tactical Satellite solutions to international and U.S. government users, the...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully placed another U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite into orbit on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket, the company confirmed June 29.    The unmanned rocket...

Hughes Network Systems has received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 1 validation for its Spaceway Crypto Kernel (HSCK) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),...

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed an in-flight demonstration of a satellite communications system on a Navy EA-18G Growler, the aerospace manufacturer announced.    The system aims to allow...

ASC Signal has released new redundancy technology and product options designed to provide simplified, seamless switching of active radio frequency components on the company’s fixed and transportable Earth station antennas,...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic has launched its 250 MHz T400CS Wideband Channel Simulator that replicates the real-time RF conditions that can be expected in wideband satcom,...

[Satellite News 07-10-12] L-3 Communications Holdings subsidiary L-3 Global Communications Solutions (GCS) has received a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems contract from the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command that...

Space Computer, a privately owned signal processing systems, software and algorithms developer founded in 1987, has been acquired by technology manufacturer ITT Exelis, in an effort to strengthen its presence...

The 49 commercial satellite production programs and 419 individual communications satellites produced between 2012 and 2022 will be worth a combined $52.7 billion, according to a Forecast International study published...

While hosted payload-type deals have been relatively few and far between in the industry, there is hope that there may be some more highly innovative ones coming up. All eyes...