Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 06-27-12] President Barack Obama has authorized the U.S. Export-Import Bank to extend a $125.9 million loan to Vietnam’s state-owned company Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) to buy...

[Satellite News 06-27-12] 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...

[Satellite TODAY 06-26-12] Canadian space and satellite company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been contracted by Israel Aerospace Industries to supply a communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-26-12] The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has informed satellite imagery provider GeoEye that it will not renew the $3.5 billion EnhancedView contract it awarded the company,...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-22-12] L-3 Communications Holdings subsidiary L-3 Global Communications Solutions has inked an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide portable satellite-communications gear to the Pentagon for more than five years...

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a task order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide consolidated logistics management support...

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has placed a new U.S. spy satellite launched into orbit on a security mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, ULA announced June...

[Satellite News 06-19-12] Iridium Communications will form a massive joint venture with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NAV Canada and suppliers Harris Corporation and ITT Exelis to offer continuous satellite...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-19-12] DigitalGlobe will receive $250 million from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) by exercising a service level agreement outlined in its EnhancedView contract for a third optional...

[Satellite TODAY 06-19-12] The Space Foundation is now seeking nominations for induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2013, the organization announced June 18.    The Space Foundation...