Government/Military

Via Satellite and the SATELLITE show group recently announced the opening of registration for our second annual Hosted Payload Summit in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 27. The event was created...

Spaceflight Inc. has unveiled its Sherpa in-space tug vehicle to inject hosted payloads into different orbits.     The Sherpa 400 is optimized for low Earth orbit (LEO) missions. The company will...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is soliciting ancillary payloads for its upcoming Orbital Test-Bed (OTB) mission that will be launched in the first quarter of 2015.    The OTB mission...

ATK has confirmed the retirement of the Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3) spacecraft, which was de-orbited to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on April 30 – nearly three years after its...

Lockheed Martin has named Robert Cleave its new president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) effective May 1.     Cleave succeeds Jack Zivic who is retiring at the end...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-05-12] GeoEye has made an offer to acquire its rival satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe for $792.3 million in cash and stocks, GeoEye CEO Matt O’Connell announced during...

[Satellite News 05-07-12] Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe has unequivocally rejected an unsolicited $792.3 million cash and stock acquisition bid from its imagery sector rival GeoEye and called the offer a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-04-12] The U.S. Air Force has postponed the planned launch of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency 2 (AEHF 2) satellite by at least one day due to a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-04-12] Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Board of Directors has elected Joseph Weiss as President and CEO of IAI, replacing retiring current president and CEO Itzhak Nissan, IAI announced...

[Satellite TODAY 05-04-12] The European Commission (EC) will launch its next pair of ESA-procured Galileo satellites Sept. 28 on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. EC Vice President Antonio...