Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 06-18-12] The U.S. Air Force has issued a request to the satellite industry for ideas on developing the next generation of military weather satellites and satellite sensor payloads,...

[Satellite TODAY 06-18-12] Teledyne has been awarded a cooperative agreement by NASA to foster the commercial use of the International Space Station, the company announced June 15.    Teledyne subsidiary...

[Satellite TODAY 06-15-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) has reserved a Soyuz rocket from Arianespace to launch its Sentinel-1 radar satellite in 2013, the agency announced June 14.    ESA...

[Satellite TODAY 06-15-12] Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus rocket has successfully launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array Telescope (NuSTAR) satellite it built for NASA from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site in Kwajalein...

[Satellite TODAY 06-14-12] Raytheon received a $19 million contract to modify the U.S. Navy’s Multiband Terminal (NMT) to link it with the Air Force’s Enhanced Polar Satellite (EPS), the company...

[Satellite TODAY 06-14-12] 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 June 13.  ...

[Satellite TODAY 06-12-12] 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...

[Satellite TODAY 06-12-12] 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...

[Satellite TODAY 06-11-12] The launch of the first Ukrainian telecommunications satellite, Lybid, will be pushed back from its original 2013 target date due to the year-and-a-half it took to reach...

[Satellite TODAY 06-07-12] GeoEye has successfully passed a critical design review milestone for the development of the GeoEye-2 satellite under the EnhancedView program, which triggers the $111 million cost-share payment...