Government/Military

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is set award about $36 million in contracts to companies interested in building system components for its Phoenix program, which aims to retrofit...

The delay of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite program, originally planned kick off its first satellite in late 2009, should come as no surprise to the...

Raytheon is tripling its available satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user, the company announced Feb. 9. The enhancement is being provided by an...

The Hosted Payload Alliance, a non-profit satellite industry association established to serve as a bridge between government and private industry, gained significant support in Europe by adding French commercial launch...

U.K. operator Avanti Communications has raised 75 million British pounds ($118.6 million) through a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to fully finance its upcoming Hylas 3 program, Avanti...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace are set to launch their first Vega rocket Feb. 13 in a qualification flight from the Kourou spaceport in French...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-12] Geospatial information solution provider GeoEye has successfully completed the last of four critical design reviews in its EnhancedView program for the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-12] Raytheon is tripling its available satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user, the company announced Feb. 9. The enhancement is...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-12] Network equipment provider Romantis has delivered a turnkey satellite telemedicine network to connect Russia’s Regional Centers for Disaster Medicine (RCDM) with the country’s unified national system of...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-12] Technology developer EM Research has released its new LX-7800 high-volume frequency synthesizer, the company announced Feb. 9.    The unit operates at a fixed-frequency of 7800 MHz...