Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-11] An Arianespace Soyuz STA rocket has successfully orbited the Pleiades 1A, SSOT and four ELISA satellites from the European spaceport in French Guiana, the launch company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 12-19-11] The Russian and Indian governments announced their intention to cooperate efforts in the development of satellite navigation equipment and the provision of services to civilian users of...

[Satellite News 12-19-11] Raytheon Network Centric Systems has developed several military terminals that have become the first to successfully test with the Pentagon’s on-orbit Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites....

[Satellite TODAY 12-16-11] SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will attempt the first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 7, NASA announced earlier this week. In addition, NASA...

[Satellite TODAY 12-16-11] The government and military satellite industry will need to provide higher-level solutions for less cost in order to capitalize on a market set to nearly double in...

[Satellite TODAY 12-16-11] Global missions communications provider Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked a contract to provide Artel with a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) data network connecting 30 locations in...

[Satellite News 12-16-11] Lockheed Martin reported that it has reached key milestones on two of its largest government/military GEO satellite programs, as the manufacturer delivered the first Mobile User Objective...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-11] Optimal Satcom has been awarded a multi-year contract by Harris CapRock to provide a company-wide capacity management system based on Optimal Satcom’s Enterprise Capacity Manager (ECM) and...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-11]A Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS-3) has delivered the program’s pathfinder spacecraft to the company’s Denver-area facility, Lockheed announced...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-11] The European Commission (EC) unveiled plans Dec. 12 to establish a cross-border surveillance and satellite tracking system, which will aim to allow border guards to share information...