Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-28-11] Raytheon Co. reported strong 2011 third quarter bookings of $6.88 billion compared with $6.03 billion in the third quarter 2010 and saw healthy increases in its...

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to Stratos to provide connectivity solutions to Coast Guard cutter vessels, Stratos’ government division...

[Satellite News 10-28-11] Canada could be the United States’ latest Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) ally as the nation’s government revealed plans Oct. 28 to spend as much as $477 million...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has been contracted by NTT GeoSpace to provide imagery and support for NTT’s new online geospatial intelligence service GeoSpace CDS, DigitalGlobe announced...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Lockheed Martin will begin integrating GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite GeoEye-2 with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] German satellite equipment manufacturer Work Microwave’s joint venture with satellite navigation technology developer IFEN has unveiled a new model for its NavX global navigation satellite system (GNSS)...

[Satellite News 10-26-11] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk testified before the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the progress of its $75 million NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-25-11] Geospatial information service provider GeoEye has received two contract awards from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Boeing, GeoEye announced Oct. 24.    The first...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-24-11] U.S. Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, warned satellite industry service providers in the government sector that the rising amount of...

[Satellite TODAY 10-24-11] Space components and ground-station services provider Kongsberg has acquired Norwegian satellite equipment supplier Norspace for an undisclosed price, the companies confirmed Oct. 21.    Kongsberg said it...