Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-19-11] The Russian Space Agency’s (Roscosmos) loss of communications with the Express AM-4 satellite could be a “nightmare” for the country’s space industry, according to Russian space...

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[Satellite TODAY 08-19-11] The U.S. Air Force has replaced one of its ailing Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with a spare spacecraft that was already in orbit, the U.S. Department...

[Satellite TODAY 08-19-11] China lost its prototype ShiJian 11-04 satellite after the Long March 2C rocket carrying the spacecraft experienced a first stage engine failure that caused the rocket to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-19-11] China lost its prototype ShiJian 11-04 satellite after the Long March 2C rocket carrying the spacecraft experienced a first stage engine failure that caused the rocket to...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-18-11] China performed a record number of launches in 2010 to match the United States’ launch output for the first time in the industry’s history, according to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-18-11] China has launched Pakistan’s first communication satellite Paksat-1R on a Long March 3B/E rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Chinese officials confirmed Aug. 17.    The...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-17-11] Six Earth observational satellites are set to launch simultaneously on Aug. 17 from the Yasny Launch Base in southwestern Russia on a Dnepr launch vehicle operated...

[Satellite TODAY 08-16-11] Harris Corp. has received a $4.7 million order from the Canadian government for its Falcon 3 AN/PRC-117G multi-band man pack radios and RF-7800B tactical satellite communication systems,...

[Satellite TODAY 08-16-11] Comtech’s Arizona-based subsidiary Comtech EF Data received $2.4 million in SLM-5650A satellite modem and associated redundancy switch orders from the U.S. government, the company announced Aug. 15....