Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 09-21-10] Northrop Grumman’s Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellite autonomously transferred target track data from its acquisition sensor to its tracking sensor, the company announced Sept....

[Satellite TODAY 09-20-10] Artel, an information technology and managed telecom/network services provider, was named the first contractor to provide satellite services under a new $5 billion U.S. General Services Administration...

[Satellite TODAY 09-20-10] The Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Athena Launch Vehicle Family has been selected by NASA to become part of the agency’s Launch Services 2 contract.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 09-20-10] Global Science & Technology has been awarded a $10.3 million contract by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to help manage the agency’s satellite Climate...

[Satellite TODAY 09-17-10] The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded an $89.3 million contract to Boeing for the development of a light,...

[Satellite TODAY 09-17-10] Spacenet subsidiary Spacenet Integrated Government Solutions (SIGS) now manages Raysat Antenna Systems operations as a result of its acquisition by Spacenet’s parent company Gilat Satellite Systems in...

[Satellite TODAY 09-17-10] RapidEye has passed a European Space Agency (ESA) operational readiness review, which will allow ESA and its user community access to RapidEye’s 5-meter, multi-spectral data through an...

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-10] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is stepping up its production to launch eight spacecraft a year in order to meet increasing demand, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre...

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-10] Erdas has partnered with Infoterra, a radar satellite data provider to develop operational applications for TerraSAR-X radar satellite imagery and strengthen the knowledge of SAR data analysis...

[Satellite TODAY 09-14-10] STM Group has launched a new business unit, STM Government Division, which will focus on bringing DVB-RCS satellite communication standards-based technologies to the U.S. government sector, STM...