Government/Military

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The U.S. Space Force on Wednesday released its first strategy for acquiring commercial space capabilities, which include four criteria to guide its decision-making in this area and, as...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— International military collaboration is critical to ensure the safety and security of space, a panel of military space force and space command leaders from six different countries...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. allies Germany, France, and New Zealand have been invited to join U.S. Space Command’s Operation Olympic Defender (OOD), which already includes Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom,...

TESAT, a German satellite company, has completed the construction of a brand new facility in the United States. A year after it set-up a US company, TESAT Government, to support...

Iridium Communications signed a five-year commercial contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) service. Iridium signed the agreement on April 9. Under the agreement, Iridium...

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a production contract from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) company, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to produce a satellite communications system for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Telesat Government Solutions, and Cobham Satcom recently demonstrated a fully virtualized ground system for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) communications to the U.S. Army.  The demonstration, announced...

The UK government has made 60 million pounds ($75.8 million) available for innovations to boost the nation’s satellite communications sector. This is part of a 160 million pound ($202 million)...

The Defense Department on Tuesday released its first Commercial Space Integration Strategy that outlines priorities for pursuing commercial solutions and describes the national security space mission areas where these capabilities have a...

Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation Lightspeed will receive additional support from the Canadian government with a new loan announced Monday. The government of Canada is prepared to loan Telesat $2.14...