Government/Military

The U.S. Navy has issued a contract to CapRock Government Solutions to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti, the company announced Feb....

International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) received a $2.62 million contract from the Canadian Department of National Defense for the continued operation of Canadian Forces Radio and Television (CFRT), IDC announced Feb....

U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed drastic changes to NASA’s manned Constellation lunar mission and the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program in the U.S. government’s 2011 fiscal...

The Australian Defense Force’s (ADF) deal with Intelsat to purchase a specialized UHF communications payload aboard the IS-22 satellite represented the best value-for-money tender received during its industry solicitation process,...

GeoEye has a long history of providing the U.S. military and its allies with imagery of Afghanistan. In 2009, GeoEye’s single largest customer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), upgraded its...

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-10] Harris Corp. has opened a 24,000-square-foot office in Maryland to support its 10-year GOES-R satellite ground segment contract with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

[Satellite TODAY 02-05-10] Astrium has been awarded a follow-on contract for the delivery of a second set of subsystems to the Turkish Navy’s Milgem satellite communications program, the company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 02-04-10] The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program will be dismantled and split between separate projects headed by the U.S. Department of Defense and a partnership...

[Satellite TODAY 02-04-10] ViaSat has received $1.9 million in additional orders from the U.S. Department of Defense for its LinkWayS2 satellite modem systems to support U.S. government networks, the company...

[Satellite TODAY 02-04-10] SpaceX has completed a three-day demonstration and testing session of cargo loading and unloading procedures for its Dragon spacecraft, which NASA has contracted to provide delivery services...