Government/Military

The ultimate goal of the U.S. Department of Defense’s space mission is to place capabilities in space in support of national defense and the warfighter. The U.S. Defense Information Systems...

[Satellite Today 04-01-09] Raytheon Co. submitted its final proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Broadcast Service (GBS) satellite broadcast manager and defense enterprise computing center transition contract, Raytheon announced...

[Satellite Today 04-01-09] DataPath Inc. was awarded $35 million by the U.S. Army for Ka-band spares kits for its satellite transportable terminals, DataPath announced March 31.      The order is...

Outerlink To Provide Satellite Tracking To Homeland Security Department Outerlink Corp. has partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide satellite-tracking data from all commercial satellite tracking systems...

[Satellite Today 03-31-09] NASA awarded Harris Corp. a 14-month, multimillion-dollar contract to develop Ka-band capable radios as part of the communication navigation and networking reconfigurable testbed (Connect), which will be...

[Satellite Today 03-30-09] SATELLITE 2009 RECAP: Intelsat General Corp. has been awarded a multi-year contract from Artel Inc. to supply bandwidth to the U.S. military to support UAV surveillance operations,...

Updated — March 28, 2009 – 12:25 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 15 Mission: STS-119 Launch...

Two Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) launched from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. Lockheed makes HIMARS, while AMRAAM was a product of Hughes...

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) space segment completed its critical design audit, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. NPOESS now moves toward critical design review in late April....

The Aegis weapon control system and Standard Missile interceptors took down two missiles simultaneously, in an exercise called Stellar Daggers. Interceptors from the USS Benfold (DDG 65) took out a...