Government/Military

[Satellite Today 01-30-09] Andrew Werth, founder and longest-serving chairman of the non-profit Global VSAT Forum (GVF) board of directors, died Jan. 28.     Werth, also a former Hughes executive, founded...

[Satellite Today 01-29-09] Telespazio, a joint venture of Finmeccanica and Thales, sold the exclusive rights to Luxembourg’s 4C Satellite Images and Technologies to resell satellite images in a deal worth...

[Satellite Today 01-28-09] MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) conducted its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight in Afghanistan Jan. 1, the company announced Jan. 27.     Flight operations are underway...

[Satellite Today 01-28-09] Boeing received a $75 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force to continue risk reduction and system definition for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), Boeing...

[Satellite Today 01-27-09] RapidEye has released its imagery system demonstration products to the public, the company announced Jan. 26.     The sample datasets are available for download as a RapidEye...

[Satellite Today 01-27-09] DigitalGlobe signed an agreement with Telogis, a location-based services platform, to give Telogis’ developers access to DigitalGlobe’s imagery, DigitalGlobe announced Jan. 26.     The imagery would serve...

Peter B. Teets, a former senior Air Force and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] official, will receive a lifetime space achievement award April 1 at the National Space Symposium from the...

New technology will provide far faster data transfer speeds in the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), a defense contractor stated. The advance was created by a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]/Northrop...

[Satellite Today 01-26-09] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have launched the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (Gosat) satellite aboard the H-2A launch vehicle from the Tanegashima...

[Satellite Today 01-26-09] NASA is in preparations to launch the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) NOAA-N Prime polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite Feb. 4 from Vandenberg Air Force Base,...