Government/Military

[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...

[Satellite Today 01-26-09] A team led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman has sent its SpaceWire data bus technology forward for preliminary design review, Lockheed Martin announced Jan. 22. The...

A vehicle-mounted laser system shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), The Boeing Co. [BA] announced today. UAVs are threatening U.S. troops in war zones. In tests at White Sands...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was chosen to chair the House Science and Technology Committee space and aeronautics subcommittee that oversees NASA, and authorizes its programs. Gifford’s husband, Mark Kelley, is...

CBO Sees Missile Defense Annual Outlays Up About $4 Billion Killing European Missile Defense Would Save $4 Billion Yearly Spending on ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs will peak at about...

Chairman Levin Endorses Lynn, Ex-Raytheon Leader, After OMB Gives Assent A key Senate leader endorsed President Obama’s nomination of William Lynn, a former executive with missile maker Raytheon Co. [RTN],...

President Obama told Israeli and other Middle East leaders that he is determined to stop weapons being smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where Hamas terrorists already have fired thousands of...

The Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) target detecting system passed a test while executing the lowest altitude intercept thus far, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. That SM-2 Block IIIB system was tested by...

NASA is a step closer to the first flight test of the rocket that will send humans on their way to the moon as part of the agency’s Constellation Program....