Government/Military

[Satellite News 01-06-09] Political shifts in the U.S. government could lead to adjustments in business plans, satellite executives told Satellite News.     With the U.S. digital television switchover planned for...

[Satellite Today 01-06-09] Prime contractor Mitsubishi Electric has completed the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (Gosat), which will monitor carbon emissions from space in an effort to assist in the fight...

[Satellite Today 01-06-09] The U.S. Air Force formally renewed the competition between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) program, the U.S. Air Force announced...

The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $371.6 million firm fixed price contract for further work in the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Full Rate Production IV initial...

The Mars rovers, which NASA designed to send spectacular pictures of the red planet back to Earth, are still going some five years after landing in the alien world. That...

NASA denied a news report that the White House killed a U.S.-China space cooperation deal. Contrary to a news report, NASA never asked the White House for a cooperative mission...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced modeling and simulation for missile defense testing, the agency announced. MDA oversaw successful execution of Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b). The GTF-03b...

The Air Force shut down the existing Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) program competition without awarding a contract. Instead, the restructured contest now moves back to square one, with the air...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the...