Government/Military

[Satellite Today 11-25-08] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has finished the instrument critical design review for the Operational Land Imager instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the company announced...

Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. "Trey" Obering III turned over responsibility for missile defense operations to Army Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O’Reilly, who became the eighth director of the...

Scientists using the European Space Agency spacecraft Mars Express have produced the first crude map of aurorae on Mars. These displays of ultraviolet light appear to be located close to...

A new sensor aboard the International Space Station will check continuously for harmful chemicals in air breathed by station crew members, NASA announced. That sensor also can serve as a...

The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) conducted critical design readiness reviews (CDRR) on its final two prime items, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Those final...

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) will continue as the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) chairman in the next two-year Congress, the 111th Congress, the House Democratic Caucus decided. Skelton became chairman...

NASA is pushing ahead with a plan to launch a spacecraft, Juno, that will unlock secrets of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, the space agency announced this...

NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) will join forces to launch an observatory that will plumb the mysteries of dark energy, which is found throughout the universe. The two...

[Satellite Today 11-24-08] Integral Systems Europe signed a yearly renewable contract to support the Polar Mission Control System (MCS) over the next 15 years with the European Organisation for the...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne is set to become the first European commander of the International Space Station (ISS), ESA announced. De Winne, from Belgium, will fly...