Government/Military

With the United States and its allies embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the demands on technology to help warfighters has never been greater, particularly against an enemy that...

 

Military satellite designers rely on increasingly complex layers of software, and this means more vulnerabilities are lurking in space and on the ground. As more emphasis is placed on everything...

As conflicts continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, the demands by military forces for advanced communications have never been greater. The nature of conflict seems to have changed in recent years,...

The unveiling of the Air Force budget request for fiscal year 2009 revealed that the service has cut funding to some programs such as the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT)...

[Satellite Today – 4-1-08] GIOVE-A, the first satellite in the Galileo satellite navigation system, has completed its nominal mission lifetime, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has extended its operations...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Eumetsat (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to use satellite technology...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Raytheon Co. has completed the system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS Control Segment (OCX), Raytheon announced March 28.     In November, Raytheon...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] The fourth SAR-Lupe satellite was placed into orbit March 27 by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket, the German Ministry of Defence announced.     This is the fourth...

[Satellite Today 3-26-08] Lockheed Martin completed static load testing of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced March 26.      The test, which validated the satellite’s...