Government/Military

[10-16-07 – Satellite Today]  Benham Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), has been awarded a $51.4 million contract by NASA to design, engineer and build two...

[10-15-07 – Satellite Today]  The fourth modernized GPS  Block 2R satellite is set for launch Oct. 17 from Cape Canaveral Air Force station, satellite manufacturer Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 15....

[10-12-07 – Satellite Today] Italian satellite operator   Telespazio will open its Space OPS academy Oct. 15. The academy aims to develop students’ technical and professional skills in the areas of...

[10-11-07 – Satellite Today] A damaged pyro firing cable caused the failure of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite in September, the Russian State Commission announced Oct. 11. JCSAT-11...

[10-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Boeing has acquired signals from the first Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, the company announced Oct. 11. The satellite, one of five Boeing is building for...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  ViaSat Inc. and Smart Digital Communications Bhd. recently collected real-time data to validate Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tsunami predictions, ViaSat announced Oct 9. Telemetry and...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully completed the System Acceptance Test of a Common Command and Telemetry System between the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  Antenna Technology Communications Inc. has won a $1.2 million bid to provide the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an Intermediate Frequency (IF) matrix...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today] The American Red Cross has selected   Global Relief Technologies LLC (GRT) to equip disaster relief professionals with equipment to augment disaster response communications, GRT announced Oct....

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded a $56 million contract to reset, repair and upgrade DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub Satcom trucks used in...