Month: November 2018

SpaceX delayed the scheduled launch of the SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission, which was set for Wednesday Nov. 28. The satellites would have been carried on a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed its new AWS Ground Station program, which will take advantage of Lockheed Martin‘s new Verge antenna network. Through this integration, customers using AWS Ground Station gain the...

Lockheed Martin is contributing $1.5 million to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for the development of a new cyber innovation lab that aims to foster the next generation of...

In a major milestone, Sky and Space Global (SAS) signed a strategic distribution agreement with Globalsat Group for the provision of its connectivity services, including Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet...

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to Telesat, involving its commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. Telesat will undertake investigations that could lead to the...

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is designing a low cost 35 kilogram lunar communications satellite mission called DoT-4, targeted for a 2021 launch. DoT-4 aims to provide the communications relay back...

Seakr Engineering has been awarded a contract to define requirements and build digital processing system prototypes for protected satellite communications for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center....

After seven months of traveling through space, the NASA InSight mission has landed on Mars. A few minutes after landing, InSight sent the official “beep” to NASA to signal that...

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) Executive Director David Luber sees increasingly dangerous cyber-attacks and believes that greater collaboration between government and industry will be required to counter threats. “It is a...

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Colorado Springs-based CACI NSS a $63,267,131 fixed-price-incentive firm-target modification contract to upgrade, maintain, and support its consolidated Air Force...