Government/Military

Raytheon is designing Pit Boss, an autonomous mission management system for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s (DARPA’s) Blackjack satellite constellation, with prime Scientific Systems Company. The Blackjack constellation will operate in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). It will network sensors together with a goal to provide persistent global coverage for many applications, including missile warning. Pit...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai revealed today that he intends to pursue a public auction to clear the satellite spectrum currently licensed to the members of the C-Band Alliance (CBA). In a letter to Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), Pai stated that “after much deliberation and a thorough review of the extensive record, I...

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) filed its Treasury Contribution Proposal today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The contribution proposal states that if the FCC adopts the CBA proposal, the CBA commits to pay a portion of net proceeds of a CBA-led auction to the U.S. Treasury using a progressive formula which ranges from 30 percent...

Atlas Space Operations has established a new partnership with launch and space logistics service provider Aevum to collaborate on the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON)-45 space lift mission. The $4.9 million ASLON-45 mission will provide orbital launch services to the DoD Space Test Program and other government agencies.  Atlas...

When it comes to outer space, Russia is both a partner and an adversary for the U.S., a duality made clear by two very different keynotes at Thursday’s CyberSat 2019 conference. NASA CIO Renne Wynn cheerily highlighted the ways the two nations cooperate in space — Russia has a module on the International Space Station...

The collection of new cellular and networking technologies and standards known as 5G is the latest battleground between the United States and China on the world stage, and at stake is nothing less than global economic leadership and cultural domination, the head of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) said Tuesday. “There is a competitive economic...

Raytheon delivered the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting (GEO) 6 satellite navigation payload to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to broadcast the WAAS message, which corrects errors in GPS satellite signals, provides expanded coverage, improves accuracy, and increases reliability. The WAAS GEO 6 payload is now operational and fully integrated into the...

The U.S. Air Force selected Lunar Resources and Rhea Space Activity (RSA) to further develop their new concept for the deployment of a variety of defense-focused, space-based, orbital platforms. A research project jointly developed by Lunar Resources and RSA was recently selected for funding by the Air Force under its Small Business Innovation Research program, which...

  The Russian space industry faces a number of challenges over the next few years. It will look to embrace the power of satellite technologies to reduce the digital divide across one of the largest countries on Earth. Additionally, the country’s big satellite operators — RSCC and Gazprom Satellite Systems — are looking to become...

Telesat and NSSLGlobal completed live testing with multiple government customers using Telesat’s Phase 1 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. During this testing, the companies confirmed the the ultra-low latency of Telesat’s LEO system. They tested speed, latency and jitter for high demand applications including 4K video conferencing, live video streaming, encrypted services for government use, and...