Government/Military

Raytheon‘s Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Operational Control System program, known as GPS OCX, completed final qualification testing of the system’s modernized monitor station receivers, which are now ready to...

MDA, a Maxar company, was awarded an initial contract value of approximately $30 million (CAD $39 million) with Public Services and Procurement Canada. The initial contract includes the development and...

We’re past the days of the Cold War, but concerns about the growing complexities of geopolitical relationships — and how those complexities could impact the space and satellite industry —...

There are three important agenda items at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) in October, panelists told the annual SATELLITE show Wednesday: Spectrum, spectrum, and spectrum. The infamous agenda item...

Vice President Mike Pence lauded U.S. leadership in the booming global space industry and renewed the Trump administration’s call to stand up a new Space Force at the Pentagon in...

NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and...

Peraton, a national security company, received a contract award from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) to expand its Test and Evaluation (T&E) support on the Mission, Maintenance,...

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved SpaceX’s request to fly more than 1,500 of its Starlink satellites at an altitude of approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) — an orbit...

Robert Lightfoot, a longtime NASA executive who served as both the agency’s acting administrator and highest-ranking civil servant, will join Lockheed Martin Space as vice president, Strategy and Business Development,...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions recently received a $12.6 million Command, Control, Communication, Computing, Combat, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) System production contract award from a national security-related customer. Kratos supports...