Government/Military

Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, was awarded a $2 million contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating a next-generation optical telescope system for small satellite constellations. Radiant Solutions is partnered on this program with SSL, Maxar’s spacecraft manufacturing business. The satellite telescope...

A group of young women are building a cubesat in Kyrgyzstan, aiming to build and launch the country’s first satellite before 2020. Women account for less than 10 percent of Kyrgyzstan’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) graduates, according to the U.N. Development Program.  “I feel very proud that it’s going to be the first...

At a time when a second international Cold War is being waged over virtual assets under constant threat, cybersecurity idea-sharing has become a much more public affair. This is most likely because nearly everyone and everything on Earth has been hacked, and that hostile actors rarely use the same tricks twice. The need for cybersecurity...

Lepton Global Solutions is partnering with Kymeta, a manufacturer of the electronically-steered, flat-panel Kymeta KyWay satellite terminal in a bid to elevate its position in the government market. Lepton Global has added Kymeta’s next generation flat-panel technology to its government customer offering. Lepton is an end-to-end satellite communications service provider. Kymeta’s Ku-band high-throughput communication system does...

Hughes Network Systems was selected by the U.S. Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) to provide satcom systems integration for the U.S. Coast Guard. Under the agreement, Hughes, supporting through its partner, ADS, will integrate communications systems in support of the Coast Guard’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions requiring airborne...

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions business division deployed its Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive (GATR) satcom and networking systems, as well as personnel, to support Florida’s hurricane disaster recovery efforts. Partnering with the United States Army‘s Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) project office, Cubic’s GATR satcom and networking systems have been set up in several locations throughout...

Airbus will deliver the first European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft from its aerospace site in Bremen, Germany on Nov. 5 2018. An Antonov cargo aircraft will fly the ESM to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the result of four years of development and construction, and is a key milestone...

The French Joint Directorate for Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems (DIRISI) selected Orange Business Services and Telespazio France to provide several satellite communication capabilities and the associated managed services to all military and state entities involved in this framework agreement. These services will facilitate communications when armed forces are involved in field missions, where end-to-end...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide a conceptual design of a lunar rover for science exploration and to prepare for human missions on the lunar surface. As part of MDA’s concept, the rover would be engineered to travel up to 600 kilometers over its lifetime in...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully delivered the KhalifaSat satellite into orbit today, via the H-IIA launch vehicle F40. KhalifaSat was manufactured by the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC). The launch vehicle trajectory was executed as planned, and at about 24 minutes after liftoff, separation of the KhalifaSat satellite was confirmed. This mission was performed...