Government/Military

Iridium Communications signed a five-year commercial contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) service. Iridium signed the agreement on April 9. Under the agreement, Iridium...

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a production contract from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) company, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to produce a satellite communications system for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Telesat Government Solutions, and Cobham Satcom recently demonstrated a fully virtualized ground system for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) communications to the U.S. Army.  The demonstration, announced...

The UK government has made 60 million pounds ($75.8 million) available for innovations to boost the nation’s satellite communications sector. This is part of a 160 million pound ($202 million)...

The Defense Department on Tuesday released its first Commercial Space Integration Strategy that outlines priorities for pursuing commercial solutions and describes the national security space mission areas where these capabilities have a...

Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation Lightspeed will receive additional support from the Canadian government with a new loan announced Monday. The government of Canada is prepared to loan Telesat $2.14...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the T2TL series....

Gilat Satellite Networks has revealed details of another contract win in the U.S. government arena. One of its U.S.-based subsidiaries, DataPath won a new order from the U.S. Department of...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched the new Texas Space Commission this week to improve the state’s position in the national space industry. Abbott also announced inaugural members of the commission’s...

The FCC dismissed SpaceX’s request to use certain mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum authorized to Globalstar and Dish in the Gen2 Starlink constellation, according to a March 26 FCC order. ...