Government/Military

In recent years, there have been numerous discussions and developments in the interest of moving forward toward an entirely integrated Department of Defense (DOD) satellite communications architecture, one that would fully incorporate commercial innovation in a strategic and intentional manner. Beyond the enhanced resiliency this offers, it increases the speed of capability enhancements while also...

E-Geos won an international contract announced by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) in Indonesia, in support of operations at the SAR (Synthetic Radar Aperture) ground station located in the Perançak Space Center The agreement’s objective is to guarantee satellite monitoring of illegal fishing within the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone, and E-Geos will...

AsiaSat received its second patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled “Methods and Systems for Improving Spectrum Utilization for Satellite Communications.” This patents methods and systems to mitigate the imbalance of uplink and downlink spectrum allocation in satellite communications. Through digitalizing uplink spectrum with an onboard Digital Channelizing Processor (DCP), unused...

The words I wrote some eighteen months ago ring as true today as they did then. The satellite and space industry, along with the rest of the telecommunications industry, is desperately trying to figure out what the Trump presidency will mean for it. So much and so little has happened over the past eighteen months...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) issued a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract to Hughes Network Systems for a fully managed, global satellite network to support distance learning programs for the Government Education and Training Network (GETN). The contract award is estimated at $15 million in total funding for up to five years. Under the...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received $3 million in contract awards for design and build of two Ku-Band Earth stations for an unnamed customer. Kratos will deliver two Ku-band Earth station solutions that include Kratos’ 5.0-meter and 6.2-meter Ku-band limited motion antenna systems and a Compass monitoring and control system. The Kratos’ earth station...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket is in final preparations to launch NASA‘s Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (IceSat-2) spacecraft from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 15. This marks the final launch of the Delta II rocket, which first launched on Feb. 14, 1989. IceSat-2, with its single instrument, the Advanced Topographic...

The Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) officially launched operations today with the goal of promoting the further economic development of the country’s space industry by attracting businesses, developing human resources, providing innovative financial solutions, and supporting educational and research infrastructure. Under the authority of the Ministry of the Economy, the agency is partnering with leading national...

A ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario would result in the United Kingdom being removed from the European Union (EU) Space Surveillance and Tracking (EUSST) program and, essentially, losing a critical space debris tracking resource, according to a UK government report published Sept. 13. The EUSST was established in 2014 to track orbital debris and provide warnings about...

LeoSat, which is launching a global data network via a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, has achieved an important milestone by securing commercial agreements valued at over $1 billion. These pre-launch agreements span a wide range of fast-growing data and mobility sectors including enterprise, telecom, government, and finance. “We believe that LeoSat can...