Government/Military

Comtech Telecommunications‘ Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary Comtech EF Data received a delivery order in support of a recently awarded contract to provide long-term support for the Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Interface Processor (ATIP) production terminals in support of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). This latest delivery order against the 10-year, $19.1 million follow-on...

Cloud Constellation has launched a global partner program for its SpaceBelt Data Security as a Service (DSAAS) space-based cloud service, enabling partners to offer customers a cloud service that eliminates the terrestrial infrastructure as a key data breach vulnerability. SpaceBelt DSAAS is a scalable, space-based cloud service for securing high-value and highly sensitive data assets by...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Maxar Technologies‘ Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec satellite manufacturing facilities on Aug. 9 to view the final phases of construction of the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM). Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen also attended the visit. The RCM satellites will be the third generation of synthetic aperture radar satellite technology MDA has...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. EDT. NASA selected ULA’s Delta IV Heavy to begin the Parker Solar Probe’s journey to the sun. This was the 37th launch of the Delta IV rocket, and the 10th in the Heavy configuration....

UK Business Secretary Greg Clark has taken his first visit today of the site that will be used for a spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland, the UK Space Agency announced today. The new spaceport is likely to create 400 jobs to the local Scottish economy. In his visit this morning, Clark said thanks to the UK’s...

Lockheed Martin has shipped the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for an October liftoff aboard an Atlas V rocket, the company confirmed yesterday. Lockheed Martin is under contract to deliver six AEHF satellites and the Mission Control Segment. The...

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s advanced tactical booster program has completed two successful hot-fire tests of a motor that had been conditioned to mimic extreme cold- and hot-soak conditions for air-launch application. The tests took place at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the company confirmed. The solid rocket motor will...

As part of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest efforts to bring 5G services to the United States, the agency made a number of major announcements yesterday that establish application and bidding procedures for upper microwave, flexible-use service license auctions covering 24- and 28-GHz bandwidths. The FCC said the auction procedures are meant to...

Inmarsat produced a better-than-expected set of results, which saw a particularly strong performance in the aviation market. The operator announced that overall revenue for the six months to the end of June reached $717.2 million, an increase of 4.9 percent and $33.5 million compared to the same stage last year. However, it was the aviation...

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and the National Oceanography Center (NOC) launched the first Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)- Reflectometry ocean wind data service that is global, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA). The data service is free and is hosted on Earth Reflected Radio-Navigation Signals by Satellite’s (MERRBYS) website, where users can access...