Government/Military

[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] Kratos’ Defense & Rocket Support Services (DRSS) Division has been selected to provide satellite communications, radio frequency and navigation systems support services as a member of the Systems Technology Forum team. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific Radio Frequency and Network Systems Support Division recently awarded Systems...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] Kratos subsidiary RT Logic received a $1 million contract for components to use in the Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Operational Control System (OCX) ground segment. The follow-on contract brings to $4 million the amount awarded to RT Logic for OCX. RT Logic works with GPS OCX prime contractor...

[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded 12 contracts collectively worth $6.7 million to develop new products from the agency’s Radarsat 2 Earth Observation (EO) satellite and other spacecraft. Contract winners included Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), Kepler Space, GHGSat and domestic companies from across the country. The CSA wants new technologies...

[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] CASBAA is hopeful that India is closer to enacting long-awaited reforms to its satellite policies under the leadership of new Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi. Following his election to office in May 2014, Modi has shown greater interest in India’s space economy. He attended the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO’s) latest launch of...

[Via Satellite 08-06-2014] Datacom Systems International placed a $1.7 million order for MarineLink COM10X 1-meter X-band satellite terminals from Norsat. The company will install the terminals on Naval ships for a country in Asia under Norsat’s supervision. The COM10X terminals meet military standards MIL-STD-901D and MIL-STD-167, meaning they are immune to the high impact shock...

[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] United Launch Alliance delivered the United States Air Force’s seventh Global Positioning System (GPS 2F-7) satellite to space on Friday Aug. 1, 2014 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. An RD-180 engine supplied by RD Amross powered the Atlas 5 booster. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10A-4-2engine was used for the Centaur upper stage. “This launch...

[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] Lockheed Martin reports that the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite has completed the acoustic testing conducted to simulate launch vibrations. Next is thermal vacuum testing, the final environmental test ahead of the satellite’s summer 2015 launch. “MUOS 4 is showing all the benefits of learning curve and process improvements that...

[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has certified the ViaSat–Harris Corporation wideband Small Tactical Terminal (STT) (KOR 24A). With certification complete, the companies can deliver the terminals to U.S. and international customers. The enhanced STT is backwards compatible with roughly 150 earlier STTs currently in operation. The two-channel KOR-24A supports narrowband...

[Via Satellite 08-01-2014] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded Acentia-owned 2020 Company a $97.2 million contract for Satellite Mission Operations and Maintenance Support (SMOMS). The five-year contract tasks 2020 Company with program management, systems engineering, and operations and maintenance services for NOAA’s Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO). OSPO produces more...

[Via Satellite 07-31-2014] Lockheed Martin has awarded $25.4 million to General Dynamics for the construction of the U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) 3 Network Communications Element (NCE) for the next two satellites in production: SV07 and SV08. The new contract makes General Dynamics the provider of NCE components for GPS 3 satellites SV01...