Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-12] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received another $19 million delivery order from the U.S. Army for equipment, field services support and maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems, TCS announced Aug. 1.    The order is initially funded at...

The May flight of the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) marked a milestone in human spaceflight: the first mission by a privately owned, commercial company (one only 10 years old) to rendezvous and dock with an in-orbit space station, to resupply the station and to return...

[Satellite TODAY 07-31-12] Satellite manufacturer Boeing has won a $317.7 million contract modification to build the 10th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-10) global communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Defense announced July 30.    Boeing will produce, process, launch and provide on-orbit activation for WGS-10 from its facilities in El Segundo,...

[Satellite TODAY 07-31-12] DigitalGlobe has entered into an agreement with the Enough Project to continue providing unrivaled imagery and analysis services to monitor evidence of bombings, razed villages and possible threats to civilians in Sudan, the company announced July 30.    The Enough Project is part of the DigitalGlobe-supported Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP). In addition...

[Satellite TODAY 07-30-12] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to analyze and define aspects of its Phoenix program that are focused on repurposing non-working GEO satellites, SS/L announced July 27.    SS/L said that in order to repurpose valuable components such as antennas, the Phoenix will attach...

[Satellite TODAY 07-30-12] Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) was selected by the U. S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) to provide payload-processing services for the second in a series of Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites, ASO announced July 27.    Astrotech supported the first MUOS satellite launch in February 2012 from Cape...

[Satellite News 07-30-12] The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe’s first venture into the field of satellite navigation and paves the way for the continent’s Galileo satellite navigation system. EGNOS also augments the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) in order to improve the navigation performance in terms of accuracy and integrity with the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-12] Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) had second quarter 2012 net sales of $1.37 billion compared to $1.34 billion in the second quarter of 2011, due to higher net sales on an international tactical radar program, the division’s parent company Raytheon announced July 26.    SAS recorded $204 million of operating income...

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-12] NASA has awarded a $2 million task order to Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the launch of its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L) scheduled for 2013, Astrotech announced July 25.    NASA awarded ASO a similar task order in 2011 to provide pre-launch facilities...

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-12] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received a $7.3 million funded order from the U.S. Army for equipment, field services support and maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems, TCS confirmed July 25.    The TCS SNAP VSAT systems aim...