Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-26-12] The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has informed satellite imagery provider GeoEye that it will not renew the $3.5 billion EnhancedView contract it awarded the company, GeoEye management confirmed June 25.    The EnhancedView program accounted for approximately 41 percent of GeoEye’s 2011 full-year revenue.    GeoEye and rival DigitalGlobe both...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-22-12] L-3 Communications Holdings subsidiary L-3 Global Communications Solutions has inked an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide portable satellite-communications gear to the Pentagon for more than five years with a potential value of up to $500 million, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed June 21.    According to an announcement in the U.S....

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a task order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide consolidated logistics management support (CLMS) in support of the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), the company announced June 21.    The single-award task order has a seven-month base period...

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has placed a new U.S. spy satellite launched into orbit on a security mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, ULA announced June 21.    The Lockheed Martin, Boeing joint venture said the NROL-38 reconnaissance spacecraft launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a ULA Atlas...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-19-12] DigitalGlobe will receive $250 million from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) by exercising a service level agreement outlined in its EnhancedView contract for a third optional year beginning on Sept. 1, DigitalGlobe President and CEO Jeffrey Tarr confirmed in a June 18 statement.    DigitalGlobe and its imagery sector rival GeoEye...

[Satellite News 06-19-12] Iridium Communications will form a massive joint venture with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NAV Canada and suppliers Harris Corporation and ITT Exelis to offer continuous satellite tracking for air traffic management agencies around the globe, the MSS operator confirmed June 19.    The new entity, Aireon, will deliver Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast...

[Satellite TODAY 06-19-12] The Space Foundation is now seeking nominations for induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2013, the organization announced June 18.    The Space Foundation said that nominations of a technology developed anywhere in the world for use in space and then modified or adopted for use on Earth are...

[Satellite TODAY 06-18-12] The U.S. Air Force has issued a request to the satellite industry for ideas on developing the next generation of military weather satellites and satellite sensor payloads, the U.S. Department of Defense announced June 15.    The Air Force said companies would have one year to submit white papers on the topic,...

[Satellite TODAY 06-18-12] Teledyne has been awarded a cooperative agreement by NASA to foster the commercial use of the International Space Station, the company announced June 15.    Teledyne subsidiary Teledyne Brown will develop the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) Earth-imaging platform as part of its new commercial space-based digital imaging business. Teledyne will...

[Satellite TODAY 06-15-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) has reserved a Soyuz rocket from Arianespace to launch its Sentinel-1 radar satellite in 2013, the agency announced June 14.    ESA Spokesman Franco Bonacina said the mission should be followed by further satellite launches in 2014, despite a stall in its funding process with the European...