Government/Military

[Satellite News 10-28-11] Canada could be the United States’ latest Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) ally as the nation’s government revealed plans Oct. 28 to spend as much as $477 million to participate in the U.S.-led military program. The announcement follows Canadian Parliament authorizing Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay permission to pay the sum to ensure...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-28-11] Raytheon Co. reported strong 2011 third quarter bookings of $6.88 billion compared with $6.03 billion in the third quarter 2010 and saw healthy increases in its space-related business units, the company announced in its latest financial results issued Oct. 27.    The overall company, however, reported a quarterly net sales drop...

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to Stratos to provide connectivity solutions to Coast Guard cutter vessels, Stratos’ government division SGSI announced Oct. 27.    SGSI will provide the Coast Guard with Ku-band satellite airtime, installation support, teleport equipment and service, network operations center support...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has been contracted by NTT GeoSpace to provide imagery and support for NTT’s new online geospatial intelligence service GeoSpace CDS, DigitalGlobe announced Oct. 26.    GeoSpace CDS will feature on-demand access to imagery sourced from DigitalGlobe’s suite of content services, including DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap and FirstLook platforms....

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Lockheed Martin will begin integrating GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite GeoEye-2 with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later this month, the satellite manufacturer announced Oct. 26.             Lockheed said the start of the vehicle integration puts the progress of the program on schedule...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] German satellite equipment manufacturer Work Microwave’s joint venture with satellite navigation technology developer IFEN has unveiled a new model for its NavX global navigation satellite system (GNSS) test solution product family, the companies confirmed Oct. 26.    The new design, named NavX-NCS Essential, includes new RF multi-GNSS signal generator technology for volume...

[Satellite News 10-26-11] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk testified before the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the progress of its $75 million NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program contract awarded in April, the commercial launch company announced Oct. 26.    In written testimony, Musk updated the committee on the work that SpaceX has...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-25-11] Geospatial information service provider GeoEye has received two contract awards from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Boeing, GeoEye announced Oct. 24.    The first contract will see GeoEye deliver enhanced value-added commercial imagery geo-intelligence (GEOINT) services to the NGA. The order, authorized under the EnhancedView award that GeoEye received...

[Satellite News 10-24-11] As one Africa’s main economic hubs, South Africa is looking to develop its milsatcom capabilities by working alongside NATO and other African Union Defense Forces on missions across the continent.    Despite challenging economic times, the country is still pressing ahead with its plans, according to South African National Defense Force Brig....

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-24-11] U.S. Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, warned satellite industry service providers in the government sector that the rising amount of data collected by U.S. satellites and other aerial platforms is starting to exceed the Pentagon’s ability to process it.    In a statement issued during...