Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 10-06-11] Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has received a one-year, $37.9 million value-added services contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the NGA’s new Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (EGD) program, DigitalGlobe announced Oct. 5.    The contract will see DigitalGlobe provide value-added support to NGA to meet the agency’s advanced imagery requirements...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-05-11] A U.S. Air Force Academy physics department research center has been awarded a research grant worth approximately $800,000 to study space situational awareness, the Air Force Academy announced Oct. 3.    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research issued the grant under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. Air Force academy...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-11] L-3 Communications Systems-West issued ASC Signal Corp. a $3.8 million subcontract to build a dual-band antenna system supporting global data collection and dissemination for the U.S. Navy MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program, ASC Signal announced Oct. 2.    ASC Signal said the advanced antenna terminals would...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-11] Satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has completed the development phase for its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system, NovaSAR-S, the company announced Oct. 4.    SSTL said the system was designed to offer customers coverage of any spot on Earth in all conditions, including through cloud cover and in both...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-11] Boeing successfully demonstrated high-data-rate transmissions between a family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) system and a test terminal for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite, the manufacturer announced Oct. 4.    The demonstration was conducted in August at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems facilities in Redondo Beach, Calif. and involved a...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-11] The Megha-Tropiques advanced weather and climate research satellite, a collaborative effort between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and French Space Agency (CNES), is set to launch on an ISRO PSLV rocket from the Bay of Bengal on Oct. 12, the partners confirmed Oct. 3.    Once in orbit, the satellite will pass...

[Satellite News 10-05-11] Hundreds of satellite executives, manufacturers, scientists and end-users from a wide variety of industry sectors packed into the Oct. 4 Hosted Payload Summit to address issues and voice perspectives surrounding the increasing use of hosted payloads on commercial satellites.    The one-day event, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.,...

[Satellite TODAY 10-04-11] Nigeria has launched NigeriaSat-X – the first satellite designed and built in Africa and the second of two Earth observation satellites that the country has recently launched, Nigerian officials confirmed Oct. 2.    NigeriaSat-X is the country’s fourth satellite and is the result of a training agreement between the National Space Research...

[Satellite TODAY 10-04-11] Russia has launched a Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) satellite on a Soyuz-2.1 rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport, Baikonur officials confirmed Oct. 2.    The Global navigation satellite system Glonass aims to provide location, speed and time monitoring services to Russian military and civilian users, rivaling the U.S.-based GPS system. Glonass also...

[Satellite News 10-04-11] Commercial airlines want the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to accelerate the implementation of onboard satellite-based navigation systems on airlines, according to an industry-government report issued Oct. 3.    The airlines claim that the satellite systems will allow pilots to plot more precise airport-approach routes, which could alleviate airport congestion and reduce...