Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-11] Optimal Satcom has been awarded a subcontract by Integral Systems to provide the Mexican government with an efficient satellite capacity management solution for its new Mexsat satellite system, Optimal announced Aug. 23.     Optimal Satcom will provide Mexsat with its Enterprise Capacity Manager (ECM) software system, combined with its Complan engineered...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-11] Satellite imagery provider Skybox Imaging has named Thomas Ingersoll its new CEO, the company announced Aug. 23.    Ingersoll replaces former CEO Dan Berkenstock, who led the company as its co-founder from its inception in 2009. Berkenstock will assume the role of executive vice president and chief product officer. Ingersoll will be...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-23-11] The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch its Tactical Satellite 4 (TacSat-4) Sept. 27 from the Alaska Aerospace Corp.’s Kodiak launch complex on an Orbital Sciences Minotaur-4 rocket, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed Aug. 22.    TacSat-4 is a Navy-led joint mission that aims to provide 10 UHF channels...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-11] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) was awarded a $5 million blanket purchase agreement to provide consulting, information technology and support services to the U.S. Army through January 2013, TCS announced Aug. 22.    TCS said the agreement allows the company to bid on task orders for IT service management, network services, data center management,...

[Satellite News 08-23-11]The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) decided to ground its Proton-M rocket after an Aug. 18 Khrunichev launch failure placed the $265 million Express AM-4 satellite into a bad orbit and caused the satellite to lose connection with its ground station. The incident, Russia’s fifth in a period of nine months, also prompted...

[Satellite TODAY 08-22-11] EMS Technologies’ Defense and Space division has been awarded an $11.5 million contract with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems to provide an anti-jam beam-forming network for the fourth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) spacecraft, EMS announced Aug. 19.    EMS’ nulling system aims to help safeguard the AEHF constellation’s military satcom...

[Satellite TODAY 08-22-11] Satellite operator ViaSat said it is in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense regarding a satellite upgrade to improve ISR capabilities on operations and confirmed that the Pentagon is “very interested to use ViaSat-1” for the project, according to a Sheppard report issued Aug. 19.    In the report, ViaSat said...

[Satellite News 08-22-11] The U.S. congressional super-committee created by the U.S. Budget Control Act could enact an additional $600 billion in defense cuts in order to meet its required 10-year $900 billion budget savings mark, according to Aerospace Industries Association CEO Marion Blakey.    The super-committee was part of a short-term debt ceiling solution that...

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[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-19-11] The Russian Space Agency’s (Roscosmos) loss of communications with the Express AM-4 satellite could be a “nightmare” for the country’s space industry, according to Russian space analyst Igor Lissov, who warned that a complete loss of the spacecraft could result in embarrassing three- to four-year delays on the country’s critical commercial...