Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 09-02-11] Ball Aerospace has shipped a NASA spacecraft carrying a climate and weather-monitoring sensor built by Raytheon to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for its launch...

[Satellite TODAY 09-02-11] Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million satellite Earth station equipment order from a unnamed U.S. solutions provider that will be deployed by the U.S. government to...

A new military satellite communications landscape is emerging. With budgets being cut, the door is being opened for greater flexibility and innovation as DoDs’ try and meet increasing bandwidth demands,...

Providing the best possible protection for warfighters could mean the difference between life and death. Here, we look at how satellite technology is evolving to protect warfighters, as they take-on...

[Satellite TODAY 09-01-11] Russian space agency Roscosmos will resume launching its Proton Breeze-M rocket after a Russian state investigation determined the cause of the rocket’s upper-stage engine failure last week...

The World Radiocommunication Conference in 2007 (WRC-07) adopted Resolution 673 on increased recognition of Earth observation and its applications. That resolution in turn led to a series of ITU recommendations,...

[Satellite TODAY 09-01-11] Gilat Satellite Networks has been contracted by an unnamed customer in Latin America to provide a multi-million dollar SkyEdge 2 VSAT broadband network and services for security...

There are a number of factors that have placed the military satellite communications landscape in a state of evolution. With most countries in the western world coming to grips with...

Integral Systems Issued DARPA F6 BAA Architecture Subcontract Integral Systems received a $468,000 contract from mZeal Communications to provide space systems expertise and Multi-level Secure (MLS) network architecture to support...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-01-11] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License to Orbital Sciences, which will allow the company to conduct its NASA Commercial...