Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] The Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS GEO-1 missile warning satellite has delivered its first infrared imagery to its U.S. Air Force ground station, the manufacturer announced July 8.    Lockheed Martin said the SBIRS GEO-1 spacecraft, launched in May, is performing as expected and undergoing early orbit testing. The satellite aims to enhance the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] Globecomm Systems has recently completed the transition and expansion of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) satellite broadcast network to DVB-S2 under its subcontract to Raytheon, Globecomm announced July 8.    The satellite network functions as a one-way, point-to-multipoint satellite...

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] NewSat signed $2.35 million in new contracts during May and June to provide satellite communication services to Australian Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, the company announced July 7.     The new contracts include: a proactive communications agreement to provide satellite service for U.S. Military troops in Southern Afghanistan; contracts with...

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force, the company announced July 6.    L-3 TE said its engineers have been working with Air Force personnel at Edwards Air Force Base to test a...

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Geospatial information services provider GeoEye signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery for international customers in Russia and its neighboring countries, GeoEye announced July 6.    The agreement notes that GeoEye will...

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Lockheed Martin has completed a System Design Review (SDR) on-schedule for the GPS 3B satellite increment under the U.S. Air Force‘s next generation GPS 3 program, the company announced July 6.    Lockheed Martin Space Systems is under contract to produce the first two of a planned eight GPS 3A satellites. The...

[Satellite News 07-07-11] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is taking a stab at in-space satellite repair and refueling by demonstrating the abilities of Dextre — its contributed service robot onboard the International Space Station. Working with NASA, the CSA is sending new tools to the robot that will enable it to perform satellite maintenance onboard...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist Track24 has unveiled a new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) solution, the company announced July 5.    The SCC Titan solution aims to offer full BFT capabilities to military commanders alongside upgraded features including red force contact, machine-to-machine (M2M) signaling and...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The Stanislaus County government in California has contracted DigitalGlobe to provide its Precision Aerial Imagery to allow the county government to monitor changes and manage projects, DigitalGlobe announced July 5.             In a statement, Stanislaus County GIS Manager Peou Khiek said that DigitalGlobe’s imagery complexity and refresh rates could reduce the time...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The U.S. Air Force Space Command has named Apogee Engineering a prime contractor to provide engineering and communications support services for the U.S. GPS operations center in Colorado Springs, Colo., the Air Force announced July 5.    A.I. Solutions was also named a subcontractor to monitor and collect GPS satellite precise positioning...