Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $10 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop technical solutions that will help maintain command and control systems for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Raytheon announced April 26.     DARPA authorized the funds under its Resilient Command and Control (RC2) program, which...

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Boeing has delivered the U.S. Air Force Space Command‘s second GPS 2F satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to prepare for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket later this summer, the Air Force announced April 26.     The GPS 2F satellite is the second built by Boeing...

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-11] Boeing’s GPS Operational Control Segment (OCS) has gained full operational status with the U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., Boeing announced April 25.     The OCS system was designed to provide new capabilities to GPS users through its distributed, open software and hardware architectures to increase...

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-11] Russian Space Forces have re-established control of its Geo-IK-2 military satellite after losing contact with the spacecraft in February, Russian Defense Ministry officials announced April 25.      The officials said the Russian Space Agency has already received telemetric information from the satellite and that it has resumed collecting and analyzing data. Geo-IK-2...

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-11] Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) Director Ayman Ad-Dosouqi has indefinitely postponed the scheduled 2013 launch of the MisrSat-2/EgyptSat-2 research satellite, according to a statement issued April 22 to the Qatar News Agency.     NARSS did not give a specific reason for the postponement and Ad-Dosouqi did not...

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-11] Boeing delivered the GPS 2F SV-2 satellite to the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Cape Canaveral Station, the Air Force announced April 22.     SV-2 will be the second GPS 2F space vehicle in operation after it is launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket later this summer. The planned...

[Satellite TODAY 04-22-11] Thales Alenia Space signed a 54.5 million euro ($79.6 million) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply a new version of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), Thales announced April 21.     The 28-month contract will see Thales incorporate improvements for EGNOS’ enhanced operability and upgrade critical subsystems that...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-21-11] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying three satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan announced April 19.     The ISRO PSLV-C16 mission delivered the Indian government’s Resourcesat 2 spacecraft to replace Resourcesat 1, which was launched in...

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] DigitalGlobe has raised the orbit of its QuickBird satellite, the company announced April 19.     DigitalGlobe lifted QuickBird from its previous 450-kilometer orbit to a new slot 482 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Service was not affected during the process, which began in late March.     The company said the new orbit...

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] U.S. Space has been awarded a $291,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to study feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite communication needs, the company announced April 19.     U.S. Space said the study would review commercial and other alternative approaches to the existing military satellite...