Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a Latin American military network, Comtech announced April 18.     The military customer will receive Comtech’s CDM-625 advanced satellite modems and LPOD block up-converters. The CDM-625...

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] ASRC Aerospace Corp. was awarded a contract from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to operate and maintain the agency’s Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility in Alaska, NOAA announced April 18.     ASRC Aerospace will maintain operations, test and upgrade equipment and monitor software to provide support of the NOAA ground...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-19-11] United Space Alliance (USA) will implement a major workforce reduction in late July and early August following the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program due to the completion of tasks related to day-to-day operations of the fleet, USA announced April 18.     The company said the reduction would affect multiple...

[Satellite News 04-19-11] NASA has distributed $269 million to four U.S. commercial launch companies as part of the Obama administration’s National Space Policy to develop domestic alternatives to send astronauts to orbit, the agency announced in an April 18 press conference.     Of the 22 proposals received by NASA for the commercial crew development program,...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight set of the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite architecture.     WGS-7 will support additional X- and Ka-band communications requirements for U.S. military warfighters. EMS Defense...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new U.S. spy satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket to support a secret national security mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the launch provider announced April 14.     The NROL-34 satellite launched from the Vandenberg Air Force and is on its way to...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] Esri has signed a strategic contract with GeoEye to license a large supply of GeoEye’s high-resolution Ikonos archive imagery, the satellite imagery provider announced April 15.     Esri said it would integrate the GeoEye imagery with its current imagery data from multiple sensors to produce a global, static cache map layer and...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] ITT Corp. has completed a critical design review for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite imaging payload at its facilities in Rochester, N.Y., ITT announced April 15.     ITT said the review was a key milestone for the WorldView-3 payload program as it progresses toward delivery in mid-2013. The WorldView-3 imaging system aims to incorporate...

[Satellite News 04-15-11] Albania’s communist past has left the Eastern European country of 3 million people with very little terrestrial infrastructure, making it a healthy market for satellite TV and communications. Albanian Satellite Pay-TV service provider DigitAlb and regional broadband provider Starsat are two companies that are looking to use satellite to rebuild the nation...

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] Raytheon Technical Services Co., a subsidiary of Raytheon, has formed a team to bid on the U.S. Air Force’s Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract, Raytheon announced April 13.     The contract consolidates the existing operations and maintenance effort at the Eastern and Western launch ranges and the engineering and...