Government/Military

Vizada Networks won a contract expansion with the Norwegian Defense Logistics Organization (NDLO) which will enter the company into a new framework agreement to supply commercial satellite capacity and additional services, Vizada announced May 5.     Vizada’s initial contract with the NDLO, signed in February, included the provision of on-demand satellite capacity in defined areas...

On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy to supply connectivity support to one of its ships. It would be a small start to an ambitious and wide-ranging network upgrade, which aims to provide higher broadband...

Former CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has found a new position at XTAR as president and COO, responsible for the growth and strategic direction of Xtar’s global X-band business as well as overseeing management, marketing and technical aspects of the company.     Harlow, a British military veteran with experience in nearly every level of the military...

[Satellite News 06-07-10] DigitalGlobe Vice President of U.S. Defense Sales Steve Wood recently secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which was driven by an unusually high number of natural disasters and major world events in the past 12 months.     “Since we launched the service...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) appointed S. Ramakrishnan director of its liquid propulsion systems center, the organization announced June 2.      Ramakrishnan previously served as projects director for ISRO at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, providing technical guidance and program direction to ISRO launch vehicle projects as well as new developmental...

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marian Blakey said her organization is “encouraged” by space-related provisions included in the U.S. Fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress on May 27. In a statement released June 3, Blakey hailed supportive language in the Defense Authorization Act for the creation of a joint Defense...

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Via Satellite magazine’s June 2010 Military E-Newsletter features an interview with former CapRock CTO and new Xtar President and COO Philip Harlow, a detailed look into the parallels between disaster management satellite imagery applications used in both the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and military battlefields and the development of Intelsat General’s...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has left the company to join Xtar LLC as president and COO, Xtar announced June 2.     Harlow succeeds Denis Curtin, who is retiring. Curtin will serve in an advisory role at Xtar during Harlow’s transition and will continue to serve as a member of its Board of...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Orbit Technologies won a contract to supply its systems for tracking low orbiting civilian imagery satellites to an unnamed Israeli satellite imaging company, Orbit announced June 2.     Under this agreement, Orbit will supply two TTC LEO tracking antenna systems based on its AL-4018 digital system. The tracking antenna is 3 meters...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) has been awarded a $200,000 contract to provide S-band ranging service to the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for its Communications, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) mission, SSC announced June 2.     SSC will use its PrioraNet Dongara station in Western Australia to support S-band services to COMS...