Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-10] The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) is set to complete construction on the runway of its new horizontal launch facility, Spaceport America, NMSA announced Feb. 16.     The NMSA has been working with commercial partners Virgin Galactic, Lockheed Martin, Moog-FTS and UP Aerospace to develop commercial spaceflight at the new facility.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 02-16-10] SES is adopting training services from Global VSAT Forum (GVF) in order to help prevent RF interference (RFI), SES announced Feb. 15.     SES said the services would help the company in its efforts to refocus the industry’s approach to managing and prevent RFI by engaging with other operators on a series...

[Satellite TODAY 02-11-10] Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with French and Italian space agencies CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil and military telecommunications satellite, Athena-Fidus, Thales Alenia Space announced Feb. 10.    Athena-Fidus will be a geostationary satellite based on the Spacebus 4000 B2 platform,...

[Satellite TODAY 02-11-10] Satellite WAN optimization and acceleration solutions provider Stampede Technologies signed an OEM agreement with Global Protocols Inc. (GPI) to integrate GPI’s SkipWare onto Stampede’s FX-series acceleration appliances, Stampede announced Feb. 10.     The integration aims to accelerate and optimize satellite communications for IP traffic to help military organizations achieve greater application performance...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-10] The U.S. Department of Commerce is planning to create a U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Service line office that will combine the agency’s climate science and service delivery capabilities, the agencies announced Feb. 9.     The merge aims to make NOAA services more accessible to its partners and other users,...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-10] Northrop Grumman appointed Linnie Haynesworth vice president and deputy program director for its National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) division, the company announced Feb. 9.     Haynesworth’s appointment comes just eight days after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced that the NPOESS program would be dismantled...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) issued a solicitation for the $5 billion, 10-year Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) award Feb. 9, the GSA confirmed Feb. 8.     The multiple-award schedule and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity FCSA, a joint venture between the GSA and DISA, is intended...

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-10] The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will issue the solicitation for the $5 billion, 10-year Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) award Feb. 9, the GSA confirmed Feb. 8.     The multiple-award schedule and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity FCSA, a joint venture between the GSA...

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-10] A second global arms race may erupt by 2025 if the international community does not take steps toward a space treaty program, according to a forecast published by the Military Space Transparency Project (MSTP), released Feb. 8.     MSTP Founder Matthew Hoey, author of the report, “Global Space Warfare Technologies — Influences,...

A second global arms race may erupt by 2025 if the international community does not take steps toward a space treaty program, according to a forecast published by the Military Space Transparency Project (MSTP), released Feb. 8.     MSTP Founder Matthew Hoey, author of the report, “Global Space Warfare Technologies — Influences, Trends & The...