Government/Military

Astrium has been awarded a follow-on contract for the delivery of a second set of subsystems to the Turkish Navy’s Milgem satellite communications program, the company announced Feb. 4.    ...

Northrop Grumman has been selected by ITT Corp. to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads on two international geostationary weather satellites, Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 3.     The cryocoolers...

ViaSat has received $1.9 million in additional orders from the U.S. Department of Defense for its LinkWayS2 satellite modem systems to support U.S. government networks, the company announced Feb. 3....

The U.S. Navy has issued a contract to CapRock Government Solutions to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti, the company announced Feb....

International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) received a $2.62 million contract from the Canadian Department of National Defense for the continued operation of Canadian Forces Radio and Television (CFRT), IDC announced Feb....

U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed drastic changes to NASA’s manned Constellation lunar mission and the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program in the U.S. government’s 2011 fiscal...

The Australian Defense Force’s (ADF) deal with Intelsat to purchase a specialized UHF communications payload aboard the IS-22 satellite represented the best value-for-money tender received during its industry solicitation process,...

GeoEye has a long history of providing the U.S. military and its allies with imagery of Afghanistan. In 2009, GeoEye’s single largest customer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), upgraded its...

[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...

[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...