Government/Military

[Satellite News 03-18-09] Two X-band capacity contracts with the U.S. government announced by Arrowhead Global Solutions are just the tipping point in a wave of interest in the commercial frequency for government and military customers, Arrowhead Global Solutions President Tom Eaton told Satellite News.     "We timed our entry into the X-band market perfectly," said...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Symmetricom has been awarded a contract from ITT Corp. to provide components for the GPS 3 system, Symmetricom announced March 16.     Under the terms of the contract, valued at a minimum of $4 million, Symmetricom will deliver its Model 9552 ovenized quartz master oscillators to ITT as part of the building...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] United Launch Alliance (ULA) won a contract valued at about  $600 million from NASA to launch four science and satellite communications missions beginning in 2011, the ULA announced March 16.     According to the terms of the contract, the ULA will launch orbiters for NASA’s tracking and data relay satellite service in...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] ViaSat  received an order from the U.S. Army for initial production of the next generation Blue Force Tracking (BFT-2) transceivers for the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) satellite network upgrade, ViaSat announced March 17.     The order is a follow-on to multiple demonstrations of the prototype BFT-2 satellite communications...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Arrowhead Global Solutions has been awarded a pair of multimillion dollar contracts to provide more than 200 megahertz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. government agencies, Arrowhead announced March 17.     The X-band capacity will be provided by the Xtar-Eur satellite, which is owned and operated by Xtar LLC, and...

[Satellite News 03-17-09] Comtech Mobile Datacom’s new Blue Force Tracking High Capacity (BFT-HC) system could be ready for military operations as early as this summer, with a rollout target that coincides with the buildup of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Dan Wood, the unit’s president, told Satellite News     Comtech is one of several companies...

[Satellite Today 03-17-09] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a European Union (EU) navigation payload to SES Astra’s Sirius 5 satellite, SS/L announced March 16.     SES won the contract from the European Commission (EC) to provide services to the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), and will supply the EU with the tailor-made payload as...

United States May Be About To Repeat Past Mistakes: Stopping A Program Just As It Is About To Prove It Works Time Is Running Out For Providing $2 Billion To Accelerate Orion-Ares First Manned Flight, Reducing No-Fly Gap GREENBELT, Md. — The U.S. space program, the largest and most successful of any in this solar...

Updated — March 13, 2009 – 9:45 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: * Mission: STS-119 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center – Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: * Description: Space shuttle Discovery launching on assembly flight 15A, will...

[Satellite Today 03-16-09] Boeing and the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command/Army  Forces Strategic Command have launched a joint research and development effort to coordinate and fuse multiple types of sensor data in a secure environment for integrated air and missile defense and space situational awareness concept exploration, Boeing announced March 12. Boeing, which...