Government/Military

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Outerlink Corp., a satellite-based mobile asset management solutions provider, has teamed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide satellite-tracking data from all commercial satellite tracking systems in domestic use today, Outerlink announced Feb. 23.     OuterLink will integrate satellite data feeds from MSAT-, Iridium– and Inmarsat-based tracking systems.    ...

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has certified imagery from the GeoEye-1 as meeting NGA’s requirements for quality, accuracy and resolution, GeoEye announced Feb. 22.     The satellite, placed in orbit in September by Boeing, provides black-and-white imagery with a ground resolution of 0.41 meters and multi-spectral imagery at 1.65-meter resolution.With the...

Updated — Feb. 20, 2009 – 5:45 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 24 Mission: OCO Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Taurus Rocket Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base – Launch Pad SLC 576-E Launch Time:1:51:30 a.m. PST. (4:51:30 a.m. EST) Description: The...

Analyst: Regime Ignored Pressures In 2006, Tested Missile, Nuke; It’s Still Obstinate The West shouldn’t assume that North Korea can be persuaded to abandon its moves toward launching a long-range missile, a military analyst said. "I would have no confidence" that sanctions or other pressures can push North Korean leader Kim Jong Il into abandoning...

More Work Required To Review Data, Perform Tests, Before Experts Will Be Comfortable With Flight Safety Another Flight Readiness Review May Be Held; No Liftoff Seen During March 13-April 6; 2009 Launch Manifest Retained The launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-119 Mission to the International Space Station has been delayed yet again, with...

[Satellite Today 02-23-09] Two UCLA geography professors say their work with satellite tracking software might help the United States get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden, according to a Feb. 19 report on the MIT International Review Web site.     Using satellite imagery and biogeographic theories associated with the distribution of life and extinction, John...

[Satellite Today 02-23-09] RapidEye reached an agreement with Bufete de Ingeniería en Telecomunicaciones y Sistemas (BITS), to be its sole distributor of satellite imagery in Mexico and Central America, RapidEye announced Feb. 20.     The five RapidEye Earth observation satellite begin operations in early February. The constellation is intended provide agricultural land information products and...

The House this week will consider legislation to provide $1.4 billion for NASA earth science to fund critical satellite missions, funding that merits approval, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) said. That appropriation, contained in an omnibus funding bill, includes $150 million for new NASA earth science missions to measure ice sheets, climate and atmosphere to...

The last new section of the Ares I-X test rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center for assembly, prior to the next-generation U.S. spacecraft rocket soaring on its first flight sometime in the summer, NASA announced. That section was taken to the Assembly and Refurbishment Facility. Called the frustum, the section resembles a giant funnel. Its...

A Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) was launched to score a direct hit on a remote-controlled land-based moving target, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. The test was conducted at the Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif. The test concluded a four-part series of developmental/operational flight tests funded by the Navy Rapid...