Government/Military

A satellite orbiting Mars completed its primary two-year mission and, after a pause, will be ready for another, NASA announced. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of a complex Martian...

Light-colored deposits in Martian soil indicate that water long ago may have gushed from springs, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported. That water might, for a time, have sheltered any...

The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B10 satellite completed 15 years on orbit, 50 percent more than its 10-year design life, builder Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The entire DSCS...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] The Yaogan 5 satellite, a Chinese Earth observation satellite, was launched on board a Long March rocket from the Taiyuan launch base, state-owned Xinhua News Agency announced...

[Satellite News 12-15-08] Advancements in satellite positioning services, combined with telecommunications and cartographic services, will greatly benefit civil service fields such as law enforcement and emergency management in Europe, according...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] The U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA) awarded Arinc and Impeva Labs Inc. with a contract to install and demonstrate satellite-based next-generation wireless communications tracking, security and...

Space Industry Sales Seen Gaining 4.4 Percent This Year, Easing To 2.1 Percent Next Year Obama Urged To Refrain From Cutting Aerospace, Defense Program Funding The U.S. missile industry continued...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] DataPath has been awarded a pair of delivery orders to manufacture and install Ku-band satellite communications hubs in support of U.S. Central Command and the U.S. Marine...

Costs, Options For Reducing Gap Between Shuttles, Orion, Detailed In NASA Study The Constellation Program won’t cut the size of the Orion space capsule, or crew exploration vehicle, as a...

The Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, which predicted a WMD terrorist attack likely will occur by 2013, focused on weapons of mass destruction rather than possible...