Government/Military

[Satellite Today – 1-18-08] Surrey Satellites Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has teamed up with the British Space Center to launch a competition for young scientists in the United Kingdom, the company announced Jan. 17. The two organizations are challenging teams of students to fly a lunch box-sized experiment on a future space mission, supported by expert...

[Satellite Today – 1-18-08] Astrium and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract for the development of the BepiColombo spacecraft, Europe’s first mission to Mercury, ESA announced Jan. 18. BepiColombo was selected by ESA as one of its cornerstone missions in October 2000, and Astrium was selected as prime contractor in 2006. The spacecraft,...

[Satellite Today – 1-18-08] Integral Systems Inc. will begin work on the ground control segment for the next generation of GPS satellites under a contract from Northrop Grumman, Integral announced Jan. 17. The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts in November to Northrop Grumman and Raytheon to develop proposals for the Next Generation Control Segment (OCX)....

[Satellite Today – 1-16-08] The joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has completed the on-orbit deployment of the modernized GPS System Block 2R (GPS 2R-M) satellite with the announcement that the satellite is fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, Lockheed Martin announced Jan. 16.     Lockheed Martin’s operations team assisted...

[Satellite Today – 1-16-08] Harris Corp. was awarded a $410 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Air Force, Harris announced Jan. 15.     Harris was selected for the Network and Space Operations and Maintenance (NSOM) program, which contains a base contract and six options that bring the potential overall value...

[Satellite Today – 1-15-08] Globecomm Systems Inc. has received a $4.6 million contract modification from NATO, Globecomm announced Jan. 14.     The modification extends communications services and on-site support for Globecomm’s GPS-based force tracking system, which enables NATO to identify where its personnel are located and identify other multi-national forces.     Globecomm previously announced about...

[Satellite News – 1-15-08] With the announcement that the WorldView-1 imaging satellite has reached full operating capability, DigitalGlobe’s capacity has been increased five fold, and the company’s biggest problem with its previous satellite has been solved, said Chuck Herring, a DigitalGlobe spokesman.     “One of our biggest issues was scarcity of capacity,” Herring said. “With...

[Satellite Today – 1-11-08] C2Sat, a provider of shipboard stabilized satellite communications terminals, signed a marketing and sales agreement with DRS Technologies, C2Sat said in a statement.     Under the agreement, DRS will market and sell C2Sat’s shipboard stabilized Ku-band terminals to the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies.     C2Sat will market...

[Satellite Today – 1-8-08] Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corp. have been awarded $75 million contract extensions for work the U.S. Air Force‘s Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Jan. 8.     The TSAT program is designed to provide American warfighters with a secure, interoperable,...

[Satellite Today – 1-4-08] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will lead an international effort to pinpoint the location more than 40 GPS satellites in orbit, NOAA announced Jan. 3.     For the next four years, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey will serve as the analysis center coordinator for the International Global Navigation Satellite...