Government/Military

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded a $56 million contract to reset, repair and upgrade DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub Satcom trucks used in the U.S. Army’s Joint Network Node, the company announced Oct. 8. The contract also includes a base year and three additional years of work, making...

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. will be launching two new Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites in the fourth quarter 2008, the company announced Oct. 8. The satellites, Deimos-1, built for Deimos SL in Spain, and SSTL’s UK-DMC2, will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Kosmotras site in southern Ural. Both...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today]  MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has won a $65 million contract to provide the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) with a space-based data collection platform called Sapphire, the company announced Oct. 4. Sapphire is the first dedicated space mission for DND, and will provide continuous surveillance of manmade and...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today] The  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed Oct.5 that the Kaguya (Selene) satellite was injected into lunar orbit, a first for Japan. JAXA said the satellite was in “good health.” The Selene satellite had been launched on Sept. 14 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The major objectives of the...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has received delivery orders worth $8.7 million to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with VSAT fly-away systems and satellite transportable terminals, the company announced Oct. 4. DataPath will also provide spare kits, training programs and other services and support for the Marine Corps Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) program....

[10-04-07 – Satellite Today]  Comtech EF Data Corp. received an order to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with satellite communications infrastructure equipment, the company announced Oct. 3. The equipment, which consists of the TurboIP-45 Performance Enhancement Proxy, the SLM-5650 Satellite Modem and the Vipersat Management System, will be deployed to support a managed satellite–based...

[10-04-07 – Satellite Today]  Novatel Inc. received a contract from Thales Alenia Space Italia for continued development of a component of ground reception chain reception for Galileo, Novatel announced Oct. 2. The component, known as a ground reference receiver forms part of the ground reception chain, which will be used in the Galileo Ground Mission...

[10-04-07 – Satellite Today] The Australian government will fund a sixth Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) under an agreement to have access to the U.S. satellite communications system, the Australian Defence Ministry announced Oct. 3. Australia will fund the satellite plus associated ground infrastructure at a cost of 927 million Australian dollars ($822.7 million). Boeing is...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Maxwell Technologies Inc. received a contract to produce single board computers for the European Space Agency’s Gaia astronomy mission, the company announced Oct. 1. Maxwell will provide seven of its SCS750 computers that will process images and data gathered by the spacecraft’s 2-ton camera. The data gathered during the five-year mission...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  SpaceDev received a contract from U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for work on the High Delta-V satellite program, the company announced Oct. 2. Under the $3.8 million contract, SpaceDev will develop solar thermal propulsion and the bus design for the program. The program is intended to develop a...