Government/Military

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Orbital Sciences Corp. has been selected by the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (Nustar) scientific satellite, the company announced Oct. 2. Nustar, which will be based on Orbital’s LEOStar-2 bus, is part of NASA’s Small Explorer...

[10-02-07 – Satellite Today]  Raytheon Co. will be allowed to continue with development of the Navy Multiband Terminal, the Navy has directed following a review of the original decision. The contract for the three-year, $960 million system was awarded May to Raytheon in May, and losing bidder Harris Corp. filed a protest. The Navy reviewed...

 [10-01-07 – Satellite Today]  Qualcomm Inc. has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide the United States and Mexico with near a satellite-based vehicle tracking system, the Transportation Department announced Sept. 27. The contract will provide the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with the location, speed information, trip details, date, time...

[09-28-07 – Satellite Today]  GeoEye Inc. has secured $270 million of launch and first-year in-orbit insurance for its GeoEye-1 imaging satellite, the company announced Sept. 26. GeoEye-1, developed under the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s NextView program and manufactured by General Dynamics/Advanced Information Systems, will be able to collect images with a ground resolution of less...

After four years in Iraq providing both the U.S. government and the provisional Iraqi government with satellite telecommunications systems, Proactive Communication Inc. (PCI) is ready to expand its reach in the United States, according to the company’s CEO. In 2003, PCI received a contract to support Operation Iraqi Freedom by providing Internet Protocol (IP) support...

[09-26-07 – Satellite Today] Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $178 million NASA contract to design and build an instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R series, Lockheed Martin announced Sept. 25. The Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) will be developed at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, Calif., the research and...

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Comtech EF Data Corp., a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., received a contract to provide satellite communications equipment to support an unnamed U.S. government agency’s satellite-based communications network, the company announced Sept. 24. The order includes the SLM-5650 satellite modem, the Vipersat management system, redundancy switches and tranceivers. The SLM-5650 was...

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  General Dynamics Satcom Technologies has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and support services for the Joint Network Node-Network (JNN-N) program, the company announced Sept. 24. Under a $24 million contract from Army Communications-Electronics Command, General Dynamics will provide 33 satellite transportable terminals and...

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  Lockheed Martin has delivered the payload shipment module for the Flight 3 Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite to Northrop Grumman Space Technology, the U.S. Air Force announced. The payload equipment module consists of structural panels that provide housing for all spacecraft bus and payload systems as well as thermal control....

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. (TCS) has been awarded a $2.4 million contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and maintenance for the U.S. 1st Calvary division, the company announced Sept. 21. The initial order of TCS  SwiftLink VSATs will be delivered to the division before the end of September....