Government/Military

BA The story of the Iridium satellite telephone service provides a blueprint for savvy investors who may want to rescue Boeing Co.‘s Connexion satellite Internet service by capitalizing on the...

Lockheed Martin is poised to compete for some $8 billion or more annually in work that NASA will award in coming years, including the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) program, the...

A technology partnership between H.A.B.I.T. Research Ltd., a Victoria-based company that designs, develops and manufactures technology for wildlife research, and Swiss positioning technology provider u-blox, is making it possible for...

Changes in thinking, along with technology advancements, are helping the U.S. Department of Defense deliver satellite imagery to the units in the field more quickly, helping to improve operations and...

NASA selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Rocketplane Kistler to demonstrate their ability to loft cargo and eventually crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). In the demonstration contracts,...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is committed to the commercial imagery sector and sees the opportunity to leverage that industry in the future, said the agency’s new director. “We...

NASA’s two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites offer a possible new approach to understanding how earthquakes work. Research recently conducted paints a clearer picture of how the Earth...

The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to continue work on a nanosatellite development program, the company announced Aug. 2. Under the contract from the Air Force Research...

The largest maize maze in the world has opened in York, England, and fittingly, the maze design was created using space age technology. Pioneering GPS equipment was employed to plot...

With civil space initiatives being pushed with significant momentum, many projects have passed milestones that are making some industry executives re-evaluate this sector. Recently, Boeing Co. successfully tested a key...