Government/Military

The U.S. Air Force failed to follow federal regulations in awarding a contract to Boeing Co. to develop a sensor for a next-generation government weather satellite, according to an audit...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is in the middle of a critical period as it aims to put together programs that will benefit people all over Europe. The role of...

The New York Air National Guard is turning to satellite-enabled technology for its research in Antarctica. Using the Iridium satellite network for voice and data communications, The unit has installed...

The U.S. Air Force has asked for industry input to begin defining the alternative payloads that the service may pursue in place of buying a full complement of Space Based...

Iridium is providing satellite data links for a new system of 31 ocean buoys being deployed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The second-generation Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis...

Globalstar applied for authority from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use its entire assigned Mobile Satellite Services spectrum for Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services in the United States,...

Ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are putting more emphasis on the need for reliable, robust and bandwidth-rich satcom-on-the-move (SOTM) solutions. The U.S. military and Allied Forces relies primarily...

The final report from NASA‘s Exploration Systems Architecture Study threw its support behind using a shuttle-derived solid rocket booster (SRB)-based launch vehicle for the agency’s mission to return humans to...

The U.S. government will fund NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond in coming decades, even though federal finances are constrained by daunting deficits, an industry leader predicted. For...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has demonstrated a prototype satellite navigation system accurate enough to direct vision-impaired pedestrians. This system, designed with the Spanish National Organisation for the Blind, is...