Government/Military

Iceye’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery will be integrated into Europe’s Copernicus imagery program, the company announced with the European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday. Iceye is the first European New Space company to take part in this program.  Copernicus is the world’s largest Earth Observation (EO) program and it is managed by ESA for...

NASA has set a goal to update its climate modeling to improve data on Earth’s water and energy cycle to combat climate change, the agency detailed in a climate action plan released Oct. 8.  The action plan comes as part of President Biden’s focus on climate change. NASA and 22 other large agencies have developed...

ST. LOUIS — A pending solicitation from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to quickly acquire commercial satellite imagery solutions will consist of three stages that will allow the agency to assess everything from emerging capabilities as well as on orbit and integrated solutions, an official with the agency’s commercial systems office said last Thursday. The first...

ST LOUIS – Competition in commercial remote sensing reached an inflection point in 2016 in the number of satellites on orbit, a number that doubled in 2017, and another milestone will soon be reached as more companies have Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and constellations being manufactured. In the next four to five years, 400 to...

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. agency that has spent its 60 years developing exquisite satellite systems to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for government needs said on Thursday it will shortly begin a new procurement effort designed to quickly assess and take advantage of commercial capabilities to meet needs and inform requirements. The Broad Agency...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has renewed its contract with Maxar Technologies to provide imagery and geospatial data for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The renewal, which was effective Sept. 1, allows Maxar to continue providing more than 400,000 U.S. government users with unclassified, online and offline, on-demand access to high-resolution commercial...

HawkEye 360 has received a $10 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), turning a pilot program for commercial Radio Frequency (RF) data into a long-term contract.  Under the $10 million, base year plus four option years contract announced Monday, HawkEye will provide the NGA the means to develop global datasets, which can monitor...

United Kingdom space companies applauded the country for releasing the first-ever national space strategy this week. The strategy sets out ambitions for a “Galactic Britain,” with goals to establish launch capabilities from Cornwall and Sutherland, and invest into military satellite communications.  The United Kingdom government set out its plans in a 42-page document published on...

David Micha joined Intelsat as president of government subsidiary Intelsat General in February of this year, after decades at L3 Technologies and the combined company L3Harris. In his first interview with Via Satellite, Micha talks about the dynamics of the U.S. government market. While he admits the relationship between the U.S. government and the commercial...

United Launch Alliance successfully launched NASA‘s Landsat 9 mission on Monday, which will monitor the Earth and study the impact of climate change. An Atlas V 401 configuration rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:12 a.m. PDT carrying Landsat 9. Landsat 9 is a joint mission of NASA...