Government/Military

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Eumetsat (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to use satellite technology...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Raytheon Co. has completed the system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS Control Segment (OCX), Raytheon announced March 28.     In November, Raytheon...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] The fourth SAR-Lupe satellite was placed into orbit March 27 by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket, the German Ministry of Defence announced.     This is the fourth...

[Satellite Today 3-26-08] Lockheed Martin completed static load testing of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced March 26.      The test, which validated the satellite’s...

[Satellite Today – 3-25-08] Radyne Corp. business unit Xicom Technology received a $5.8 million order to provide tri-band and Ka-band power amplifiers to the U.S. Air Force, Radyne announced March...

[Satellite Today – 3-24-08] SpaceDev Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop next-generation seal technologies for instrument covers for NASA, SpaceDev announced March 24.     Under the six-month Phase...

[Satellite Today – 3-24-08] DataPath Inc. has been awarded a $6.6 million contract to support DataPath terminals and trucks used in the U.S. Army‘s Joint Network Node (JNN)/Warfighter Information Network-Tactical...

[Satellite News – 3-18-08] The deadline for proposals to build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R) program passed March 11, with Northrop Grumman, Boeing Co. and...

[Satellite Today – 3-19-08] RT Logic will provide Boeing Co. with a modulator/receiver system that will be used to support of the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Survivor/Evader Locator (CSEL) Modulator/Receiver...

[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] Maurici Lucena, director general of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency,), will chair the European Space Agency (ESA) Council for the next two years, ESA announced March...