Government/Military

[10-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Boeing has acquired signals from the first Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, the company announced Oct. 11. The satellite, one of five Boeing is building for...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  ViaSat Inc. and Smart Digital Communications Bhd. recently collected real-time data to validate Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tsunami predictions, ViaSat announced Oct 9. Telemetry and...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully completed the System Acceptance Test of a Common Command and Telemetry System between the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  Antenna Technology Communications Inc. has won a $1.2 million bid to provide the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an Intermediate Frequency (IF) matrix...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today] The American Red Cross has selected   Global Relief Technologies LLC (GRT) to equip disaster relief professionals with equipment to augment disaster response communications, GRT announced Oct....

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded a $56 million contract to reset, repair and upgrade DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub Satcom trucks used in...

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. will be launching two new Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites in the fourth quarter 2008, the company announced Oct. 8. The satellites,...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today] The  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed Oct.5 that the Kaguya (Selene) satellite was injected into lunar orbit, a first for Japan. JAXA said the satellite...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today]  MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has won a $65 million contract to provide the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) with a space-based data collection...

[10-05-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has received delivery orders worth $8.7 million to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with VSAT fly-away systems and satellite transportable terminals, the company announced...