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SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center in which they will provide portable SATCOM terminals.
Read MoreThe Space Foundation has named the United States Air Force as the recipient of the 2008 Space Achievement Award.
Read MoreGlobecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] has announced today they and six other companies have been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center.
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] was awarded the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment (SEMS) II contract to increase effectiveness, reliability, and performance, while reducing total cost of ownership, for a variety of classified and unclassified Air Force weather systems.
Read MoreThe MILSATCOM Systems Wing has informed all that the payload module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF) military communications satellite was successfully delivered three weeks ahead of schedule from Northrop Grumman's facilities in Redondo Beach, California, to the AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin facilities, located in Sunnyvale, California.
Read MoreHarris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] has received a contract from the Defence Forces of Norway to provide several thousand RF-7800S Secure Personal Radios.
Read MoreAccording to Marine General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there is a high degree of confidence that the U.S. Navy missile launched yesterday scored a direct hit on the falling U.S. spysat, once the order to proceed had been received from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Read MoreThe first operational traffic was carried successfully on Skynet 5B at 05:00 on January 28th, 2008, one month earlier than originally planned. Skynet 5B was launched on an Ariane 5 launcher on November 9th, 2007, from Kourou, French Guiana.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy has shot down the wayward U.S. spysat over the Pacific... the missile struck the satellite 130 miles in the atmosphere and destroyed the satellite at 10:30 EST.
Read MoreOK, the plan to destroy the failed U.S. spysat continues to develop... this coming Thursday offers the window of opportunity for annihilation, the day after the Atlantis shuttle makes it home.
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