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Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., for a $29.5 million contract to support the execution of the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space satellite program (ANGELS).
Read MoreIn close cooperation with the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) deployed two payloads of nuclear detonation detection equipment aboard an Air Force satellite. The payloads were separated from the second stage booster at 3:22 a.m. EST yesterday morning.
Read MoreA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Australian Department of Defence and the U.S. Navy, which covers the arrangements for a joint military communications, ground station near Geraldton, Western Australia. This new ground station will support the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Read MoreThe final Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] built satellite in support of the Defense Support Program for the U.S. Air Force will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday, November 10th, from Launch Complex 37.
Read MoreNorsat International Inc. [TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF] unveiled their GLOBETrekker X-Band at the 9th annual Global MilSatCom Conference, Europe’s largest independent military satellite communications conference. The Norsat GLOBETrekker X-Band terminal is available as a highly integrated system.
Read MoreIridium Satellite continues to relish the continued growth in the firm’s military sector business—they know have cumulative Department of Defense (DoD) subscribers reaching 31,000. Military traffic through Iridium’s satellite network is up more than nine percent (an increase of almost 10 percent over last year).
Read MoreThe third SAR-Lupe satellite was boosted into orbit today from the Plesetsk Space Center by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket. The lift-off occurred at 1:51 a.m., CET. The satellite will provide high-res images to the German Ministry of Defense.
Read MoreThales Communications, Inc., has received, from the Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JEPO JTRS), two awards for their AN/PRC-148 JTRS handheld radio. The award is under the Consolidated, Interim, Single-channel, Handheld Radio (CISCHR) contract.
Read MoreEMS Technologies, Inc. [NASDAQ: ELMG] and Windmill International, Inc. announced at MILCOM 2007 that the military has started their evaluation of the first fully portable Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Receive Suite.
Read MoreRaytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] will pursue the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3, with a team of com solutions providers. HC3, the next generation of Army SATCOM, is a family of reconfigurable communications terminals that will provide soldiers with high-capacity, multiband, multimode connectivity.
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