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  • Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch

    A United Launch Alliance-built rocket launched early Friday morning to mark the 100th mission carried out by the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to carry the Morelos-3 communications satellite into space, William Graham writes. The Atlas V contains an RL10 engine-powered Centaur upper stage, […] More

  • Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launches, Transmits Initial Signals to Navy; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launches, Transmits Initial Signals to Navy; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    The U.S. Navy received initial signals from its new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite three hours after it launched Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Navy reported. MUOS-4 was scheduled to launch Monday but was postponed due to a tropical storm. Lockheed said MUOS-4 lifted off onboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket to […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar's Comm Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar’s Comm Satellite

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial launch services subsidiary will support the launch of EchoStar‘s Jupiter 2 or XIX communications satellite in late 2016 aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket. EchoStar said Wednesday the SSL-built EchoStar XIX is a Ka-band satellite that works to provide satellite Internet service to North American customers of HughesNet. The satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed-Built AEHF Military Satcom System Goes Live; Mark Calassa Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built AEHF Military Satcom System Goes Live; Mark Calassa Comments

    U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of the branch’s Space Command, declared initial operating capability Tuesday for a Lockheed Martin-built joint service satellite communications system. The Air Force said Thursday its 4th Space Operations Squadron operates the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, which is designed to help warfighters transmit protected data when they perform land, sea and air […] More

  • Northrop-Lockheed-TCS Team Completes IA Critical Design Review on AEHF Terminal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Lockheed-TCS Team Completes IA Critical Design Review on AEHF Terminal

    The Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and TeleCommunication Systems industry team is near hardware and software production for the Low Cost Terminal program after completing the critical design review on the terminal’s information assurance element. Northrop said Wednesday the review focused on the terminal’s protected communications function and used a payload engineering model of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite to test […] More

  • David Thompson: Orbital to Build Ka-band Satcom for Middle Eastern Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Thompson: Orbital to Build Ka-band Satcom for Middle Eastern Operator

    Orbital Sciences has won a contract of an undisclosed value to manufacture a lightweight broadband communications satellite for United Arab Emirates-based satcom operator Yahsat. The Al Yah satellite will be built on the Orbital GEOStar-3 infrastructure and work to provide Ka-band coverage for Yahsat customers throughout Brazil and Africa, Orbital said Wednesday. Yahsat plans to […] More

  • Airbus Inks Commercial Satcom Development Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Inks Commercial Satcom Development Deal

    Airbus‘ defense and space division has won a contract of an undisclosed value to manufacture a communications satellite for satcom operators EchoStar and SES. The EchoStar 105/SES-11 satellite will have Ku- and C-band hardware and offer coverage throughout the Americas, Airbus Group said Thursday. EchoStar and SES plan to launch the satcom by the end […] More

  • David Williams: Avanti Picks Orbital Sciences Satellite for EMEA Region Coverage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Williams: Avanti Picks Orbital Sciences Satellite for EMEA Region Coverage

    Orbital Sciences has received a contract to manufacture a HYLAS 4 satellite for Avanti Communications Group, which seeks to connect customers in existing and new markets to Ka-band broadband communications services. Orbital Sciences said Tuesday HYLAS 4 is based on its GEOStar-3 platform, will have a capacity of up to 28 gigahertz and feature 66 fixed and four steerable beams. David Williams, CEO […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Tool Helps Lift NASA Data Satellite Into Orbit; Steve Bouley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Tool Helps Lift NASA Data Satellite Into Orbit; Steve Bouley Comments

    An Aerojet Rocketdyne-made propulsion system worked to lift off an Atlas V rocket that carried a NASA communications satellite into space recently. Aerojet Rocketdyne provided 12 monopropellant thrusters, helium presurrization tanks and the RL10A-4-2 engine used on the rocket’s Centaur upper-stage structure, the company said Friday. NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite spacecraft launched from […] More