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Boeing has signed a deal to design and build seven medium earth orbit satellites for SES to deliver data communications services for clients worldwide. O3b mPOWER satellites will feature Boeing’s digital payload technologies along with customized electronics from the 702 satellite platform, the company said Monday. Paul Rusnock, chairman and CEO of Boeing Satellite Systems International, […] More
The U.S. Army has utilized Comtech Telecommunications-developed satellite equipment to support disaster recovery operations in Texas following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey. Comtech said Wednesday that the 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion has used the company’s AN/TSC-198 Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point equipment to provide voice, data, video teleconferencing and […] More
Lockheed Martin and EchoStar have retrieved the EchoStar III communications satellite in a joint operation that culminated in its deactivation and relocation to a graveyard orbit. The satellite’s retirement was executed in line with Federal Communications Commission rules in response to an incident involving the satellite in July, Lockheed said Wednesday. EchoStar unveiled in early August that […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a satellite manufacturing facility that will be built at the company’s Colorado campus, Denver Business Journal reported Wednesday. The company announced in early August it made a $350 million investment to build the 266,000-square-foot Gateway Center, which is scheduled to open in 2020. Rick Ambrose, executive […] More
Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin have jointly led an industry team that tested the capacity of a tactical terminal to connect with an Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite managed by the U.S. Air Force. The over-the-air test aimed to demonstrate if the Low Cost Terminal could operate with the Defense Department‘s protected communications network, Northrop said Wednesday. LCT is designed […] More
A U.S. Air Force satellite is scheduled Friday to launch into orbit aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur IV rocket that will lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Spaceflight Insider reported Wednesday. The Operationally Responsive Space 5 satellite will work to provide situational awareness capabilities as the U.S. military […] More
Mike Gold, vice president of operations at Space Systems Loral, has said he believes public and private sector organizations should collaborate in efforts to strengthen the cybersecurity and encryption capacity of U.S. satellites, Washington Examiner reported Thursday. “In terms of encryption, one of the issues — and really opportunities — is to ensure that encryption […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied the propulsion systems for United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket that launched a Boeing-built communications satellite Friday to join NASA‘s Space Network. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop Atlas V equipped with six helium pressurization tanks, an RL10C-1 upper-stage engine and 12 Centaur reaction control system […] More
DigitalGlobe has entered into a multiyear agreement with Australia’s defense department to provide the Australian government access to the company’s commercial satellite imaging constellation. The department can task and download imagery from five DigitalGlobe satellites that include WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 to a ground station under the Direct Access Program contract, the company said Tuesday. DigitalGlobe expects to generate $83 […] More
An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a $48.8 million contract to inspect, test and update U.S. Army and Marine Corps AN/TSC-156 tactical satellite communications terminals. The Defense Department said Friday that L3’s Communication Systems West business in Salt Lake City, Utah, will support AN/TSC-156B/D and AN/TSC-156C terminals under the contract. Work is scheduled to occur through through Aug. 10, 2022. The Army Contracting Command is […] More
A group of Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians has integrated a modernized A2100 communications satellite built for Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia ahead of a scheduled launch in the second quarter of 2018. Lockheed said Thursday Hellas-Sat/SaudiGeosat-1 is designed to provide telecommunications services for Arabsat customers across the Middle East, Africa […] More
Executives at Harris‘ space and intelligence systems unit have said the company aims to focus on the development of small satellites in a push to test electronics and other technology aboard larger spacecraft, Space News reported Wednesday. Sid Stewart, manager of the satellite solutions group, told Space News the company’s transition to small satellites from hosted […] More
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