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Airbus signs contract with UK Ministry of Defence for Skynet 6A satellite
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
Richard Franklin, Airbus Defence and Space UK Managing Director said: "Airbus is extremely proud to be awarded this critical UK defence contract continuing our ...
South Korea's first military satellite launched
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North, which invaded in 1950. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the...
SpaceX launches South Korean communications satellite
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off as planned at 5:30 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station into a partly cloudy sky and headed over the Atlantic Ocean. The miss...
South Korea set to launch 1st military communications satellite
Jul 17, 2020 (UPI)
Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is planned during a nearly three-hour window starting at 5 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Sta...
Alion to provide support to USAF for spectrum management
Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)
Alion will conduct studies and measurements to identify opportunities for early Advanced Wireless Services-3 (AWS-3) (i.e., 1755-1780 MHz) network deployment an...
UK Govt to acquire OneWeb satellite constellation
Jul 05, 2020 (SPX)
The move signals the Government's ambition for the UK to be a pioneer in the research, development, manufacturing, and exploitation of novel satellite technolog...
USSF Commercial SATCOM Office announces development of new security program
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to advance the security posture of current and future commercial satellite communications procurements for the Department...
FFI selects GomSpace to build military communication satellite
Jun 24, 2020 (SPX)
The satellite will demonstrate military tactical communications on the UHF band from a polar Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The primary mission objective is to demonstr...
Hughes demonstrates Live, HD transmission over satellite from an in-flight Black Hawk helicopter
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
"Customers from as far away as Spain, India and the United Arab Emirates watched the Hughes HeloSat demonstration in Tennessee via livestream - the epitome of B...
Long-range communications without large, power-hungry antennas
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
To break this dependence on big antennas and amplifiers, DARPA recently announced the Resilient Networked Distributed Mosaic Communications (RN DMC) program. RN...
Marine Corps satellite communications system exceeding performance expectations
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
Based on field user evaluations, the upgraded technology is performing beyond expectations. The Mobile User Objective System is a next-generation, narrowband sa...
General Atomics partners with space development agency to demonstrate optical intersatellite link
Jun 09, 2020 (SPX)
This will be one of the first Department of Defense contracted efforts to develop and deploy a state-of-the-art 1550nm LCT to test capabilities to increase the ...
UK nears final stage of Skynet satellite contract competition
May 26, 2020 (Sputnik)
According to a report by C4ISRNET, the invitation to industry consortia to "negotiate documents" was expected to occur last week. However, industry executives, ...
Roccor creates Helical L-Band Antenna for first-ever space demonstration of Link 16 Networks
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
The project is in partnership with Viasat, Inc. and the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, and is part of the world's first-ever Link 16-...
NIST researchers boost microwave signal stability a hundredfold
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The work transfers the already superb stability of the cutting-edge laboratory atomic clocks operating at optical frequencies to microwave frequencies, which ar...
IBCS Goes Agile
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Under the contract, Northrop Grumman and the Army are partnering to prototype an Agile development process in order to build, test and field capabilities faster...
Northrop Grumman to rapidly develop net-centric gateway
May 04, 2020 (SPX)
Under the contract, awarded by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's C3I and Networks Directorate, Northrop Grumman is providing engineering, manage...
Dominate the electromagnetic spectrum
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
In this area, the Consortium Management Group (CMG)/ Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5), on behalf of the U.S. Army, awarded ...
L3Harris Technologies awarded third LRIP order on US Army's HMS Manpack IDIQ contract
Apr 30, 2020 (SPX)
This LRIP will be followed by an Operational Test that will inform a Full Rate Production decision for the AN/PRC-158 and other HMS products. The IDIQ contract ...
Lockheed Martin's new contract with DARPA can disrupt the future of space
Apr 28, 2020 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin will define and manage interfaces between Blackjack's bus, payload and Pit Boss - its autonomous, space-based command and data processor. Additi...
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