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Powerful Communications Satellite for US and Allies Shipped for Launch
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"Four AEHF satellites in orbit means protected global connectivity for those who need it most, from the president to deployed soldiers," said Michael Cacheiro, ...
Russia Grants Kazakhstan Access to Military Satellite Signal
Aug 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Kazakhstan has been granted access to a high-precision Glonass navigation signal," the official with the Kazakhstan Defense Ministry's Aerospace Committee, Kaz...
Lockheed receives contract for advanced satellite communications
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
The modification, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, provides for SV 4 operational resiliency phase one of the AEHF. Work will be performed in Sunny...
Navy Satellite System Receives Green Light for Expanded Operational Use
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
The authorization paves the way for Navy and Marine Corps early-adopter commands to use the system on deployment as early as this fall, primarily in the Pacific...
Why Ku-band HTS is superior for AISR
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
These new HTS have re-energized an enduring debate regarding which satellite frequency - Ku-band or Ka-band - provides the best customer service. In the area of...
Asia is a huge growth market for government SATCOM
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Requirements for border security are one of the most significant factors driving this growth, according to MnM. Asian countries are also engaging in more peace-...
DARPA, Lockheed Martin Demonstrate Technologies to Enable a Connected Warfighter Network
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
The demonstrations held at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, were part of a five year DARPA program called System of Systems Integration T...
IntelsatOne FlexAir Coming This Summer for Government Aircraft Operations
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
Unlike wide-beam satellites, these new HTS platforms use power-concentrated spot beams to deliver signals reaching small mobility terminals and allowing users t...
Intelsat General Delivers Programming For American Forces Network
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
The audio and video feeds originate at a broadcast center in Southern California before going over the IntelsatOne Fiber Network to teleports and points of pres...
Altamira receives $25 million contract for radio frequency research
Jul 10, 2018 (UPI)
The five year contract, announced Tuesday, will apply to distributed radio frequency measures, advanced waveform design, adaptive signal processing and distribu...
New Land Mobile Technology Driving The Need For Modern Satcom Capabilities
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
In a groundbreaking example of such transformation, last fall the U.S. Army successfully tested a driverless tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer was one of fou...
On-the-move communications system set to field this fall
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
The Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is a narrowband satellite communication system that uses commercial cell phone technology to increase access to voice...
Lockheed Martin's 5th AEHF comsat completes launch environment test
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
For the 39 days of Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) testing, AEHF-5 was subjected to extreme cold and heat in zero atmosphere, to simulate its upcoming on-orbit li...
IAP Worldwide Services tapped for satellite systems
May 18, 2018 (UPI)
The contract award from U.S. Army Contracting Command enables the company to provide "Satellite Baseband Systems satellite communications infrastructure" under ...
Navy awards contract to ViaSat for aircraft communication systems
May 14, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is a modified contract worth $85.5 million. The contract modifies a previous Pentagon award under the t...
Hughes to prototype Multi-Modem Adaptor for Wideband SATCOM use
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
Under this award, Hughes will be responsible for prototyping a Flexible Modem Interface (FMI) for military terminals that will enable various military and comme...
Silent Sentry: Protecting Space Communications
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force uses many types of satellite communications to transmit data all around the globe. With the encryption of data, the U.S. Air Force denies pry...
Harris tapped for counter communication systems
Apr 25, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $44.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modifi...
Russia Launches Heavy Rocket with Military Satellite
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The Proton-M heavy-lift rocket with a payload commissioned by the Defense Ministry was successfully launched from Baikonur," a spokesperson for the ministry to...
India Struggling to Establish Lost Link With Crucial Communication Satellite
Apr 04, 2018 (Sputnik)
The communication satellite was launched on March 29 this year from the spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. "The scientists completed the second orbit rais...
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