L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded a $121 million U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract to build space flight hardware to demonstrate the company’s solution for the Hypersonic and Ballistic […]
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Comtech Is Awarded Multi-Million $$$ By U.S. Navy For Satellite Earth Station Equipment
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced that during the firm’s second quarter of fiscal 2021, their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary— Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial […]
Virgin Orbit’s Launch of First Satellite for Dutch Ministry of Defense
Europe comes to southern California to launch Royal Netherlands Air Force’s (RNLAF) first ever satellite from the Virgin Orbit launch company. Virgin Orbit will conduct this mission from Mojave Air […]
Airbus Meets Milestone, One Step Closer to Building Next Gen Military Satellite
Airbus was awarded the Skynet 6A contract in July 2020 and teams across its sites in Stevenage, Portsmouth and Hawthorn have been working on the program to achieve this key […]
Quintech Matrix Switch Certified For Use In MET WGS Terminals
Quintech Electronics & Communications, Inc., an Evertz company, has announced the XTREME-256 matrix switch is certified for use in METs WGS Terminals. The XTREME-256 matrix switch was certified by Aberdeen […]
Redstone Arsenal In Alabama Preferred Choice For US Space Command HQ
The Secretary of the Air Force, on behalf of the Office of Secretary of Defense, selected Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred location for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. […]
L3Harris Demos Antenna Tech For USSF MILSATCOM
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully completed a technology demonstration, under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s […]
NextGen Federal Systems Secures USAF Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Contract
NextGen Federal Systems has been awarded the Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Research to Operations (R2O) contract by the US Air Force. MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s (MIT LL) research effort established […]
Over-the-Air Tests with K/Q-Band, Phased-Array, Multi-Beam Antenna on Protected Comms Satellite Successful For ThinKom
ThinKom Solutions, Inc., recently completed successful, over-the-air tests of a pair of 17-inch, active diameter, K-/Q-band phased-array antennas communicating through an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. The tests verified […]
Two Teledyne Paradise Datacom Modems Gain WGS Certification
Teledyne Paradise Datacom has announced that two of their flagship modems have officially been certified for use in the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system, the high capacity SATCOM system partnership […]