AMERGINT Unveils ERS Architecture for Launch & Test Ranges at ITC 2016

AMERGINT Technologies is previewing its new Enterprise Range Services (ERS) architecture at ITC 2016 in Glendale, Arizona, from November 8-10. Tony Guidry, AMERGINT’s Director of Launch, Range and Manned Spaceflight Systems, said...

USS San Diego Completes NASA Orion Mission (Video)

Amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22) successfully completed recovery operations of the NASA Orion crew module Nov. 1. The Underway Recovery Test-5 (URT-5) is part of a U.S. government interagency...

Harris Corp New ABI Key to US Gov’t Next-Gen Weather Mission (Video)

Harris Corporation’s new Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) weather instrument and enterprise ground system will be key components of the GOES-R system. The GOES-R system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation...

Lockheed Martin CEO Addresses Canadian Aerospace Summit (Video)

Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin and Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association addressed approximately 800 executives and decision-makers from the aerospace industry as well as government and...

Aireon Selected to Evaluate Space-Based ADS-B for German Airspace

Aireon has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), Germany's Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) to evaluate the safety, efficiency and cost benefits of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast...

EchoStar XXI to Provide Mobile Satellite Capacity for Europe (Video)

Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, today announced that the EchoStar XXI satellite, designed and built for EchoStar Corporation, has arrived at the Baikonur...

Lockheed Martin Modernizing GPS Ground Control Sys for USAF (Video)

Lockheed Martin has completed a major upgrade to modernize the current ground control system of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation. The Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Upgrade #2 (CUP2) project...

$95M Contract Award for New Lab at NASA Langley

A contract to build a laboratory at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has been awarded to W.M. Jordan Co. in Newport News by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The...

First Image Released from Harris-Built Imaging from WorldView-4 Satellite

DigitalGlobe has released the initial image from the Harris Corporation high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging system, which is onboard the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 commercial Earth imaging satellite. The first image, captured on November 26, shows...

‘God Speed John Glenn’, the Passing of America’s Astronaut (Video)

With our deepest respect and greatest admiration, Muskingum University remembers John H. Glenn, Jr. today. The world knew John Glenn as a pioneering Mercury 7 and space shuttle Discovery astronaut, a four-term United States Senator,...