WASHINGTON — The global satellite operator SES will provide services to the U.S. Defense Department under a five-year agreement worth up to $270 million, the company announced Nov. 8. The agreement is for satellite communications services from the SES O3b broadband constellation in medium Earth orbit. The contract is a […]
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TAMPA, Fla. — South Korea’s Hanwha Systems, the OneWeb investor with plans for its own low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellation, has secured regulatory permission to operate as a satellite communications provider in the country. The approval from South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT enables Hanwha Systems to provide […]
WASHINGTON — SES Space & Defense announced June 28 it won a five-year contract worth up to $134 million to provide X-band satellite communications services to the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract is a “global X-band blanket purchase agreement,” the first major defense deal awarded to SES’ U.S. subsidiary […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force selected Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to develop competing ground systems for a next-generation space communications network that can survive a nuclear attack. Each company won a $30 million contract to develop prototypes of a ground system for the Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program, the […]
WASHINGTON — In an effort to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of U.S. military services, the Space Force will propose a new plan to acquire high-capacity satellite communications. Senior members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are set to be briefed on this plan in the coming weeks, said […]
WASHINGTON — Among the many new products unveiled this week at the Satellite 2023 convention were mobile communications terminals capable of talking to military and commercial satellites. Intellian Technologies rolled out a new terminal it developed with the U.S. Navy that provides simultaneous connectivity with commercial Ka-band satellites and with […]
WASHINGTON — Boeing completed a demonstration of a U.S. military ground system designed to protect satellite communications from jamming attacks, the company announced March 7. In the demonstration of the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES), Boeing integrated anti-jam software and hardware with the existing military satcom architecture. The company developed […]
WASHINGTON — The technology race to connect cellphones to satellite networks has not gone unnoticed by the Defense Department. “That capability is exciting to us,” Clare Grason, head of the Pentagon’s commercial satellite communications office, said Feb. 28. Emerging communications services that connect phones directly to satellites are attractive to […]