DefenceTalkAirbus Defence and Space announced during Satellite 2015 the forthcoming move of its Skynet 5A satellite. The move of Skynet 5A will enable delivery of protected and secure satcom services in the new coverage footprint from mid-2015. Airbus Defence and Space owns and operates the hardened Skynet X-band satellite constellation of 8 satellites and the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/skynet-5-move-will-place-military-satcom-over-asia-pacific-region-63559/

DefenceTalkWith demand for Earth imagery increasing, manufacturers are expected to produce more than 200 remote sensing satellites over the next 10 years, according to Forecast International. The company’s new study “The Market for Civil & Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites” reports that during the 2015-2024 forecast period, the value of production will be an estimated $27.2 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/remote-sensing-satellite-market-reaching-new-heights-63499/

DefenceTalkTwo Boeing 702SP (small platform) satellites, the first all-electric propulsion satellites to launch, have sent initial signals from space, marking the first step toward ABS, based in Bermuda, and Eutelsat, based in Paris, being able to provide enhanced communication services to their customers. What’s more, the satellites were launched as a conjoined stack on a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/boeing-sends-first-all-electric-propulsion-satellites-in-orbit-63357/

DefenceTalkDigitalGlobe, Inc. (DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery and geospatial solutions, today announced an agreement to provide another innovative commercial customer with access to its Geospatial Big Data (GBD) platform, paving the way for new analytic products serving the insurance, forestry, oil and gas, and mining industries. DigitalGlobe’s cloud-based GBD offering is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/digitalglobe-geospatial-big-data-platform-enabling-new-commercial-cloud-solutions-62776/

DefenceTalkIn a bid to keep the US military’s technological edge, President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for 2016 calls for an increase in defense spending to pay for high-tech weapons and training. The $585 billion request for the Pentagon would devote $107.7 billion to big-ticket weapons — an increase of $14.1 billion over the previous budget. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-asks-for-more-funds-for-high-tech-weapons-62552/

DefenceTalkThe nuclear satellite communication terminals that connect U.S. leaders to Minuteman combat crews in the event of a nuclear attack are currently undergoing an upgrade and scheduled to begin operational testing this month. The Air Force will be updating its intercontinental ballistic missile communication systems located in the ICBM Launch Control Centers (LCC). This is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nuclear-satellite-terminal-upgrade-to-begin-operational-testing-61909/

DefenceTalkIndia will, for the first time, join hands with China to develop remote sensing satellites. Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) chairman K Radhakrishnan told TOI that an agreement in this regard was signed two days ago. Right from the initial days of its space program in the 1960s, India had collaborated with the US, USSR […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-to-develop-remote-sensing-satellites-with-china-60626/

DefenceTalkTo compensate the frustration over the endless search for missing the Malaysian airliner, Chinese scientists have doubled efforts to promote their project of a huge satellites network, which will enable Beijing to monitor the whole world. As the mission to find the passenger jet MH370 which disappeared off the radars on March 8 with 239 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-eyes-global-monitoring-network-of-surveillance-satellites-59216/

DefenceTalkThe sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station. The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military intelligence satellites, which a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-uae-satellite-deal-shaky-after-us-spy-tech-discovered-onboard-50043/

DefenceTalkESA’s Galileo satellites have achieved their very first aerial fix of longitude, latitude and altitude, enabling the inflight tracking of a test aircraft. ESA’s four Galileo satellites in orbit have supported months of positioning tests on the ground across Europe since the very first fix back in March. Now the first aerial tracking using Galileo […]https://www.defencetalk.com/galileo-achieves-its-first-airborne-tracking-49937/