Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded the first phase of a US$30 million firm-fixed price U.S. Air Force contract to develop a global space surveillance ground radar system.

Harris Corporation has submitted its proposal to provide advanced communications and information assurance solutions for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Advanced Control Segment (OCX) as a member of the Northrop Grumman team. The proposal begins the downselect phase of the programme.

China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co., Ltd (China DBsat) confirmed that Sinosat-3 had suffered a temporary outage. Technical details of the malfunction have not been unveiled.

Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army recently completed successful testing of the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF, satellite communications production terminals.