A General Dynamics business unit and NASA have completed a laboratory assessment of new ground infrastructure systems designed to help the agency manage a constellation of tracking and data relay satellites. General Dynamics Mission Systems supported the final system acceptance test at a facility in Scottsdale, Ariz., as part of the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project, the company […] More

General Dynamics‘ mission systems business and Telesat have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop user terminals designed to operate with the latter company’s low-Earth orbit satellites. Canada-based Telesat said Tuesday its LEO constellation will initially consist of 120 satellites and be designed to provide fiber-like broadband connectivity for government and commercial customers worldwide. “Our customers […] More

General Dynamics’ mission systems business has helped NASA install equipment needed to modernize the agency’s Space Network ground terminals at the White Sands Complex in New Mexico. The company said Wednesday it completed the Space Network and Ground Segment Sustainment program’s installation and initial checkout phase meant to prepare the terminals for a communications test slated to occur […] More

General Dynamics’ mission systems business has secured a contract from the U.S. Navy to update and maintain a satellite simulator at the Naval Postgraduate School. The simulator at the school’s Spacecraft Research and Design Center/Adaptive Optics Center of Excellence is a model of a communications satellite, Navy Fleet Satellite, and works to help students improve their […] More

A General Dynamics-built transponder conducted the final data transmissions of the Cassini spacecraft while the orbiter plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday to end its 13-year mission. The company said Friday its radio worked to send information from Cassini to Earth at a distance of approximately 900 million miles and within 84 minutes for each radio […] More

A General Dynamics-led consortium has helped NASA integrate, test and deploy antenna and related control systems for the agency’s Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment infrastructure. The consortium also demonstrated how the SGSS Increment A4 would operate with a tracking and data relay system satellite in a simulation, General Dynamics said Monday. “This milestone, combined with program achievements […] More

Telesat has partnered with General Dynamics and Ball Aerospace to demonstrate space-based data exploitation and processing approaches with the use of commercial satellite technology. The partnerships will use Telesat-built satellite and network emulation systems for live demo events in support of the U.S. Air Force's Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations program.

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A Lockheed Martin-built satellite communications platform has completed multiservice operational test and evaluation and is slated to become fully available across tactical warfare systems.

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