Companies get a crack at half a billion dollars to host Pentagon payloads on their satellites. And no, Iridium isn’t one of them.
July 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM EDT
The Pentagon announced winners of the much anticipated Hosted Payload Solutions program, which will allow the government to mount payloads — electronics and sensors packages generally — on a commercial company’s spacecraft, so government doesn’t have to manufacture one themselves...