Babcock International Group Plc has announced it has been awarded the contract to manage and operate Skynet, the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) military satellite communications system. The six-year contract, commencing in March 2023, has an initial value of more than £400 million and forms part of the MOD’s £6 billion ...
The UK will invest £1.4 billion to bolster our national interests in space, as part of the newly-published first Defence Space Strategy. Following publication of the National Space Strategy in September last year, the Defence Space Strategy (DSS) outlines how Defence will protect the UK’s national interests in space in an era of ever-growing threats, ...
The UK’s Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin, has visited Airbus in Stevenage and pushed the button to start production of the first panel skin for the UK MOD’s next generation military communications satellite Skynet 6A. The Defence Minister started the high precision cutting machine to profile the first aluminium panels ...
The Defence Secretary has announced a new competition to win the contract to operate and maintain SKYNET 6, the UK’s new military communications system. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced in a speech at the DSEi conference that the MOD was investing in the new SKYNET 6 military communications satellite system. The ...