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SpaceAFRL Seeks New Mission Planning Tools for Satellites
The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., want industry input on new mission planning tools […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Seeks to Bolster Domestic Electronics Capacity for Future Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build high-performance Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices […]
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SpaceSDA Renames LEO Constellation to Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has renamed its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, or PWSA. SDA announced the change on Monday, changing the name from the […]
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SpaceSpaceX Launches the US Space Force’s Sixth GPS III Satellite
SpaceX launched the sixth GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force on a Falcon 9 mission early Wednesday morning. The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellite is part of the military’s work to modernize the […]
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Air ForceRaytheon Work Continues on Cobra Dane Sustainment
On March 16, 2018, the Department of the Air Force awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a seven-year, $511 million contract award for operations and maintenance of the AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane missile […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Launches Falcon Heavy with Boeing and Northrop Grumman Satellites
U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lofted the Boeing [BA] Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM (CBAS)-2 and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE)-3A communications […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Commander Points to Benefits of Disaggregated Space Architectures
The head of U.S. Space Force said this week that the war in Ukraine has emphasized the “criticality of space in modern warfare” and said that commercial systems will continue […]
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Air ForceU.S. Space Force Looks for Bidders for Cobra Dane Systems Lifecycle Sustainment.
The U.S. Space Force this week issued a solicitation to sustain systems for the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar. The chosen contractor will provide life-cycle management of systems […]
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SpaceRaytheon and Boeing’s Millenium Space Systems to Start Work on MEO Missile Tracking System
Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems–both in El Segundo, Calif.–are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Launches Orion Space Solutions’ Cubesat EWS Demonstration
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command said that it launched a Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) technical demonstration cube satellite by Colorado’s Orion Space Solutions aboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission […]