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SpaceSpace Force Offers Free Cyber Scanning to Commercial Satellite Vendors
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief […]
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SpacePentagon IG Upholds Decision on Advised USSPACECOM Move, Yet Former SECAF Mum on Trump Meeting
A new Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report concluded that a Department of the Air Force decision in January 2021 to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from its temporary headquarters at […]
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Business/FinancialBoeing to Move Headquarters From Chicago to Northern Virginia
Boeing [BA] is moving its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, the company said May 5. The company plans to develop a research and technology hub in the area focused […]
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SpaceSDA Official: ‘We’re Not Going to Pick the Winners. The Winners Are Going To Deliver’
The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to use spiral development to field small satellites for military use every two years–a fraction of the time required for large DoD acquisition programs, […]
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SpaceU.S. Formalizes Policy Against ASAT Tests, Calls for International Norms in Space
The United States is committing to refrain from direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile testing in an effort to set an international norm for responsible behavior in space. Vice President Kamala Harris […]
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SpaceNRO Launches Mission on Reused SpaceX Booster for the First Time
SpaceX launched a classified satellite early Sunday morning for the National Reconnaissance Office, using a flight-proven booster, marking the first time an NRO mission has flown on a reused rocket. The mission, […]
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CyberNIST Seeks Comment on Cybersecurity Framework for PNT Ground Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking comments on a cybersecurity framework for satellite ground systems in positioning, timing, and navigation (PNT) systems. The draft document, “Satellite Ground Segment: […]
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SpaceTimeline for Fielding Unified Data Library Uncertain, As U.S. Space Force Continues Prototyping
The timeline for fielding the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Unified Data Library (UDL) is uncertain, as the service continues prototyping for UDL to serve as a centralized, cloud-based data repository […]
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SpaceChina and Russia Increased Number of Satellites 70 Percent Between 2019 and 2021, DIA Says
Between 2019 and 2021, China doubled its number of satellites in orbit from some 250 to 499, while Russia increased its number of orbiting satellites from about 150 in 2019 […]
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SpaceULA Orders Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 Engines to Support Amazon Kuiper Launch
Aerojet Rocketdyne [ARJD] secured its largest-ever RL10 engine contract to deliver 116 engines for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur Rocket. Aerojet announced the deal on Monday, financial terms were not […]
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