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150 Companies Interested in RG-XX, U.S. Space Force Official Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, August 29th, 2025

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150 Companies Interested in RG-XX, U.S. Space Force Official Says

Depicted is an artist rendering of the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (U.S. Space Force)

To guide venture capital (VC) investment, the U.S. Space Force is increasingly engaging with VC firms as a departure from Space Force past practice, and one of the dividends of that engagement thus far has been the new RG-XX program to look for a commercial replacement for the Space Force's Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) by Northrop Grumman [NOC], a top service official said on Thursday. The VC community "is not normally a community we've interacted with in the…

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