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 former National Defense Space Architecture. SDA said this change will have ...

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 fleet of GPS satellites. GPS III SV06 provides three times greater accuracy and up to ...

U.S. Special Operations Command(SOCOM) late last month awarded Viasat a $325 million contract extension for tactical satellite communications and network management. It is a sole-source, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award worth up to $325 million over five years. It ...

The U.S. House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics introduced legislation on Wednesday that would establish a civil space situational awareness (SSA) capability under the Department of Commerce. Currently, the U.S. Department of Defense provides SSA services, but the Trump administration ...

NASA finalized a $3.2 billion contract with Boeing to manufacture the core and upper stages for future Space Launch System (SLS) rockets. The SLS rocket, which first launched in the Artemis I mission in November, will support future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. NASA initially ...

SpaceX is venturing into Earth observation (EO) and hosted payloads for national security use, with a new business line called Starshield. The company added a section to its website for Starshield on Friday, describing it as “SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support ...