Space
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SpaceMuon Space Nabs SBIR Award To Mature Imaging Payload For Missile Warning And Tracking
Muon Space has received a $1.9 research and prototyping contract from the Space Force’s innovation arm to develop a variant of its Quickbeam multispectral electro-optical and infrared imaging payload to […]
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SpaceDefense Authorizers Recommend $500 Million Put Back For SDA’s Tranche 3 Transport Layer
A defense policy bill agreed to by leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees recommends $500 million for communications satellites that the Space Force zeroed earlier this year […]
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SpaceSpace Development Agency Expects To Resume Tranche 1 Launches In Early 2026
After launching the first two batches of its Tranche 1 satellites in September and October, the Space Development Agency (SDA) has paused additional launches until “early 2026” while one of […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman Conducts Static Test Of New SRM In Promontory
Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday conducted a static test of a new solid rocket motor (SRM) in Promontory, Utah, under the company’s Solid Motor Annual Rocket Technology Demonstrator (SMART Demo) […]
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SpaceWashington Harbour Partners Invests In Mission Solutions Firm Trusted Space
Washington Harbour Partners on Thursday said it has taken a “significant minority stake” in the space mission engineering company Trusted Space, an investment that will be put toward enhancing existing […]
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SpaceNRO Extends Work For HawkEye 360, Capella, ICEYE And Umbra
Herndon, Va.’s HawkEye 360 said on Wednesday that it has received a follow-on 23 months of National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) funding for work with the agency’s Commercial Systems Program Office […]
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SpaceSpace GMTI Evolution Of U.S. Satellite Proliferation, NRO Official Says
The number of U.S. satellites in a proliferated, low Earth orbit, ground moving target indication (GMTI) constellation will hinge on revisit rates required to view targets of interest, a National […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyShield AI Brings Its Autonomy Solution To Space Domain In Partnership With Sedaro
Shield AI is taking its Hivemind autonomy pilot software stack to a new domain, space, through a partnership the company announced on Wednesday with Sedaro Corp., whose platform simulates spacecraft […]
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Air ForceSenate Wants Study of Alternate Heavy and Super Heavy Launch Sites
Concern has arisen in the military space industry on what the U.S. can do if heavy pad launch sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Station, Fla., […]
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Air ForceUSAF Sustainment Of Intel Support Program For U-2 To Stretch Through Next October
While the Air Force has planned to retire the Lockheed Martin [LMT] U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance plane next year, a number of legislators have opposed that plan, and former Air […]