The U.S. Space Force has reached a contract with SpaceX to reuse a Falcon 9 boosters for upcoming Global Positioning System (GPS)-III launches, a first of its kind for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions. SpaceX is preparing to launch the fourth GPS III vehicle on Tuesday. This will ...
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Nations that damage satellites are ripe for legal challenge under the 1972 Liability Convention to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested on Sept. 22. In a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ Aerospace Nation discussion with Air Force Gen. John &# ...
The U.S. Space Force’s Wideband Global Satcom-11 (WGS-11) communications satellite will feature agile beams to avoid jamming, but a possible Mitigation and Anti-Jam Enhancement (MAJE) upgrade for WGS-11 ground stations would have to go through the requirements process. Boeing [BA] builds WGS, ...
QuantiTech LLC, a provider of engineering services to Defense Department customers and NASA, on Monday said it has acquired Dynamic Concepts, Inc. (DCI), a small company that provides engineering services to NASA mainly related to human space flight. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DCI’s ...
The California-based Rocket Lab is set to launch its Electron rocket for the company’s first mission for the U.S. Space Force in partnership with DoD’s Space Test Program and the Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Small Launch and Targets Division. The launch of the Space ...
Raytheon [RTX] was awarded a $13.1 million contract for an Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at connecting military jets to emerging commercial satellite internet constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), the Pentagon said on Sept. 10. Under the contract, Raytheon is developing a phased ...
