Satellite radar sensing provider ICEYE on Thursday said it has contracted with a Ukrainian charity to use one of its satellites to provide radar imagery in support of the country’s military in its war against Russia. The contract is with the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, which helps ...

Ursa Space Systems and Spire Global [SPIR], two commercial companies that provide remote sensing services to government and other customers, have formalized a partnership to combine their capabilities for detecting illicit maritime activity for the U.S. government. Ursa Space, which is based in New ...

The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM with a test re-entry vehicle on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., “to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and ...

X-Bow Systems, the first new entrant in decades into the U.S. solid rocket motor business, is expecting to ramp up on one or more programs in the coming six to 12 months with an aim to garner a small but meaningful chunk of market share in five years, says the co-founder and chief of the […] ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Wednesday selected 11 teams to advance development of low-power, low-weight, low-cost and interoperable technologies to create new datalinks to allow for seamless communications between different satellite constellations in low-earth orbit ...

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Texas-based Firefly Aerospace are teaming to build a first stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new rocket for commerical, civil, and national security purposes. Scot Lehr, vice president of launch and missile defense systems, said in an Aug. 8 statement that the ...