Space

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is targeting next March to select a payload provider for the company’s effort to build two satellites for missile warning under Block O of the Next-Generation Overhead […]

Virgin Orbit is taking a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger to go public in a deal that values the company at $3.2 billion. The launcher announced Monday that parent company Vieco […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is to highlight the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) and Rocket Cargo Vanguard programs at the 36th Space Symposium next week in Colorado Springs–a forum […]

The U.S. Air Force on Aug. 13 awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a contract worth up to $960 million for Advanced Extremely High Frequency-Terminals (AEHF-T) and support. The work is to […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is seeking commercial companies to provide input on improving DoD’s awareness of intentional disruptions of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including GPS. “This solicitation […]

As the Pentagon undertakes a number of reviews on U.S. defense strategy, nuclear posture, and missile defense, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command […]

Satellite builders should have Space Sustainability Plans to allow the ready disposal of satellites when their services’ lives end, a top U.S. Space Command official said on Aug. 9. “We […]

The White House has named Chirag Parikh as executive secretary of the National Space Council. Parikh is the senior director of Azure Space at Microsoft [MSFT], and was previously the […]

The U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) ATLAS is on track to be operational by the spring of next year, as the service develops higher classification levels for the Unified Data Library […]

The use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) is critical to efforts to modernize U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), including the North Warning System (NWS), U.S. […]