Space
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SpaceSpace Development Agency Launches First Two Satellite Missions
The Space Development Agency (SDA) launched its first two satellite missions on June 30–two Astro Orbital-built Mandrake II cube satellites with an SA Photonics payload, two General Atomics Laser Interconnect Networking Communications System (LINCS) […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force: Automated Flight Safety System to Allow More Rapid Launches
A SpaceX Automated Flight Safety System (AFSS) for the company’s Falcon 9 rockets permitted three launches within 11 days of one another in May and early June, U.S. Space Force […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyJAIC’s Joint Information Warfare Team Helps Field Malware Detection, Looks to AI for Space Applications
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Joint Information Warfare (JIW) team developed and helped field AI malware detection and threat detection tools and is now looking to develop AI […]
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SpaceSpaceX to Launch Falcon 9 to Transport First SDA Experimental Satellites on June 25
On June 25, SpaceX is to launch a Falcon 9 rocket that will carry the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) first satellite missions–Mandrake II, the Laser Interconnect Networking Communications System (LINCS), […]
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SpaceSpaceX Launches GPS III Satellite on Reused Booster in a US Military Milestone
SpaceX’s latest GPS III launch was its fourth time launching this type of satellite for the U.S. military, but last Thursday’s mission marked a brand-new milestone: It was the first […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Looks to Qualify GPS OCX Software Baseline This Fall
U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. expects the qualification of a new software baseline for the future command and control (C2) system […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Tests Pegasus Rocket for Responsive Space Missions
The U. S. Space Force on June 13 launched a Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) technology demonstration satellite from a Northrop Grumman [NOC] Pegasus XL rocket. The latter, carried on a […]
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SpaceInitial Operational Capability for New GPS Command and Control Expected in Third Quarter of FY 2023
As U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) prepares for the launch of the fifth Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellite on June 17 from Cape Canaveral Space […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Unfunded Priorities List Includes $431 Million for Programs to Provide “Warfighting Punch”
More than half of the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) $832 million unfunded priorities list (UPL)–$431.1 million–is devoted to programs “to develop a warfighting punch.” Included in the $431.1 million are […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyAFRL To Issue Solicitation Soon on New, “Rocket Cargo” Vanguard Program
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to issue a solicitation soon on a new Department of the Air Force Vanguard program–Rocket Cargo, a science and technology (S&T) effort to […]