Space

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the recently established U.S. Space Force are continuing to define how the two agencies – one sitting under the intelligence community and one headquartered […]

As Defense Department officials and lawmakers have loudly protested the FCC’s recent decision to approve a new commercial L-Band network for 5G, the top military official at the National Reconnaissance […]

The first budget crafted and developed by personnel assigned to the U.S. Space Force will be included in the fiscal year 2022 budget request, the service’s number-two officer said April […]

The top officials of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force are looking at “different mitigation steps” to counter potential effects on GPS receivers that could emerge from the FCC’s […]

The Defense Department’s space acquisition leaders are convening to establish ways to keep its defense industrial base in business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the Space Acquisition Council are […]

The recently formed Space Acquisition Council wants to look at ways to apply digital engineering techniques that have been more prominently used in aviation programs to satellite manufacturing, the Air […]

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and Pentagon officials are stepping off the sidelines to blast a new draft order that would reallocate a GPS-adjacent portion of the radio […]

  The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has awarded Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space a $35 million contract to launch three dedicated missions using its LauncherOne rocket to deliver 44 small satellites to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The […]

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said April 9 it opened a new spacecraft development, integration and test factory outside of Denver. The new facility includes over 33,000 square feet, with […]

The third GPS III satellite launch will take place in late June at the earliest, two months later than scheduled, to minimize the potential of COVID-19 exposure to personnel, the […]