Space

As the defense community awaits the release of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 budget in the next month or so, the Department of the Air Force may stand to gain a […]

The U.S. Space Force is moving to rely more on the commercial sector and its international partners for capabilities it once owned and operated, giving it more capacity, redundancy and […]

The Clarity-1 very-low Earth orbit (VLEO) imaging satellite by Denver’s Albedo Space and the first microsatellite owned and operated by Norway’s Kongsberg are among the 74 payloads that reached orbit […]

Ursa Major, which has been cutting its teeth developing solid rocket motors and liquid rocket engines, has received a contract from an undisclosed customer to develop chemical propulsion for tactical […]

U.S. Space Force wants cost estimates on modifying the design of Boeing‘s [BA] future Protected Tactical Enterprise System (PTES) ground segment that will initially support Boeing’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) […]

Defense Department plans to reduce its civilian workforce will make it difficult on the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition offices and lead to program delays unless some requirements are dropped, the […]

Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] on Tuesday evening said it intends to acquire German optical communications company Mynaric in a $75 million deal that would bring a key supplier in house, […]

Responding to a potential need from U.S. Space Command for new unclassified space situational awareness (SSA) capability, the acting chief of space acquisition policy last week directed the U.S. Space […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is examining launch sites in Australia, Spain, Scotland, and French Guyana, as DoD searches for launch companies that can offer alternatives to SpaceX. The latter’s […]

Originally to start launch last September, the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 satellites–the first to link to military forces in the field–are to begin orbiting late […]