Space
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Air ForceAir Force Pursuing Alternative Industry Sources For Struggling GPS III Navigation Payload
The Air Force is pursuing alternative industry sources to provide the navigation payload for its next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite constellation in case prime contractor Lockheed Martin […]
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BudgetGAO Urges FAA Update Methodology For Third Party Launch Indemnification
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should review and update as appropriate its probable loss methodology for calculating commercial launch providers’ insurance requirements as it relates to third-party indemnification, the Government […]
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Air ForceAir Force Delays GPS III Launch, Navigation Payload Delivery After Further Challenges
The Air Force has delayed the launch for its first Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite and further delayed navigation payload delivery due to continued payload development challenges. Air Force […]
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PentagonU.S. Protected Satellites Lack Throughput For Success In Conventional Operations, Expert Says
The United States’ protected military communications satellites do not have the throughput to sustain the data requirements necessary for success in conventional operations, according to an expert on Asian strategic […]
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Air ForceAir Force Working To Create CHIRP Data Archive, Retrieval System
The Air Force is developing an archival and retrieval system so that declassified data collected by the service’s Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) may be provided to contractors and researchers […]
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SpaceLPTA Contracts Hurting Industry And DoD, Astrium Services Government’s Chief Says
The Defense Department’s trend of procuring commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) bandwidth through lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) contract evaluations stifles industry’s innovation to provide best value and supplies warfighters with […]
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SpaceULA Never Let RD AMROSS Exclusivity Agreement Lapse, CEO Gass Says
United Launch Alliance (ULA) never let its exclusivity agreement with RD-180 engine provider RD AMROSS expire, according to company CEO Michael Gass, refuting a key allegation in Orbital Sciences’ [ORB] […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin Completes Assembly on Fifth MUOS Satellite, Begins Testing
Lockheed Martin [LMT] assembled its fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite faster than the previous four builds, getting the satellite into early testing 20 percent ahead of schedule, the company […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin Predicts GPS III Navigation Payload Delivery By Spring
Lockheed Martin [LMT] plans to receive the first Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite’s navigation payload this spring from payload developer Exelis [XLS] after originally forecasting delivery for early […]
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SpaceBall Aerospace-Led Team Pursuing High-Performance, Non-Toxic ‘Green’ Spacecraft Propellant
A team led by NASA and Ball Aerospace [BLL] seeks to demonstrate and test a high-performance, non-toxic “green” spacecraft propellant on orbit with a goal of launching it into space […]