Space

Slingshot Aerospace on Monday received a potential $13.3 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to develop the user interface for a new space traffic coordination system […]

The U.S. Space Force said this week that it has informed Congress that September next year will mark initial operational capability (IOC) of the L3Harris [LHX] Advancing Tracking and Launch […]

Military forces’ demand for Proliferated low Earth orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what U.S. Space Force expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders–the majority […]

The U.S. Space Force has launched six Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellites, and the company has been storing four GPS IIIs in Littleton, Colo. The 31-satellite GPS constellation “is […]

Anduril Industries on Thursday said that U.S. Space Force has awarded the company a potential $99.7 million contract to provide its Lattice operating system as a mesh networking capability for […]

A small company developing space-based vehicles that can store cargo in orbit for delivery to Earth on demand has raised $44 million in a Series A funding round that will […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Tuesday that its LM 400 satellite is to launch in the first six months of next year on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. The refrigerator-sized […]

The commercial sector’s employment of firm, fixed price contracts–notably the approach of SpaceX founder and Trump insider Elon Musk–looks to upset the apple cart of DoD acquisition come January, and […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is moving to a zero trust/defense in depth cyber protection schemata for the agency’s satellites, an NRO official said on Tuesday. “Whereas in the past […]

RESTON, Va. — The cybersecurity of space systems in terms of on orbit assets, ground systems, and data links is a critical issue for U.S. national security, and the federal government […]