Space
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Air ForceFive Teams to Focus on Space Domain Awareness for Space Rapid Capabilities Office
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., on Wednesday identified five teams of small businesses and “leading prime integrators to advance integrated satellites” under […]
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SpaceArray Labs Teams with Raytheon and Umbra Space on 3D Imaging
Silicon Valley’s Array Labs, Inc.–a four-year-old startup that aims to field a constellation of low Earth orbit, three dimensional, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) cube satellites with 20 centimeter x 20 […]
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SpaceSDA Outlines Tranche 3 Transport Layer In Draft Solicitation
The Space Development Agency (SDA) last Thursday issued a draft solicitation for the third tranche of its transport layer of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, which will require 40 spacecraft split […]
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Force MultipliersTim Solms – Slingshot Aerospace
In this monthly column, Defense Daily highlights individuals from across the government, industry and academia whose efforts contribute daily to national defense, from the program managers to the human resource […]
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Air ForceNRO’s Troy Meink, Who Accelerated Agency Use of Fixed Price, is SECAF Pick
Troy Meink, the principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is President-elect Trump’s pick to become Air Force secretary. Meink, a former U.S. Air Force KC-135 navigator and […]
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SpaceBlue Origin’s New Glenn Debuts, Company to Re-test Booster in Coming Months
Blue Origin‘s New Glenn rocket had its debut launch early Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. Named after the late John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to […]
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Intelligence CommunityNGA Selects 13 Companies For Luno B Program For GEOINT Data
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 13 companies to provide geospatial intelligence under the Luno B contract, the agency said Wednesday. Luno B is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract […]
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SpaceBlackSky Wins 1-Year Extension for EOCL Contract with the NRO
BlackSky Technology won a one-year extension with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract for its satellite imagery, the company said on Tuesday, adding the […]
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Space
Rocket Lab USA Completes Preliminary Design Review for SDA Communications Satellites
Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] said that it has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL)-Beta program. “This […]
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SpaceYork Space Systems Announces Satellite Linkage with SpaceX Bird
A question mark for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company’s satellites would link with other companies’ birds, but […]
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