Space
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SpaceNGA Director Suggests Commercial Imagery Meeting COCOM Timelines
Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), suggested last week that commercial imagery was meeting the timelines of combatant commands (COCOMs). “Our day is really […]
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SpaceHypersonic Test Launch Successful From Sea-Based Platform, Establishing New Range
Under a contract with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate a commercial capability for launching from sea, The Spaceport Company on Tuesday said it successfully launched a sub-scale hypersonic […]
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SpaceAre ‘Integrated Space Fires’ Kinetic or Not?
One of U.S. Space Command’s goals on its Integrated Priorities List is “integrated space fires,” but thus far the command has not directly said whether that means direct, kinetic fires […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyStoke Space Nabs Small DIU Contract To Prototype Cargo Delivery To And From Space
Stoke Space on Wednesday said it received a $4.5 million contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a commercial point-to-point cargo delivery solution to, through, and from space […]
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SpaceMore Than 100 NRO Satellites Launched/Planned Between June Last Year and End of This Year
By the end of the year, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will have put more than 100 satellites into orbit since June 2023, NRO Director Chris Scolese said on Aug. […]
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SSC Awards Northrop Grumman More Than $200 Million for Second DARC Radar Site
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., said on Friday that it has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a more than $200 million cost-plus […]
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SpaceSpaceWERX Selects Nine Small Companies For STRATFI Funding
The U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm last week selected nine companies to receive contracts to help move their respective technologies beyond the prototype stage to deliver capabilities to the service. […]
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SpaceTrustPoint Wins 2 SpaceWERX Contracts in AltPNT Challenge
SpaceWERXhas awarded TrustPoint two Direct-to-Phase II contracts to mature the company’s GPS-independent technologies as part of the SpaceWERX AltPNT Challenge. TrustPoint announced the two awards on Wednesday, worth $3.8 million total. The AltPNT […]
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SpaceNATO Taps Planet Labs to Track Global Threats with SkySat Imagery
Planet Labs will provide high-resolution satellite data to support the NATO Communications and Information Agency‘s (NCIA) Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) program under a new contract the company said Monday. The data, […]
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SpaceSDA Shifts, Goes with Two Contractors, Instead of One, for T2TL-Gamma
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has changed its plan to go with one contractor for the Gamma satellites of the Tranche 2-Transport Layer (T2TL). On Friday, SDA said that York Space […]