Space

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Pentagon’s chief technology officer has begun a new effort to work more closely with the commercial space sector to better and more quickly leverage the rapid innovation […]

The U.S. Department of Defense is working to normalize space as an operational domain, just like land, sea, and air — and doing so requires collaboration with both allies and […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—This fall the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) expects to issue its next request for proposals (RFP) under a commercial remote sensing effort for Innovative Commercial Electro-Optical (EO) capabilities, […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Nearly two years after achieving initial operational capability (IOC), U.S. Space Command is on track to achieve full operational capability (FOC) later this year, Army Gen. James Dickinson, […]

The launch market likely faces a shortfall of capacity in the near-term, but also faces the risk of oversupply in the longer term, a new report from McKinsey finds. The launch market is […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A little over a year after winning a Space Development Agency (SDA) contract to provide satellites for a low-Earth orbit mesh communications network, Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Following the launch of two small satellites last fall, Lockheed Martin [LMT] in relatively short order demonstrated its ability to maneuver the satellites closer together for future on-orbit […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Lockheed Martin [LMT] earlier this year stood up a new innovation arm within its Space segment to quickly ramp up research, development and demonstration efforts and test new […]

Boeing [BA] on Thursday introduced its design for an anti-jam payload that has been integrated into a U.S. Space Force satellite communications (SATCOM) spacecraft scheduled to be launched in 2024. […]

Raytheon Technologies [RTX] this week said it has formed a strategic partnership with SpiderOak, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for space systems, to develop and field new zero-trust systems for […]