Space

The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM with a test re-entry vehicle on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]

X-Bow Systems, the first new entrant in decades into the U.S. solid rocket motor business, is expecting to ramp up on one or more programs in the coming six to […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Wednesday selected 11 teams to advance development of low-power, low-weight, low-cost and interoperable technologies to create new datalinks to allow for seamless […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Texas-based Firefly Aerospace are teaming to build a first stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new rocket for commerical, civil, and national security purposes. […]

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) plans to conduct tests using SpaceX Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites to aid operations. A partially redacted Aug. 5 business notice said […]

U.S. Space Force conducted testing of the L3Harris Technologies’ [LHX] Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) in June and July, as Space Force moves to operationalize ATLAS to replace the […]

The U.S. Space Force on Aug. 4 launched the sixth Lockheed Martin [LMT] Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO)-6 satellite, the final planned SBIRS missile warning satellite, […]

Collaboration by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Department of the Air Force on a Space-Based Radar study continues to fulfill one of Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s operational […]

Xona Space Systems, a small company developing low earth orbit (LEO) satellites for global positioning and navigation services as an alternative to the GPS constellation, has closed a new funding […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that it plans to launch three company developed satellites next year to help demonstrate Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO). The effort is part of the company’s Space-Augmented […]