COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Citing overwhelming success at the first-ever Air Force Pitch Day in March, the service announced a second opportunity for companies to get on contract in minutes – but this time, it’s for space technology. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said April 9 at the 35th ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Air Force Space Command expects to release this year a new strategy for the service’s future satellite communications architecture to address lawmakers’ longtime concerns about stove-piped capabilities and offer a more holistic, cost-effective solution, AFSPC leaders ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Should Congress approve the creation of a new Space Force under the Air Force, the service plans to begin standing up the new branch within 90 days of the legislation being signed, and to have a fully operational Space Force by 2024. Pentagon and Air Force officials are ...

A little over a month after returning from its annual resupply mission in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, the crew of the Coast Guard’s only active heavy polar icebreaker is preparing to leave its homeport in Seattle for a quick transit to California for its annual dry dock maintenance ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Rocket Lab USA has designed a new spacecraft dubbed “Photon” with the intent of launching small satellite payloads into low Earth orbit within four months from order to orbit, company officials announced April 8. “This is kind of the next level of democratization ...

Harris Corp. [HRS] has received $84 million to produce an experimental satellite dubbed Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) that will demonstrate new position, navigation and timing capabilities that could improve the resiliency of the GPS constellation, the company said April 8. The contract ...