U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) this week release a Request for Information to industry seeking feedback on their capabilities in space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) as it pursues two se...
PARIS — French and European government and military leaders speaking at the Cysat event in Paris on Wednesday said that Europe’s changing geopolitical environment is leading to increased cyb...
Lockheed Martin on Monday said it has transitioned the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to the Missile Defense Agency, setting up plans for a decision on an Operational Baseline
U.S. Space Systems Command last Friday released the draft request for proposals (RFP) for the planned medium-Earth orbit (MEO) space vehicles for future missile warning and tracking defense. Curr...
https://www.defensedaily.com/space-systems-command-releases-draft-rfp-for-epoch-2-satellites/space/
The Defense Department this week said it has awarded $193.8 million in new projects aimed at quickly fielding new technologies to warfighters, the second tranche of fiscal year 2024 awards
Godspeed Capital and Special Aerospace Services (SAS) have partnered to create a platform company under the SAS brand that is focused on new space, hypersonics, and missile defense technology and...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Tuesday added scant detail about two new space-related development initiatives that have been approved to begin execution before Congress has authorized and a...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Space Development Agency (SDA) in late May plans to begin gathering test data from four L3Harris Technologies satellites the agency launched in February as part of
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. Space Systems Command will shortly release request for proposals (RFPs) for two new programs, Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) and Protected TACTICA...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Military space domain operators are working more closely with the commercial satellite industry to not only exchange vital operational information, but also to forge ahe...
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Apr. 11 that SSC’s Space Safari program office, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, and the Space Force’s SpaceWERX innovation a...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Maxar Intelligence this year plans to expand its constellation of electro-optical (EO) imaging satellites to satisfy data needs for government and commercial buyers, acc...
https://www.defensedaily.com/maxar-intelligence-plans-increase-in-satellite-production/space/
The U.S. Space Force has picked the second and third sites for for the Northrop Grumman Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), as the program proceeds apace, a service
https://www.defensedaily.com/u-s-space-force-has-chosen-second-and-third-darc-sites/space/
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is planning a test this summer of space-based Link 16 tactical messages to Norwegian military forces. Last November, SDA said that it
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The U.S. Space Force on Wednesday released its first strategy for acquiring commercial space capabilities, which include four criteria to guide its decision-making in th...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— International military collaboration is critical to ensure the safety and security of space, a panel of military space force and space command leaders from six differen...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week approved the kick-off of two quick-start space-related programs by the Air Force without having to wait for congressional author...
https://www.defensedaily.com/kendall-initiates-two-quick-start-space-related-programs/space/
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. Space Command top priority is to be combat ready by 2027 and command and control (C2) tops the list of capabilities that must be improved by then,
Rocket Lab this week said it has been awarded a $14.49 million task order by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to launch an Electron mission, called Space Test Program-30
While SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has attached an annual price tag of $400 million on what it costs to provide Starlink communications service to Ukraine, SpaceX is unlikely
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—In early May, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) expects to launch the first phase of its planned proliferated space architecture that aims to significantly expand...
https://www.defensedaily.com/nro-set-to-launch-first-phase-of-proliferated-space-architecture/space/
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. allies Germany, France, and New Zealand have been invited to join U.S. Space Command’s Operation Olympic Defender (OOD), which already includes Australia, Canada,...
https://www.defensedaily.com/u-s-space-command-invites-more-allies-to-join-ongoing-operation/space/
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Two small satellites developed by Lockheed Martin to demonstrate the use of space for joint all domain command and control (JADC2) were successfully launched into orbit...
The U.S. government should expand its spending on commercial remote sensing and related data analytics to help this sector of the space industrial base grow, says a new report by
The Pentagon is nearing the final touches on a new strategy focused on international space cooperation, with the department’s lead policy official citing increased work with allies and partners...
The Defense Department on Tuesday released its first Commercial Space Integration Strategy that outlines priorities for pursuing commercial solutions and describes the national security space mis...
Helicity Space, a small startup developing fusion space propulsion and power technology, on Tuesday said it has received an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures that will be used to advance
The U.S. Space Force last week asked feedback on missile warning, missile defense, and space-based weather support for its Space Operations Command (SpOC) as the service develops an acquisition s...
https://www.defensedaily.com/space-force-sees-missile-warning-other-support-for-ops-command/space/
Last week, the new heads of U.S. Space Force’s three field commands–Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Operations Command (SpOC), and Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM)–met in C...
https://www.defensedaily.com/u-s-space-force-field-command-heads-meet-on-future-plans/space/
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) last Thursday released a synopsis for a new contract effort, LUNO B, which will be a multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/...
https://www.defensedaily.com/nga-planning-second-contract-under-luno-effort/intelligence-community/
The final Delta IV Heavy rocket may launch on March 29 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command said on March 28 that the rocket was
https://www.defensedaily.com/final-delta-iv-heavy-launch-for-nrol-70-upcoming/space/
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the
Will U.S. Space Force or the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), or a combination of the two, have responsibility for rapid, within minutes commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) ...
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that it did not include more than $42 million in its fiscal 2025 budget request for the missile warning portion of the Space Development
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) last week said it is working with three companies to provide in-space logistics services between orbits to further Defense Department efforts for low-cost respon...
A House-Senate appropriations conference agreement reduces the U.S. Space Force budget request of nearly $19.1 billion to about $18.7 billion–a decrease of $529 million. The conferees decreased...
https://www.defensedaily.com/appropriators-reduce-u-s-space-force-rd-funding-by-530-million/space/
By the end of next year, Boeing‘s small satellite plant in El Segundo, Calif., may reach an annual production capacity of 60 satellites. In 2018, Boeing bought Millennium Space
A mix of space and airborne assets is likely required for a future ground moving target indication (GMTI) replacement for the Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2025 budget includes nearly $130 million for an Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) system to enable military forces to switch rapidly from one satellite band...
Pleased with successes so far in acquiring and exploiting commercially-developed space-based remote sensing imagery and data, the executive branch is working toward establishing a program of reco...
Demand has grown significantly over the past few years across the Defense Department and federal civil sector for analytic services tied to commercial remote sensing, which is leading the Nationa...
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is increasingly using fixed price contracts, even as the agency uses a range of buy options, NRO principal deputy director Troy Meink said on March
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said that it has ironed out wrinkles in Link 16 delivery from space to military forces over existing radios. Last November, SDA
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is requesting nearly $248 million in fiscal 2025 research and development funding for a new program, Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Global (PTS-G). PTS-G ...
FARNBOROUGH, U.K. — In a keynote at Space-Comm Expo, the commander of UK Space Command said he is “convinced” that space has a PR problem, as people do not understand the importance and
The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “We made a tradeoff
Stratolaunch, LLC last Saturday said it successfully completed the first powered flight of its Talon-A test vehicle, reaching high supersonic speeds, a key milestone in the development of the pri...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a number of small satellites for the company’s Transporter-10 project launched on March 4 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. Such birds included Arcfield...
https://www.defensedaily.com/eo-ir-cubesat-tech-demo-on-spacex-transporter-10-mission/space/
The U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command on March 1 awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite, the Pentagon sa...
https://www.defensedaily.com/boeing-receives-us-space-force-contract-for-wgs-12-satellite/space/
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio has laid out some details of possible upgrades to the HH-60W Jolly Green II personnel recovery/combat search...
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-lays-out-details-of-possible-hh-60w-upgrades/air-force/