The Government Accountability Office has asked the Space Force to provide more realistic estimates of the cost and timeline for its Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared constellation. Next-Gen OPIR is being designed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin and is billed as the nation’s next premier missile warning satellite constellation for detecting missile threats all over the […]
Carillon Technologies has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop next-generation satellite-to-satellite communication system prototypes based on commercial Holographic Optical Beam Steering technology. HOBS technology is being developed by commercial startup Lumotive, which will collaborate with Carillon Technologies under the DARPA deal. The technology is used for automotive light detection […]
NASA has awarded Rebel Space Technologies a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract for a proposal that uses the company’s proprietary Rebel Cognitive Communications and Control software. The Long Beach, California-headquartered space company’s proposal is titled “SpaceWeaver: A Collaborative Smart Network for Space Communications.” Rebel-C3 was designed to deliver autonomous, network management services. Using […]
Eleven Army and four Navy units responsible for communications satellites are slated to be absorbed by the Space Force. The transfer is slated for Oct. 1 barring a continuing resolution that could delay the process, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond said at the Air, Space & Cyber conference. According to Raymond, a 2021 […]
NASA will establish two new directorates to put the agency in the best possible position in the next two decades. According to an announcement by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, the move would create the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate and the Space Operations Mission Directorate. Both units will focus on lunar and Mars explorations. According […]
Leidos’ wholly-owned subsidiary Dynetics has been selected by NASA to enable crewed trips to the Moon’s surface as part of the Artemis program’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Appendix N. Dynetics is one of the five companies chosen for a firm-fixed-price, milestone-based contract and will receive an initial award of $40.8 million. The funding […]
The U.S. Space Force has launched multiple efforts to modernize the military’s aging Satellite Control Network in preparation for the projected increase in space activities. There are currently seven SCN sites located in the U.S. and around the world, consisting of 15 large dish antennas that control more than 190 military and government satellites in […]
The U.S. Space Command wants more data and sensors to speed up its ability to detect and manage space objects in real time. Speaking at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Col. Scott Brodeur, director of the USSPACEOM’s National Space Defense Center, said that observational data is needed within seconds but data […]
ABL Space Systems announced it has been awarded a contract to serve as the space launch provider for NASA’s Cryogenic Demonstration Mission. Scheduled for launch in 2023, the mission is aimed at demonstrating in-space transfer of cryogenic liquid hydrogen, the best-performing propellant for lunar and deep space exploration, ABL said Thursday. Dan Piemont, president of […]
Mitre has developed a software package designed to allow the U.S. Space Force to track satellites and space debris in near-real time. The Space Systems Command is currently performing tests on the software package that Mitre delivered in July following two years of operational prototyping, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Bob Carden, a senior systems analyst […]
