Satellogic, an Argentinian Earth observation company with offices across the globe, plans to establish a U.S. subsidiary to capitalize on business opportunities with national security agencies. Matthew Tirman, head of Satellogic North America, told SpaceNews that while the company has a growing commercial business, defense and intelligence is the biggest market right now. According to […]
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center has nearly completed the prototype phase of its Enterprise Ground Services project, an official said. SMC’s Cross Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise is developing the EGS to have a common architecture for satellite command and control. Joshua Sullivan, program manager for EGS, said he expects SMC […]
Commercial space company Momentus has announced a service agreement with Xona Space Systems, a startup developing positioning, navigation and timing satellites in low-Earth orbit. Momentus said the agreement will give Xona access to in-space infrastructure services in support of its 2020 Alpha mission, Inside GNSS reported Monday. Momentus offers a spacecraft called Vigoride that was […]
The U.S. Space Force has awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX contracts for four National Security Space Launch Phase 2 missions. ULA received $224.29 million in firm-fixed-price task orders to provide basic launch services and mission integration for USSF-112 and USSF-87, the Department of Defense said. Work will be done in Centennial, Colorado; and Cape […]
NASA will utilize a reusable suborbital rocket system from Blue Origin to run lunar gravity tests on technologies bound for the Moon. According to NASA, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will be upgraded to simulate the Moon’s gravity, with the new lunar gravity testing capability expected to be available in late 2022. The rocket is […]
Lockheed Martin has completed a flight test of its Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System munition at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The ER GMLRS munition was fired from the Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher and traveled a distance of nearly 50 mi. The flight test allowed officials to measure […]
Slingshot Aerospace, an intelligence technology company, has named military industry veteran Chuck Beames to its board of advisers. Beames is the executive chairman of York Space Systems and the founder and chairman of the SmallSat Alliance, an industry group that represents more than 50 space companies, Via Satellite said. According to Slingshot, Beames has more […]
Mercury Systems, an aerospace and defense company, said it will provide solid-state data recorders for NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation science mission. Led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the EMIT mission is aimed at mapping the surface mineralogy of arid dust source regions and understanding how mineral dust warms or cools the Earth’s […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a new set of Starlink satellites on March 4. The booster landed successfully afterward. The recent launch brings the total number of Starlink satellites currently in orbit to 1,205. However, over 60 of the satellites have deorbited. The SpaceX rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 29A, […]
The Space Force announced that it has launched an experimental payload for an undisclosed research project by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The AFRL payload was launched on a sounding rocket that took off from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket then followed a preplanned suborbital trajectory, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Space […]
