Two dozen U.S. allies joined the U.S. Space Command’s Global Sentinel collaboration exercise on space-based security and defense held at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, from Feb. 5 to 16. The event, which was initiated in 2014 with seven countries in attendance, kicked off in 2024 with 246 participants, including 177 representatives of U.S. […]
NASA has disclosed that it is leasing a parcel in the 240-acre Exploration Park at its Johnson Space Center in Houston to the Texas A&M University System, which will use the site for research and development focused on human spaceflight in the context of the commercial space economy. According to the agency, the lease agreement […]
Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, a subsidiary of technology company Ocutrx, has supplied high-precision circuit boards for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft’s communication. The Psyche mission, managed by Arizona State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, marks a significant achievement in deep space exploration as it is propelled by a solar electric propulsion system, helping it reach a […]
SpaceX launched the USSF-124 mission on Feb. 14, sending six missile-detecting satellites into orbit. The mission’s payload includes two prototype satellites, one developed by L3Harris Technologies and the other developed by Northrop Grumman, for the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program. The HBTSS program is designed to augment the existing overhead […]
Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, deputy chief of space operations, has revealed that the U.S. Space Force will serve as the lead operator of a fleet of ground object-tracking satellites intended to provide the leadership with persistent video-like surveillance capabilities. Speaking at an Air & Space Forces Association event on Tuesday, she explained that Space Force […]
Aalyria has completed a demonstration of its Spacetime network orchestration software platform, enabling two technologies—the Hybrid Space Architecture and the Combined Joint All-domain Command and Control Concept—for civilian and defense applications. Held in the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., and made possible through a collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit and other partners, […]
NASA has scheduled its next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission, focusing on an all-sky survey, for 2030. The UltraViolet EXplorer space telescope will study sources of ultraviolet light in the universe and identify explosions that follow bursts of gravitational waves caused by merging neutron stars. UVEX will also carry an ultraviolet spectrograph to study stellar explosions […]
Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, is working with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman to explore the possibility of the U.S. Space Force having its own National Guard unit. The 2024 defense authorization bill mandates the Department of Defense to carry out a […]
The Space Systems Command is eyeing ways to expand the Space Force’s GPS spacecraft constellation and is seeking industry ideas for launching demonstration satellites rapidly at low cost. According to a request for information posted on Sam .gov, the SSC wants industry inputs about GPS satellite systems on medium-Earth orbit, designed with lifespans of three […]
Greece has become the 35th country to commit to a set of principles guiding international cooperation on space exploration. Giorgos Gerapetritis, the Greek foreign affairs minister, signed the Artemis Accords on Friday during a strategic dialogue with the U.S. Department of State, NASA said Friday. According to Gerapetritis, the Accords will guide international collaboration leading […]
