NASA has released its inaugural Space Security Best Practices Guide, a document designed to enhance space mission cybersecurity for the private and public sectors. The guide covers cybersecurity principles for space vehicles and ground-segment pieces of equipment. The principles within the guide build on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Special Publication 800-53, a set of security and […]
The U.S. Space Force has concluded the first iteration of Exercise Red Skies, which used simulation technology to provide Space Operations Command personnel with orbital warfare training. Brig. Gen. Todd Moore, deputy commander of host organization Space Training and Readiness Command, said the exercise enabled guardians to execute operational tactics in a “dynamic, threat-representative orbital […]
Rocket Lab has received a new contract to build 18 satellites, reportedly from the Space Development Agency. In a recent regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the space launch provider and satellite maker said it was awarded a $515 million contract, a development that boosts its Photon satellite business that started in 2019, […]
The White House has released the framework supplementing the bill it submitted to Congress in November that assigns roles to the Departments of Commerce and Transportation in regulating novel space activities. Vice President Kamala Harris disclosed the proposed legislation’s supplement, called the United States Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision Framework, during the National Space […]
PBG FedSync has received a contract to support the various functions of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The Glenn-Langley Administrative Support Services contract is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal to provide administrative support to various efforts at the two aforementioned NASA facilities. The contract will […]
The fiscal year 2024 defense budget, once signed by President Joe Biden, would let the U.S. Space Force collect up to $5 million annually in indirect fees from commercial companies using its launch ranges. The legislation marks a shift from the 1984 Commercial Space Launch Act, which bars the U.S. government from charging companies for […]
Ball Aerospace has announced its selection by NASA to conduct a Phase A study for the Extreme ultraviolet Coronal Mass Ejection and Coronal Connectivity Observatory mission, an initiative to enhance scientific understanding of the sun’s outer atmosphere. Through ECCCO, NASA aims to uncover insights into how activity in the sun’s middle corona connects to solar wind and […]
The U.S. Space Force is investing to improve immersive space flight mission training to meet future demands of space operations. On Monday, the military branch awarded Air Force Techstars 2020 firm MSBAI and Princeton University a $1.25 million Phase 2 contract from SpaceWERX to develop the GURU autonomous system, enabling users to create training scenarios, […]
NASA has sent a 15-second ultra-high-definition streaming video from Earth to a Deep Space Optical Communications payload some 19 million miles away using lasers. The demonstration, part of the two-year DSOC experimentation, involved NASA operators sending the video to the flight laser transceiver, a DSOC instrument installed on the Psyche spacecraft capable of sending and receiving near-infrared signals. Operators […]
The three new sensors in geosynchronous Earth orbit that the U.S. Space Force launched in January are now operational and have collected potential threats “changing the intelligence estimate on certain foreign capabilities,” Kelly Hammett, Space Rapid Capabilities Office director, said. Hammett did not provide additional details, but told reporters at the inaugural Spacepower conference in […]
