California-based startup Vector Atomic and Honeywell Aerospace have developed an atomic sensor that takes navigation measurements without using GPS. Funded by the Defense Innovation Unit, the sensor was delivered in August and is planned to be deployed into orbit, SpaceNews reported. DIU awarded Vector Atomic a $10 million contract in 2020 to produce an atomic […]
The National Reconnaissance Office is expanding its constellation of satellites providing imaging and signals intelligence amid increasing threats from adversaries. In an interview with the Mitchell Institute, Space Force Maj. Gen. Christopher Povak, the NRO’s deputy director, said the new satellites will come in various sizes and will be deployed across diverse orbits to improve […]
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office has chosen six companies to join the 2023 iteration of Hyperspace Challenge, a business accelerator directed by Central New Mexico Community College-owned nonprofit CNM Ingenuity and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Hyperspace Challenge’s 2023 program cohort comprises Dawn Aerospace, High Earth Orbit Robotics, Lexset .ai, Magdrive’s Harwell […]
The U.S. Space Force has reached a milestone in consolidating space missions across the military services by assuming official control of the Joint Tactical Ground Station missile warning system from the U.S. Army. JTAGS are ground-based systems located in Italy, Qatar, South Korea and Japan that warn soldiers about ballistic missile launches. The systems are […]
LMI will deliver a modeling and simulation toolkit for space warfighting missions under a five-year, $98 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract from the U.S. Air Force. LMI will provide its Rapid Analysis and Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency to support the Space Security and Defense Program, which focuses on creating a resilient national […]
Space radar technology provider Umbra announced that it has secured a spot on NASA’s five-year Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the IDIQ, NASA will acquire Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar data to support the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Sciences Division. Umbra SAR satellites generate high-resolution images regardless of weather conditions and time, […]
NASA has awarded Outpost Technologies a Phase 2 Ignite Small Business Innovative Research to advance the development of a spacecraft designed to transport cargo and payloads from the International Space Station back to Earth. The spacecraft, called Cargo Ferry, is expected to offer a quick and reliable transportation service for scientists to receive, process and […]
McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen Hamilton announced that it will support space-based missile warning, surveillance and environmental monitoring activities for the U.S. Space Force as part of a seven-year, $630 million contract awarded by the service branch. Work will include engineering space sensing systems and integrating the $14.4 billion Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, Booz […]
Seven companies have won spots on a potential 66-month, $476 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity NASA contract to deliver Earth observation data and related services. The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program is meant to support Earth science research and application efforts, NASA said Monday. It is intended to be a cost-effective way to complement observations collected by the […]
Lockheed Martin has secured a four-year, $5.4 million U.S. Space Systems Command contract to build a platform that can relay critical data to warfighters. Under the Overhead Persistent Infrared Data Exploitation Technology Transition I Typing and Characterization Algorithm contract, Lockheed will work with SSC’s Tools Applications Processing Laboratory to improve missile warning data relay capabilities, […]
