The Space Systems Command has announced a $10 million contract award to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to check the software and cybersecurity of SSC’s Evolved Strategic SATCOM’s ground segment prototypes. SSC separately awarded in May a $30 million contract each to two combined vendor groups – Team Raytheon and Team Lockheed – […]
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Safari and the Defense Innovation Unit are gearing up for Victus Haze, a follow-on to the recently launched Victus Nox tactically responsive space mission. The DIU previously solicited proposals to prototype and demonstrate on-orbit tactically responsive space systems for Victus Haze, including the capability to deploy a satellite within 24 […]
Charity Weeden has assumed the role of associate administrator of NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy, which advises leadership on strategic planning and investments. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson swore Weeden in at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday. In a press release, he noted that Weeden is expected to continue OTPS’ delivery of strategic […]
The Department of the Air Force has confirmed the need to procure the 12th Boeing-built Wideband Global Satcom satellite, noting that no other existing commercial satellite can meet the communications requirements of the United States and its allies. The agency made the certification in a letter sent to congressional committees. Kay Sears, vice president and […]
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has put forward the Space Transformation and Reliability Act, a bill that would extend restrictions on Federal Aviation Administration human spaceflight safety regulations to September 2031. Dubbed a “learning period,” the freeze on rules to protect commercial space vehicle passengers was introduced in 2004 and is currently set to expire at […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has transferred to the U.S. Space Force a geostationary weather satellite to extend to 2030 the U.S. military’s Electro-optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary mission’s Indian Ocean weather monitoring. The satellite, rebranded as EWS-G2, is the second spacecraft under a NOAA-Space Force partnership agreement initiated in September 2020 to provide mission-critical […]
True Anomaly has secured from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command a $17.4 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research supply contract for space domain awareness applications leveraging analytics and scalable artificial intelligence. Under the contract, the Denver, Colorado-based space company will provide its integrated software operating system Mosaic to support a human-machine team-up […]
The Federal Communications Commission has started mandating that satellite operators work with the National Science Foundation to ensure that their space activities do not obstruct optical ground-based astronomy. Recent license updates issued to Iceye and Planet require them to report annually on their coordination with the NSF and on their efforts to minimize their potential […]
NASA’s Johnson Space Center is soliciting proposals to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, a spacecraft that will remove the International Space Station from its operational orbit once the laboratory reaches the end of its life in 2031. The U.S. space agency and its partners operating the ISS, namely the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space […]
Ten communication spacecraft equipped with Terran Orbital satellite buses were sent to low Earth orbit following the Tranche 0 Transport Layer launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Sept. 2, the company announced Monday. Tranche 0 is a component of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture that had its initial launch in […]
