The U.S. Space Force has named OneWeb Technologies as a prime contractor for the 10-year, $900 million Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit Commercial Satellite Communications contract. The p-LEO contract is part of a Department of Defense acquisition plan that requires the Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office to procure COMSATCOM bandwidth and services to meet military needs, […]
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will each develop and deliver 36 beta satellites for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer. The Space Development Agency awarded Lockheed an $816 million contract and Northrop a $733 million contract to build the satellites, which are expected to launch beginning September 2026. PWSA’s T2TL segment will […]
Col. Donald Brooks, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence commandant, said at the recently-concluded Functional Area 40 Training Forum at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado that training and integration requirements for denied, degraded and disrupted space operating environments were identified during the event. The forum, which took place from Aug. 15 […]
U.S. intelligence agencies have warned space companies to look out for attacks from foreign adversaries. According to a joint bulletin published Friday, foreign intelligence entities know that the commercial space industry is essential for the U.S. economy and national security and consider innovations in the sector as threats and opportunities they can take advantage of. […]
A group whose members belong to five Italian cyber research teams won the recent Hack-A-Sat competition held from Aug. 11 to 14 at Def Con 31 in Las Vegas. The group, called mHACKeroni, beat four other teams in hacking Moonlighter, a 3U cubesat launched to the International Space Station on June 5 aboard a SpaceX […]
The U.S. Space Force has decommissioned a space surveillance satellite under its Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program and plans to launch two satellites for the program’s constellation in 2024 and 2027. The satellite, called GSSAP Space Vehicle 2, has been in orbit since 2014 and now transferred from Space Operations Command to Space Systems Command. […]
A small satellite Lockheed Martin Space is building for a NASA lunar exploration mission is now in its final assembly and testing phase following the integration of the Lunar Thermal Mapper. As part of the Lunar Trailblazer satellite, the LTM will gather moon temperature data at different times to identify the lunar surface’s thermal properties […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions and Aalyria Technologies contracts worth $1.6 million in total to conduct 90-day studies that would inform the SDA on existing or planned commercial technologies for low-Earth orbit backhaul services. According to the SDA, the studies involve connecting LEO satellite systems to the Proliferated Warfighter Space […]
Rocket Lab has signed a contract with NASA for the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment mission. Under the agreement, Rocket Lab will use its Electron rocket to deliver to low Earth orbit two PREFIRE satellites from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in 2024. The agreement will involve two launches to be carried […]
RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, said its space sensor has moved to the development and testing phase following the completion of NASA’s critical design review. The Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer is being built to operate in geostationary orbit where it would serve as NASA’s hyperspectral imager, RTX said. GLIMR will gather data, […]
