The U.K. Space Command will set up a Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations Cell under a U.S. Space Command initiative for enhanced situational awareness capabilities. The planned JCO-UK cell will allow British authorities to work with their U.S. counterparts on efficiently using commercially furnished space domain awareness data. Specifically, JCO-UK will incorporate eight-hour operations […]
Four teams will advance to the third and final level of the Watts on the Moon Challenge Phase 2, allowing them to demonstrate their power supply and storage technologies in a simulated lunar environment. The finalists were selected among the seven teams that received $200,000 each to develop parts of their proposed solutions. Advancing to […]
DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, a part of SES Space and Defense, has secured a five-year, $134 million blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Space Force to deliver X-band satellite capacity, teleport and network services in collaboration with a team of operator and integrator companies. The award was made through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense […]
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks has secured a five-year, $70 million NASA contract for data center development and operations. The university will continue developing and operating the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System. Deliverables include systems engineering, operations and maintenance, data and information management […]
Indian Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu said on June 21 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., that signing the Artemis Accords is a landmark step for India and reiterates the country’s commitment to cooperative space exploration. The Artemis Accords, which provides a set of principles to guide 21st-century civil space exploration, were launched in […]
RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, has selected Mynaric to supply optical communications terminals for the seven missile warning and tracking satellites being developed for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer under a $250 million contract. Mynaric is expected to deliver 21 Condor Mk3 terminals in 2024. Three optical communications terminals are required […]
The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are planning a wargame where participants across the industry, academia and government will brainstorm about the technologies and techniques to address future conflict in space. According to a solicitation issued by the Space Security Defense Program, the wargame aims to ensure that space operations will be […]
An amendment to the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill would enable the U.S. Space Force to charge companies for using military launch facilities. Introduced by Rep. Salud Carbajal, the provision would compel firms to pay the service branch for overhead infrastructure and other indirect costs that a […]
The House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Military Personnel seeks to streamline the personnel management structure of the U.S. Space Force by establishing a single system covering full and part-time guardians. Such part-timers would take the place of a reserve component. The structure is detailed in the HASC military personnel subcommittee’s version of the 2024 […]
L3Harris Technologies has selected Numerica to deliver space-based sensor data fusion and support for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Numerica will optimize its distributed sensor fusion and target tracking technology to fit with the L3Harris T1TL constellation. The Numerica solution was developed to support various air and missile defense applications and […]
