KBR will provide mission and instrument systems engineering services at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a subcontractor to McCallie Associates. In March, NASA awarded McCallie a potential five-year, $387.1 million Systems Engineering Advanced Services II contract to support various NASA facilities. The SEAS II small business […]
The Space Development Agency has issued an other transaction authority solicitation for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer, part of the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative. For T2TL, SDA wants to procure 100 Alpha satellites equipped with either three or four optical communications terminals, a Ka-band, a Link 16 payload, command and control data processors […]
The Mitchell Institute has released a report detailing gaps in the U.S. Space Force’s counter-space deterrence. According to Charles Galbreath, the report’s author and senior resident fellow for space studies at the institute’s aerospace studies department, the service currently lacks the technology to defend against adversary attacks aimed at disabling satellites and command and control […]
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 […]
