The Government Accountability Office said the U.S. Space Force needs to upgrade the Satellite Control Network as the Department of Defense and other agencies send more satellites to space. According to a GAO report released on Monday, SCN-supported satellite launches have tripled since 2012, and the 19-antenna infrastructure might not have the capacity to support […]
Makenzie Lystrup has been named director of Goddard Space Center, a Maryland-based NASA institution responsible for space science research and development. Administrator Bill Nelson swore her in on Thursday at the agency’s Washington headquarters. Lystrup takes over from Chief Program Management Officer David Mitchell, who had served as Goddard Space Center’s director in an acting […]
The U.S. Space Force is set to begin its Victus Nox mission this summer aimed at developing a satellite for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance within eight months and launching it within 24 hours after receiving a deployment order. Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems won a contract in September to build a satellite and ground system […]
The U.S. Space Force plans to expand its relationship with U.S. combatant commands by setting up components akin to those at the U.S. Central Command and the Indo-Pacific Command. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Security Forum, Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear at the Space […]
NASA has selected Navy Capt. Gregory Reid Wiseman as the commander of the second Artemis moon mission planned for launch no earlier than November 2024. Wiseman previously worked on the International Space Station in 2014 as a flight engineer for Expedition 41. Before flying to the ISS, he led NEEMO21, a 16-day NASA mission that […]
Derek Tournear, the director of the Space Development Agency, recently spoke about how the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is designed to survive attacks across several domains. The PWSA is a planned seven-layer satellite constellation meant to provide warfighters with data transport and missile-tracking capabilities. An initial set of 10 spacecraft was sent into orbit aboard […]
SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm housed within the Air Force Research Laboratory, has awarded Miami-headquartered battery and microelectronics company City Labs a $1.7 million Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase 2 award for imaging sensor delivery. City Labs will create an autonomous, self-powered imaging sensor with onboard processing capabilities and wireless communications for satellites […]
The first satellite launch for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture took place at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deployed 10 of the 28 Tranche 0 satellites to low-Earth orbit, two of which were manufactured by SpaceX. The satellites will undergo testing and component checkouts for several […]
NASA has drafted a plan to explore Mars through a series of science and infrastructure-building missions to be undertaken by robots. Eric Ianson, Mars Exploration Program director, said the Exploring Mars Together strategy would begin after all launches take place for Mars Sample Return, an ongoing effort to collect particles from the planet’s surface and […]
The U.S. Space Force plans to enhance its secure military narrowband communication capability by acquiring two satellites that operate between 300 megahertz and 3 gigahertz. The service issued a solicitation for the two Mobile User Objective System satellites on March 24. Under the first phase of the effort, the Space Force is seeking information on […]
