NASA has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $765.5 million contract to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with imagers for the spacecraft being developed as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite program. L3Harris will build and deliver two GeoXO Imagers but it could provide more of the product if contract options are exercised. Work […]
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency are preparing to announce the four astronauts bound for lunar orbit under the Artemis II mission. The event will take place on April 3 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and will be broadcast on NASA’s media channels such as the official app and website. Comprising three representatives […]
NASA has awarded Sidus Space a follow-on contract for satellite capabilities integration. Sidus Space will work with a team from the Stennis Space Center to integrate autonomous operational on-orbit capabilities developed under NASA’s Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications project onto the company’s LizzieSat satellite. Work under the contract will support NASA Stennis’ ASTRA Payload […]
Space Systems Command and NASA will launch eight experimental payloads to the International Space Station on March 14 for the Department of Defense’s space test program. The mission, called STP-Houston 9, will lift off on board a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STP-H9 […]
The White House’s fiscal year 2024 budget request released Thursday contains allocations for key NASA missions such as Artemis. Bill Nelson, the space agency’s administrator, said the budget will support exploration and technology development requirements. Under the FY2024 budget, NASA would receive $8.1 billion to advance its objective of establishing a long-term presence on the […]
Space Launch Delta 45 has allocated one launchpad each for four commercial space companies, namely ABL Space Systems, Stoke Space, Phantom Space and Vaya Space. The U.S. Space Force unit said giving the companies the excess facility supports efforts to strengthen the United States launch industrial base. The four launch companies develop launch vehicles that […]
China is making continuous progress in achieving its goal to surpass the space capabilities of the United States by 2045, according to a new U.S. intelligence community report. The Annual Threat Assessment, a congressionally mandated report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, pointed to China’s policies encouraging private firms to invest […]
The secretary of the Department of the Air Force said the Department of Defense’s budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes provisions for a classified air and space sensors project. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air Warfare Symposium, Air Force Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Frank Kendall shared that the funds will […]
Boeing has demonstrated the capability of its Protected Tactical Enterprise Service to protect end-to-end satellite communications from jamming. PTES was built under a $383.4 million contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to Boeing in 2018. During the demonstration, PTES was tested over an on-orbit commercial satellite and enabled integration of anti-jam software and hardware with […]
Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab USA, told SpaceNews in an interview that his company supported the two-track approach to the third phase of the National Security Space Launch program and said the resulting acquisition strategy is “what we were certainly promoting to occur.” Unlike Phase 2, solicitations for NSSL Phase 3 are expected to […]
