Viasat has won a U.S. Marine Corps contract for end-to-end satellite communications-as-a-managed-service support meant to provide the service with scalable and rapidly deployable beyond-line-of-sight connectivity. The I Marine Expeditionary Force already uses Viasat’s SaaMS offering to support tactical edge soldiers with command and control in support of various exercises and multidomain operations. I MEF carried […]
NASA will establish a new office that will receive the first Mars samples that a space vehicle will return to Earth in 2033 and distribute them to laboratories worldwide for study. The Mars Sample Receiving Project office will be part of the Johnson Space Center’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science division. Its other responsibilities will […]
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will work together to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine to be used for future Mars missions. The Demonstrator Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program is a non-reimbursable agreement where both NASA and DARPA would outline roles, responsibilities and processes for speeding up the rocket’s development. According […]
John Sherman, the Department of Defense’s chief information officer, has publicly released the Enterprise SATCOM Management and Control Implementation Plan, which is meant to guide agency efforts to develop satellite communications and modernize existing capabilities. The strategy lays out a three-phase implementation timeline from fiscal years 2023 to 2029. It begins with the enhancement of […]
Reston, Virginia-based technology consulting firm Raft has secured a prime contract to provide development services for the U.S. Space Force Defensive Cyber Operations for Space program. Raft will support the Space Force‘s Manticore and Kraken product lines. Work will be done in partnership with DCO-S to develop new features and patch software packages, data analytics, […]
The Space Development Agency is seeking industry comments on its plan to issue a solicitation for the development of four prototype sensor payloads capable of delivering space-based telemetry monitoring, electronic support and alternative navigation services. According to a draft solicitation posted on SAM.gov, the Sabre payloads would be integrated into the future National Defense Space […]
Slingshot Aerospace has partnered with HawkEye 360 to develop the U.S. Space Force threat-detection system. Data from HawkEye’s radio frequency mapping spacecraft in low-Earth orbit will be ingested in Slingshot’s cloud platform for analysis to identify, characterize and geolocate RF signals that disrupt GPS signals. The effort supports a $2 million contract Slingshot secured in […]
Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force chief of space operations, has released a memo discussing the service’s priorities, including strengthening partnerships and removing barriers to collaboration. He said the Space Force will not succeed in accomplishing its missions without robust joint, coalition, international, interagency, academic and commercial partnerships. Saltzman identified overclassification and incompatible […]
Lockheed Martin‘s Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle 06 has been launched. GPS III SV06 took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday morning. Officials from Lockheed at the U.S. Space Force were able to confirm signal acquisition nearly an hour and a half after launch. SV06 […]
NASA is set to begin the second phase of the Great Observatory Technology Maturation Program, which aims to build a 6.5-meter space telescope called Habitable Worlds Observatory. A science, technology and architecture review team will be established as part of phase two to mature the space telescope concept. At the 241st Meeting of the American […]
