The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has awarded Electro Optic Systems’ U.S. subsidiary two contracts to enhance domain awareness capabilities. EOS Defense Systems USA is tasked with adding commercial satellite laser ranging data to the Open Architecture Data Repository and delivering passive electro-optical observations. James Bennett, executive vice president of EOS […]
Red Hat Holdings subsidiary Skypersonic has delivered to NASA a platform that will be used to control a rover and drone system for the agency’s Simulated Mars Missions. The hardware and software were proven in August when NASA personnel at the Johnson Space Center controlled Skypersonic drones and a rover at Mt. Etna, a stratovolcano […]
Jay Raymond, former U.S. Space Force chief and a 2022 Wash100 winner, has highlighted the need to strengthen the partnership with commercial space companies to maximize the use of their innovative technologies. Speaking at an event hosted by the Stimson Center, Raymond, who retired earlier in November, noted that while the Space Force has taken […]
The U.S. Space Force has delivered the last of two military communications payloads that will launch on Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission. The Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payload is an extremely high-frequency extended data payload built by Northrop Grumman designed to provide secure communications services to warfighters in the Arctic region. The first EPS-R […]
NASA will shut down the Geostationary Carbon Observatory mission and look into newer options for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, according to an announcement made Monday. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science, said the space agency is seeking cheaper and more efficient ways to collect climate data. GeoCarb has incurred approximately $600 million in life cycle […]
NASA has selected Icon to develop a system capable of constructing critical infrastructure, including landing pads, blast shields and roads, on the moon and Mars in support of the space agency’s Artemis program. Icon was awarded a nearly $60 million contract under the third phase of NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program, which funds the […]
The GOES-U environmental satellite has completed thermal vacuum testing, a process that puts the spacecraft under extreme temperatures to ensure it can survive the harsh conditions during launch and in-orbit operations. GOES-U is the fourth and last satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series carrying advanced technology to provide timely and more accurate weather […]
Rocket Lab USA has secured a task order under NASA’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract to provide launch services for the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats program. Four cube satellites built to monitor tropical storms will deploy into low Earth orbit from two of the […]
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, said its proposed satellite design for a medium-Earth orbit missile-warning constellation for the U.S. Space Force had passed a critical review. Passing the critical design review allows Millennium Space Systems to move forward with the program. According to company CEO Jason Kim, the next phase will be space and […]
The U.S. Space Force has established a unit within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command that will oversee operations in the Asia-Pacific region. U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific is based in Hawaii and will be initially staffed by 21 service members who would support INDOPACOM’s space-based requirements, including satellite navigation, communications and mission warning. The unit will be […]
