U.S. Space Command is tracking over 47,000 space objects and Army Gen. James Dickinson, head of Spacecom, said the command intends to hand over that responsibility to the Department of Commerce in
MoreThe Air Force Research Laboratory’s small satellite is carrying out extended operations after completing its mission to assess the survivability and performance of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies in the geosynchronous Earth orbit. The 12-unit
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SpaceX and Space Systems Command are preparing to launch later in October the U.S. Space Force-44 mission aboard the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket. USSF-44 will lift off from a launch complex at
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President Biden has nominated U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt to be the next deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear. Lloyd Austin, secretary of defense and a
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Data analysis shows that the collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft with its target asteroid moonlet Dimorphos changed the asteroid’s orbit. Dimorphos, which does not pose a threat to Earth,
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a three-phase program to find new technologies that can help increase the efficiency of point-of-load power converters used in space. The Space Power Conversion
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SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft carrying four astronauts took off Wednesday as part of the company’s fifth crew rotation mission to the International Space Station with NASA. The Crew-5 mission aboard a SpaceX
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The U.S. Space Force and the Australian defense department issued an initial operational capability declaration Friday for a ground-based military telescope being used to monitor deep-space objects. The Space Surveillance Telescope is
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The U.S. Space Force officially took the Space Development Agency under its wings, in line with a Congress-mandated realignment initiative in the National Defense Authorization Act. USSF said Saturday the agency responsible
MoreCol. Jennifer Krolikowski, chief information officer of Space Systems Command, said the U.S. government should factor in flexibility when it comes to choosing satellite security technologies in order to reduce technical debt
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