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The Space System Command’s newly amplified Commercial Space Office is intending to take advantage of industry innovation and growth to equip warfighters with the best products and services from the sector, said

The Department of State has released the Strategic Framework for Space Diplomacy, an initiative aimed at expanding international cooperation and responsible behavior in space activities while ensuring U.S. global leadership in the

NASA and Boeing have completed a joint checkpoint review of the first crewed flight mission of the latter’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Ninety-five percent of the certification for the

NASA is sponsoring a new mission focused on the study of high-altitude ice clouds and their potential to improve climate forecasts. The Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer program, which was granted $37 million

Space Systems Command has delivered the second and final U.S.-developed space sensor payload scheduled to launch aboard Japan’s geostationary satellites. SSC said Wednesday the payloads were developed in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute

The U.S. Space Force is considering a contractor-owned, contractor-operated satellite communications management system and asking interested vendors for information on their capabilities to handle a satcom mission with government payloads. USSF’s Space

The International Space Station National Laboratory has begun seeking flight concepts that use the space-based facility to develop, mature and demonstrate advanced technologies for various applications. ISS National Lab said Thursday the

NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute has chosen five additional research teams that will get annual funding over five years to help advance human and robotic lunar exploration. The teams are

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s University Nanosatellite Program will team up with NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative to launch a new Mission Concept Program. The organizations chose eight universities to participate in

Space Systems Command has formally accepted the Control and Planning Segment, a single software baseline built to integrate the preexisting Enhanced Polar System and upcoming EPS-Recapitalization payloads. The Northrop Grumman-manufactured CAPS will