Brig. Gen. Jason Cothern, deputy commander of Space Systems Command, said the $1 billion in new funding for hypersonic missile tracking in the U.S. Space Force’s budget request for fiscal year 2023
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The U.S Space Command has signed a memorandum of agreement with its U.K. counterpart to increase their collaborative military efforts in space. USSPACECOM said Wednesday it will work with the U.K. Space
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NASA has selected five universities to design research experiments that will take place on the International Space Station. Each awardee will receive approximately $100,000 to formulate these experiments under the Established Program
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Hughes Network Systems has entered an agreement with OneWeb Technologies to distribute its low earth orbit data to the U.S. Department of Defense. The work will build on Hughes’ debut of the first managed
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Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) has developed a radar technology designed to help the U.S. Space Force track satellites and other objects in space. JHU APL said Thursday that
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight industry and university research teams to support a new program for designing new technologies to build large structures on orbit. The Novel Orbital
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NASA is preparing for the final test of the spacecraft, launch vehicle and ground systems that will drive the Artemis I lunar flyby mission. The Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System and Exploration
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The Defense Innovation Unit has announced the prototype testing of three commercially built robotic arms aimed at enabling the on-orbit servicing of U.S. satellites. Technologies developed under the Modularity for Space Systems
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Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said “system of systems integration” will be his primary responsibility and that integration of platforms across the Department of the Air Force’s space
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GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, has written an article for Forbes that lays out imperatives for tightening cybersecurity measures in satellite activity. In
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