CACI International has completed its acquisition of SA Photonics, a Los Gatos, California-based developer of photonics technologies. The purchase, which was initially announced in early Nov. 2021, expands CACI’s existing photonics portfolio and broadens
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Clare Grason, chief of the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communication Office, said the military branch is in discussions with multiple satcom service providers over the possibility of creating a federated network
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program that seeks to develop a reconfigurable optical communications terminal that would enable different small satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit to
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Peraton announced on Thursday that two Space Development Agency (SDA) prototype satellites were successfully placed in orbit due to the company’s work to secure rideshare space on the SpaceX Transporter-2 mission and
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ASCEND announced on Monday its 2021 Guiding Coalition. The Coalition is an advisory board of technical, scientific, engineering and business leaders selected to help maximize ASCEND's mission. The board will include Mike
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The Department of Defense (DOD) is on track to replace the aging polar-orbiting Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) with two new military satellite systems designed to monitor weather data. The recent developments
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Lockheed Martin announced on Monday that it has entered into a block buy agreement with ABL Space Systems. The agreement will require ABL to provide Lockheed with routine rocket launches of RS1
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NASA plans to enter into two to four Space Act Agreements with companies to support the initial design of their proposed commercial space stations in low Earth orbit as part of the
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Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the critical design review (CDR) of the flight system and advanced spectrometer instrument that will be integrated onto a 350-kilogram satellite for MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of the
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Stephen Forbes, deputy program manager for the Blackjack initiative at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been appointed to lead the program. Forbes will replace Paul Thomas, who is slated
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