Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said SDA will deploy satellites in low-Earth orbit as part of the tracking layer to help detect hypersonic
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NASA is planning to send four satellite missions aimed at studying weather conditions, mineral dust, oceans and surface water on Earth in 2022, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The launch dates of Time-Resolved Observations
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The U.S. Army has marked the second year of Project Convergence and demonstrated 110 new technologies meant to support joint all-domain command and control as part of the experimentation effort, Defense One
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Two CubeSat small satellites operated by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) linked with ground stations as part of a communications experiment. MDA said Monday its CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment aims to demonstrate
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking to deploy a constellation of small satellites for weather forecast activities in the future. NOAA considers using small polar-orbiting satellites for the agency's
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NASA plans to establish a new Earth system observatory that could help inform efforts on climate change, disaster mitigation and forest fire response as well as support modernization of real-time agricultural processes.
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Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Michael Gilday has shared the U.S. Navy's plan of transferring the operations of its 13 satellites to the Space Force and assured that the process will be
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The Space Development Agency (SDA) will launch a solicitation for a new set of 150 satellites in August 2021, for a network of communications satellites planned to begin launching three years from
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Steve Butow, director of the space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), said the U.S. military is now looking to migrate to a new space architecture that could allow the government
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Ball Aerospace has been selected to support a NASA small satellite technology demonstration, Solar Cruiser. Ball will perform several mission-critical functions, including the integration and test of the satellite bus with the
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