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Rocket Lab partners with U.S.A.F. | AFRL for Neutron launch for rocket cargo missions

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch their medium-lift, reusable rocket—Neutron—for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a Rocket Cargo mission that supports point-to-point cargo transportation and […]

Oracle-M Hot Fire Test is SSC and AFRL milestone in cislunar Space Situational Awareness and national security

The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have reached a critical milestone in advancing cislunar Space Situational Awareness (SSA) with […]

Rocket Lab’s 2nd reentry class spacecraft for Varda operating on-orbit supporting payloads for AFRL + NASA

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced its second Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, Inc. is successfully operating on orbit — the mission launched on January 14, from […]

Varda’s W-2 spacecraft launched to orbit with SpaceX with Koonibba Test Range up next

Varda Space Industries has announced the successful launch of the company’s second orbital processing spacecraft and re-entry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX from […]

U.S. Space Systems Command selects L3Harris to design resilient GPS satellite concepts

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to design concepts for Phase 0 of the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program.  The […]

Northrop Grumman completes hybrid SATCOM demo, connecting to commercial space internet

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed the firm’s first over-the-air demonstration of a hybrid SATCOM solution, providing seamless connection with Viasat and a commercial Proliferated Low Earth orbit (PLEO) […]

Viasat awarded U.S.A.F. DEUCSI contract for phased array antenna tech development

Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded a $33.6 million contract including options from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program […]