Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by DARPA to further develop the concept of building a moon-based, railroad network as part of the broader 10-year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) […]
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Umbra unveils bistatic SAR data from the firm’s tandem pair of smallsats
Umbra has announced the forthcoming release of imagery from the firm’s tandem pair of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) smallsats. Umbra is set to provide customers with bistatic SAR data later […]
RTX completes DARPA Blackjack milestones with four Blue Canyon Technologies smallsats
RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) smallsat manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), has announced that the satellites supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack program have completed […]
DARPA moves forward on X-65 tech demo
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control — this award is […]
DARPA selects MBRYONICS optical terminal for DARPA’s Space-BACN Program
MBRYONICS, a satellite communications and photonics equipment provider, has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the optical terminal, including the space telescope, the […]
Mbryonics selected as the optical terminal provider for DARPA’s Space-BACN Program
The DARPA Space-BACN program aims to deliver seamless communication between government and commercial LEO satellite constellations, such as Telesat Lightspeed, Starlink and Kuiper, using Mbryonics’ StarCom optical terminal. MBRYONICS has […]
Sierra Space secures DARPA contract for lunar oxygen extraction framework
Sierra Space has secured a significant contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under this contract, Sierra Space will embark on a groundbreaking research and development initiative, the […]
Firefly Aerospace to support DARPA LunA-10 with framework for on-orbit spacecraft hubs
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has been selected to develop an analytical framework for aggregated on-orbit spacecraft hubs in support of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study. Based on the capabilities […]
Telesat Government Solutions awarded DARPA Space-BACN Phase 2 contract
Telesat Government Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telesat, has been awarded the Phase 2 contract of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. The goal […]
DARPA seeking innovative concepts for space superiority
DARPA is seeking innovative concepts from small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors in the technical domain of space superiority as the second topic issued under the agency’s Bringing Classified Innovation […]