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 […]
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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 […]
SSPI’s 2023 Mentor of the Year — she is Head of U.S. Space Systems at Airbus U.S. Space & Defense
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) recently announced that it will present its 2023 Mentor of the Year Award to Debra Facktor, Head of U.S. Space Systems at Airbus U.S. […]
Boeing leading hypersonic interceptor technologies for DARPA’s Glide Breaker evaluation
Boeing [NYSE: BA] will develop and test technologies for a hypersonic interceptor prototype for DARPA’s Glide Breaker program as part of a four-year effort. Boeing will perform computational fluid dynamics […]
GA-ASI set to start LongShot flight testing phase
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is poised to start the flight-testing phase on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) LongShot program. Begun in 2020, General Atomics was competitively […]
RTX Trilogy: Contract to develop platform agnostic BLOS SATCOM solution / New large form factor CubeSat / DARPA award for AI to human values
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a $36 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a platform-agnostic, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS), SATCOM […]