Spire Global, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deliver a preliminary design for a satellite that would carry an array of […]
DARPA
DARPA selects 11 teams to develop LEO smallsat ‘Translator’ optical comms terminals
DARPA has selected 11 teams for Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, known as Space-BACN, that aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts […]
BAE Systems to develop COFFEE filter technology
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs™ research and development organization a $6.5 million contract for the COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) […]
Blue Canyon Technologies + SEAKR Engineering deliver 1st flight unit + payloads for the DARPA Blackjack Program
Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC, and SEAKR Engineering, LLC, wholly owned subsidiaries of Raytheon Technologies, have announced that they have delivered one, Saturn-class, microsat bus and have also completed acceptance testing […]
SpaceLink selected by DARPA for the agency’s Proliferated Space Domain program
SpaceLink has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award — the company will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications […]
DARPA initiates LEO Satellite ‘Translator’ development program
DARPA has selected 11 teams for Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, known as Space-BACN, which aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable, optical communications terminal that adapts […]
Nexgen optical comms terminal to be developed by Mynaric for DARPA
Mynaric has been selected as a key development partner to create a benchtop model of a next-generation, optical communications terminal as part of Phase 1 of the Space-based adaptive communications […]
Millennium Space Systems demos advanced smallsat constellation tech
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, demonstrated several new technologies – expected and unexpected — on-orbit with their RED-EYE smallsat constellation. Built for DARPA, the satellite was nicknamed […]
Scramjet-powered HAWC achieves a successful 2nd flight test by Raytheon + Northrop Grumman
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), successfully completed their second flight test of the scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, […]
Significant milestone reached by Rocket Lab for the DARPA + SDA Mandrake-II mission
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has supported a significant milestone for DARPA and the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Mandrake-2 mission. In June, the two […]