Blue Origin concluded its test campaign and is ready to launch its New Glenn rocket, the company’s first orbital launch vehicle, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, January […]
Military
Space Systems Command (SSC) awards $211 million Space C2 DevSecOps contract
U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $211 million contract to Systems Planning & Analysis, Inc. to provide Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) Platform and Space […]
Space Launch Delta 45 breaks records, remains the world’s busiest spaceport in 2024
Space Launch Delta 45 continued to “set the pace for space” as the world’s busiest spaceport in 2024. The SLD 45 team, composed of military and civilian Guardians and Airmen […]
QinetiQ US awarded OTA to support UNO prototypes
QinetiQ US has been awarded an Other Transaction Agreement supporting Product Manager Tactical Cyber and Network Operations (PdM TCNO). The Agreement was awarded through Consortium Management Group (CMG)/Consortium for Command, […]
Analyst: Starlink at 5m users
According to analysts at Quilty Space the SpaceX/Starlink ‘broadband-by-satellite’ system has now hit 5 million subscribers/users. “From its debut announcement of 60,000 subscribers in 2021 to hitting 5 million this […]
NRO launches sixth mission of Proliferated Architecture with NROL-149 and the last launch of 2024
Statement from the National Reconnaissance Office The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-149 mission aboard a […]
Forrester’s Digest: EU spends €10bn on Starlink rival
The IRIS2 project for hundreds of satellites was confirmed December 16th with the signing of contracts worth €10.6 billion with the SpaceRISE consortium. The consortium, led by satellite operators SES, […]
Quadsat + NATO NCIA verify Quadsat system to measure WGS compliance
Quadsat has worked with NATO NCIA to perform a measurement campaign to verify U.S. Space Force’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) compliance. Following on from Quadsat’s inclusion in the 2023 NATO DIANA program, […]
BlueHalo selected by NGA for assessments of commercially acquired GEOINT data
BlueHalo has been selected as one of 10 vendors to provide unclassified commercial GEOINT-derived computer vision and analytic service capabilities for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite […]
USSF celebrates its 5th anniversary, sets sights on the future
At the recent Space Force Association Spacepower Conference in Orlando, from December 10 to December 12, U.S. Space Force senior leaders outlined a comprehensive vision for the organization’s future, marking […]