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Kratos and the USAF successfully complete the XQ-58A Valkyrie Skyborg flight series

July 19, 2022

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) recently completed a successful series of flights with two production XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft for the Skyborg Program. The program team includes the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Fighters and Advanced Aircraft Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), USAF 40th Flight Test Squadron (FLTS), USAF 46th Test Squadron, and […]

Filed Under: AFRL, Agencies, Military, Programs, Test, U.S.A.F., UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has added Optix platform capabilities into the firm’s Optix platform

July 19, 2022

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has integrated the Optix platform (screenshot below) into its System for Tasking And Real-Time Exploitation (STARE) system. Optix delivers cloud-based, big data processing and analytics to STARE, providing operators with a common operating picture by integrating and displaying wide area surveillance information gathered by GA-ASI Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) […]

Filed Under: AI / ML, Business Moves, Cloud, Development, ISR, Military, RPA / UAV, Software

Scramjet-powered HAWC achieves a successful 2nd flight test by Raytheon + Northrop Grumman

July 18, 2022

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, or HAWC, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force. The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, team completed a second […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Business Moves, DARPA, Military, Partnerships, Scramjet, Tactical, Test Firing, U.S.A.F.

Blue Canyon’s multiple spacecraft and components on Virgin Orbit launch

July 18, 2022

Slingshot 1 is the first-ever Blue Canyon 12U CubeSat bus carrying 19 payloads to low Earth orbit. Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced the launch of Slingshot 1, MISR-B, and a government customer satellite, aboard Virgin Orbit on July […]

Filed Under: Batteries, Buses, Cubesats, GPS, Guidance, LEO, Navigation, Radiation, Radios, Satellite Control, Solar Arrays, U.S. Navy

UPDATE 2: Space Development Agency contracts for 28 satellite builds for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer — L3Harris statement — Northrop Grumman statement

July 18, 2022

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded two prototype agreements with a total potential value over $1.3 billion for the establishment of the Tranche 1 (T1) Tracking Layer, providing the initial missile warning/missile tracking warfighting capability of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) — these satellites will start to launch in April of 2025. The […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Business Moves, Constellation, Contracts, Ka-Band, Military, Missile Warning, News, Satellite Build, Satellite Design, Satellite Tracking, SDA, Warfighters Tagged With: Featured

Airbus’ SKYNET 6A satellite passes Critical Design Review

July 14, 2022

We are building SKYNET 6A with its unique military communications payload entirely in the UK and we currently have more than 45 small to medium sized enterprises and subcontractors helping to make sure we remain on target for launch in 2025.” Airbus has achieved a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, CDR, Government, Manufacturing, Milestone, Military, MILSATCOM, Payloads, Satellites, Test

U.S. Space Systems Command awards Lockheed Martin Space Systems a million$$$ GPS contract

July 14, 2022

Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company the contract to deliver operations and sustainment support services for the Global Positioning System IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF. The support contract provides specialized sustainment services to maintain the GPS IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF space vehicles and signal in space and meet evolving requirements for a resilient system for the joint warfighters and […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Constellation, Contracts, GPS, L5, M-Code, Military, Navigation, PNT, Satellite Sustainment Services, Satellites, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Systems Command Tagged With: Featured

UPDATE 1: Rocket Lab launches the 1st of two Responsive Space Missions for NRO

July 13, 2022

Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has successfully launched the first of two responsive space missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Following lift-off of NROL-162 (“Wise One Looks Ahead”) from Pad A at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at 06:30, UTC, July 13, 2022, Electron successfully delivered the NRO’s […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Electron, Launch, Launch Contract, Launch Facilities, Launch Management, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, Military, New Zealand, NRO, USA Tagged With: Featured

Significant milestone reached by Rocket Lab for the DARPA + SDA Mandrake-II mission

July 13, 2022

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 Mandrake-2 spacecraft, Able and Baker, successfully demonstrated closing and maintaining an optical communications link for the full test duration of 40 minutes at a range […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Blackjack, Business Moves, DARPA, Milestone, Military, Mission, Optical inter-satellite links (OISL), SDA, SmallSats Tagged With: Featured

Space Systems Command’s next Industry Day to highlight Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

July 12, 2022

Space Systems Command (SSC) officials and other agencies involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA) will meet with traditional and non-traditional space industry professionals July 28th in Colorado Springs to exchange ideas and methods to execute SDA missions at the next SSC Industry Day. To register, visit the SSC Front Door webpage. The unclassified event will […]

Filed Under: Events, https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/space-systems-command-front-door, Military, SDA, U.S. Space Command Tagged With: Featured

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