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Astroscale + HEO advance space monitoring capabilities for allied nations

Astroscale Holdings Inc. (Astroscale) has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with High Earth Orbit Robotics Pty Ltd (HEO)—this agreement deepens an existing partnership to develop and deliver critical […]

General Atomics + Kepler Communications demo air-to-space optical comms capability

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications US, Inc. have successfully demo’d bi-directional, air-to-space, optical communications between the GA-EMS Optical Communication Terminal (OCT) mounted on an aircraft and a […]

L3Harris upgrades USSF telescopes for SDA mission

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has successfully upgraded the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance telescopes at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, enabling the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to declare operational […]

Missile Defense Agency satellites track first hypersonic launch

The Defense Department’s advanced missile tracking satellites logged their first views of a hypersonic flight test this week, according to the Missile Defense Agency. MDA didn’t disclose the date of […]

Redwire selected by Rocket Lab to provide antennas for the SDA’s TLT2 satellite constellation

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been contracted by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: RKLB) to provide antennas and RF hardware for the recently announced Space Development Agency (SDA) Transport Layer […]

SSC awards Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) contracts

The United States Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC)’s Space Safari Program Office, in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and SpaceWERX, is awarding contracts to two separate […]

US Department of Defense launches L3Harris missile tracking satellites that exceed current ballistic missile detection capabilities

Five missile tracking satellites L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) designed and built successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking […]

L3Harris clears CDR + PRR for SDA’s Tranche 1 missile tracking satellites

L3Harris completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) for 16 missile tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer […]