The U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)’s Launch Enterprise (PDF) successfully propelled an experimental research payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) aboard […]
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L3Harris Technologies Receives USSF + USSC Contract To Continue Tracking Objects In Space
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded $89 million for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects […]
General Atomics-EMS Contracts Rocket Lab To Launch The Argos-4
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch the GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) […]
L3Harris Technologies’ $137 Million for 4 MDUs for GPS IIIF Satellites
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received contracts totaling $137 million for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for […]
Slingshot Aerospace’s Co-Founder, Melanie Stricklan, Now CEO with Laser-Focus on Space Initiatives
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a leader in situational awareness technology, announced today that the company’s Co-founder Melanie Stricklan has been named Chief Executive Officer effective immediately as the company gets laser-focused […]
USSF’s SMC WGS MAJE Program’s Trio Of Virtual Tests Successful
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Mitigation and Anti-Jam Enhancement (MAJE) program successfully conducted three virtual system tests during the last quarter of 2020. The tests […]
USSF Awards LinQuest With IDIQ Contract For Analysis Support Work
Recently, LinQuest was awarded a $500 million, 5-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide analysis support to the U.S. Space Force (USSF). This is the first enterprise contract […]
USSF Awards Analytical Space A $26.4M Contract For Deployment Of Space Data Transport Network
Analytical Space, Inc. (ASI) has been awarded a $26.4 million, three-year contract by the Department of the Air Force’s commercial investment arm (AF Ventures), with joint funding from the Space […]
A Pumpkin Will Integrate AASC’s Thruster With No Moving Parts, Gases or Liquids for U.S. Space Force
Last year AASC was selected by ASTRA LLC to deliver a flight-ready version of their Metal Plasma Thruster (MPT) for ASTRA’s upcoming EWS Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) Mission, […]
L3Harris Demos Antenna Tech For USSF MILSATCOM
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully completed a technology demonstration, under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s […]