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) […]
U.S. Space Force
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 […]
Two Teledyne Paradise Datacom Modems Gain WGS Certification
Teledyne Paradise Datacom has announced that two of their flagship modems have officially been certified for use in the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system, the high capacity SATCOM system partnership […]
Diversified Technologies’ New C-Band Radar For Vandenberg AFB
Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) has built a new transmitter for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Western Range AN/TPQ-18 radar facility at Vandenberg AFB, California. This upgraded, 3 MW, C-band radar […]