Ball Aerospace has completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) next-generation operational environmental satellite system. The company also finalized environmental testing […]
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s contract with U.S. Space Force for missile track custody system
Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a prime contract to develop a prototype Missile Track Custody system for the U.S. Space Force. MTC is the service’s first Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) […]
USSF’ s Space Delta 2 leverages SDA in support of Artemis I mission
On November 16, 2022, NASA’s Artemis I successfully launched from Space Launch Complex 39B. This landmark event marked the first successful launch of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System […]
Space Innovation Center planned for Pittsburgh
National and regional space industry stakeholders recently gathered for the launch of the Keystone Space Innovation Center and AFWERX Pittsburgh — this is a pilot program for future innovation opportunities […]
U.S. CENTCOM activates U.S. Space Forces-Central
U.S. Central Command has activated U.S. Space Forces-Central at the component’s permanent headquarters located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The activation of USSPACEFORCENT is another step for the U.S. […]
Millennium Space Systems completes the CDR for USSF’s MTC payload
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody, or MTC, program mission payload. The MTC payload […]
U.S. Space Force activates + assigns forces to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) officially activated and assigned U.S. Space Forces – IndoPacific to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in a ceremony on November 22 conducted at Joint Base Hickam– […]
AFRL breaks ground on new FORTRESS space lab
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, held a ground-breaking ceremony, November 16, 2022, beginning construction on the Facility for Radiation Tolerance Research […]
Boeing’s new autonomous anti-jam capabilities for U.S. Space Force SATCOM program
Boeing engineers recently demonstrated a new, autonomous technology that can successfully prevent jamming attempts on U.S. Department of Defense satellite communications (SATCOM). The test was conducted on the U.S. Space […]
USSF’s next payload arrives safely in Florida for an early 2023 launch
The Space Systems Command (SSC) Innovation and Prototyping Delta’s Long Duration Propulsive EELV (Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA), or LDPE-3A payload, was recently transported from Northrop Grumman’s […]