Bechtel has announced the completion of the jacking and setting process for the Mobile Launcher 2 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a critical step in designing, building and commissioning the new launcher. The Bechtel-NASA project team performed the maneuver by assembling and aligning 43 primary steel assemblies to form the mobile launcher […]
Viasat will install a terminal on a Loft Orbital spacecraft to demonstrate its Real-Time Space Relay service to NASA. The demonstration mission, slated for launch in fall 2025, will be performed under a $53 million contract awarded through NASA’s Communications Services Project, which aims to assess commercial satellite communications services and technologies that could replace […]
The National Reconnaissance Office’s commercial space office is planning to launch a new contracting vehicle to procure various types of imagery from private remote-sensing companies. Currently, the NRO’s approach to acquiring imagery focuses on electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar, radio-frequency and hyperspectral data. Speaking at the GEOINT Symposium, Pete Muend, head of the NRO commercial space […]
Chirag Parikh, executive secretary of the National Space Council, said that the organization might soon sit down and talk about its role in protecting the United States’ interests in space. At the 2024 GEOINT Symposium held in Florida on Wednesday, Parikh said that the NSC has been working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the […]
Rocket Lab USA has selected six companies to support the integration and procurement of payloads for the 18 satellites being developed for the Space Development Agency. In January, the SDA confirmed awarding a $515 million prime contract to Rocket Lab to build the satellites for the beta segment of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s Tranche […]
The U.S. Space Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center has begun using the Raytheon-built advanced ground system for space-based missile warning. The Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing Application Framework is designed to integrate existing and future mission-focused applications to process, exploit and disseminate satellite data. FORGE MDPAF can process overhead persistent […]
The Space Systems Command has announced the completion of factory confidence tests for its Enhanced Polar System-Recapitalization program payloads. According to U.S. Space Force Capt. Dale Hartley, EPS-R’s deputy brand chief, the test’s goal was to verify the payloads’ functionality and its hardware and software configurations, ensuring its readiness for transportation to the launch site, […]
NASA has announced that applications are now open for its 2024 solicitation of proposals from academic institutions, nonprofits and businesses on technologies that will support the agency’s Artemis moon missions and future Mars exploration. Almost $1.5 million in NASA funding has already been awarded to 24 projects under the solicitation program dubbed Dual-Use Technology Development […]
L3Harris Technologies, one of the contractors of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program, said it is planning a late 2025 flight testing of its newly developed communications terminal integrating military-owned and commercial constellations on a military aircraft. AFRL initiated the program in 2018 to harness commercial satellite internet service […]
The Space Systems Command is seeking to award a contract to develop and produce four space vehicles under the Evolved Strategic Communications Space Development and Production initiative. According to the solicitation notice, the SSC needs a vendor capable and experienced in delivering an XDR payload with uplink and downlink antennas and radiofrequency electronics to down-convert […]
