Peraton has secured a NASA follow-on contract for suborbital flight operations support for the Wallops Flight Facility. Under the Sounding Rocket Operations IV contract, Peraton will design, fabricate, integrate and perform flight qualification tests for suborbital payloads. The company will also provide vehicles, hardware and support needed for launch services. Work on the contract will […]
NASA has awarded Axiom Space a $5 million task order to work on a spacesuit for use in low Earth orbit. The space agency also awarded Collins Aerospace a task order worth the same amount for the same purpose, except the spacesuit Collins will develop will be used on the surface of the moon. The […]
Five teams of security researchers will participate in the final round of the fourth Hack-A-Sat competition, during which they will launch cyberattacks targeting a newly deployed 3U cubesat, dubbed Moonlighter, which serves as a hacking sandbox in space. A SpaceX rocket launched the satellite on June 5 to the International Space Station. The ISS deployed […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with space companies and military organizations to identify and integrate capabilities that can be used for the Hybrid Space Architecture. The program is linked to the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept where it would deliver space-based internet connectivity and a reliable communications infrastructure that can […]
U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Jacob Simmons will assume the role of command senior enlisted leader for the U.S. Space Command in Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. He currently serves as CSEL for Space Operations Command. According to a June announcement from the Office of the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the […]
Col. Nicole Petrucci of the U.S. Space Force assumed leadership of the service’s Space Delta 3-Space Electromagnetic Warfare unit during a change of command ceremony on Thursday. Petrucci was a program analyst for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she specialized in cost and program assessment. She succeeded Col. Christopher Fernengel, who led […]
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for purchasing and deploying eight prototype satellites for the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter program of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, formerly known as the National Defense Space Architecture. Each FOO Fighter spacecraft will carry electro-optical/infrared sensors to demonstrate detection, warning, tracking and advanced defense capability against […]
Lt. Gen. John Shaw, deputy head of the U.S. Space Command, said on Thursday that maneuverable platforms are expected to grow more prominent in the next five years of space activities. Speaking at a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event, he noted that what he calls positional space operations may no longer suffice for certain […]
The University of Arizona will expand its human spaceflight work with the NASA Johnson Space Center under a Space Act agreement. The deal allows the university to engage in different aspects of human spaceflight, including proprietary information exchange, research and development and advanced manufacturing. Work under the Space Act agreement would cover aerospace engineering, aeronautics, […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a program to enhance the monitoring of small space debris. IARPA Program Manager Alexis Truitt was selected to lead the four-year Space Debris Identification and Tracking program, which was created in view of the risks centimeter- and millimeter-sized orbital junk pose to operational space assets and space […]
