Space News

June 24, 2024

House Intelligence chair blasts White House over Russia’s space nuke threat

Space News House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) is ripping into the Biden administration for not being more transparent

June 24, 2024

Lockheed Martin secures $977.5 million contract extension for missile-warning satellites

Space News The Pentagon announced on June 21 that Lockheed Martin Space has been awarded a $977.5 million contract extension

June 24, 2024

Next-Gen OPIR: 2 steps forward, 1 step back for missile warning effort

Breaking Defense The Space Force’s flagship but somewhat troubled missile warning satellite development program is babystepping its way toward deployment

June 21, 2024

New Report: USSF’s Missile Warning Satellites in All Orbits Face Challenges

Air & Space Forces Magazine The Space Force is working on dozens of new missile warning and tracking satellites that

June 17, 2024

Missile Defense Agency satellites track first hypersonic launch

Satnews The Defense Department’s advanced missile tracking satellites logged their first views of a hypersonic flight test this week, according

June 13, 2024

AFWERX taps LeoLabs to demo radar for monitoring sats in very low orbits

Breaking Defense he Department of the Air Force’s innovation hub, AFWERX, has awarded LeoLabs a contract to demonstrate a new

June 13, 2024

Space Force turning to commercial sats to enhance in-space monitoring

Breaking Defense Following its success at tapping hundreds of ground-based commercial sensors to keep eyes on the heavens, the Space Force now

June 12, 2024

Pentagon embracing SpaceX’s Starshield for future military satcom

Space News In a stark illustration of how rapidly the satellite communications landscape is shifting toward large constellations of smaller

June 10, 2024

Report: Space Force transitioning to new model for the defense of space

Space News An analysis of the U.S. Space Force’s budget proposed for fiscal year 2025 indicates the service is embracing

June 10, 2024

DARPA project uses AI to flag space weapons, spy satellites

C4ISRNET As more governments and commercial companies look to proliferated satellite constellations for increased capacity, some defense experts are concerned