Space News

May 10, 2023

Space Force wants commercial sat buses to carry ‘bundled’ experiments

Breaking Defense: The Defense Department’s Space Test Program (STP) is setting up a system to buy commercial satellite buses capable of carrying

May 9, 2023

How the Space Force will manage surging launch demand

Defense News: On May 4, SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites, increasing the size of its behemoth broadband

May 2, 2023

How three space agencies are collaborating on next-gen missile warning

C4ISRNET: About a year ago, the Space Force established a combined program office to ensure that the three Pentagon agencies

April 26, 2023

Secretive ‘SILENTBARKER’ sats to launch late summer as space monitoring demands grow

Breaking Defense: The National Reconnaissance Office and the Space Force now plan to launch the first satellites in their highly

April 4, 2023

Space Force fleshing out second phase of missile-tracking program

Defense News: The U.S. Space Force is ramping up planning for the second phase of its medium-Earth orbit missile tracking

April 3, 2023

SpaceX rocket launches Space Development Agency’s first satellites

Defense News: A SpaceX rocket launched the Space Development Agency’s first satellites April 2, sending a mix of 10 missile

March 23, 2023

US Space Force seeks $16 billion to track hypersonic missiles

C4ISRNET The U.S. Space Force said it needs nearly $16 billion over five years to keep building a new class

March 22, 2023

Space Force wants to trim missile warning satellite program

Defense News: The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2024 budget proposes cutting one of five satellites from its Next-Generation Overhead Persistent

March 3, 2023

Raytheon to make seven missile-tracking satellites for US space agency

Defense News: The U.S. Space Development Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $250 million contract to build seven missile-tracking satellites.