Capella Space was awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force to apply Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the military branch's virtual reality software for the purpose of simulating potential adversary scenarios, support missile defense, and create predictive intelligence to help foresee foreign threats. Capella will also supply an in-house analytics service to deliver…

NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The companies are Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. The additions, which…

Peraton was awarded a contract to develop the Satellite Ground Terminal Prototype for the U.S. Army. Performance of the 20-month contract, awarded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Center Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) under Other Transaction Authority (OTA), will primarily be in Herndon, Virginia. The SpEC OTA promotes the collaborative process conducive to this…

Raytheon is designing Pit Boss, an autonomous mission management system for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Blackjack satellite constellation, with prime Scientific Systems Company. The Blackjack constellation will operate in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). It will network sensors together with a goal to provide persistent global coverage for many applications, including missile warning. Pit…