Government/Military
March 14, 2024
The FCC adopted a new regulatory framework on Thursday to allow satellite operators to use mobile spectrum to provide satellite-t0-cell coverage The FCC said this is the world’s first regulatory framework for "supplemental coverage from space." All five FCC commissioners approved the framework in the March 14 meeting. The FCC said this type of service…
March 13, 2024
BlackSky won a $24 million Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to develop moving target engagement services, the company announced Wednesday. BlackSky received an initial award of $3.5 million. Blacksky said it will use its Spectra tasking and analytics platform to demonstrate how AI and machine learning techniques affect multi-INT collection, automatic tipping-and-cueing, direct downlink…
March 12, 2024
NASA released its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal on Monday, requesting $25.4 billion, as the agency works to return humans to the Moon in the Artemis program; advance climate research; and continue the transition to commercial space stations. This total is less than NASA has asked for in recent years. The $25.4 billion ask is…
March 12, 2024
The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a March 8 briefing with reporters. “We made a [fiscal 2025] tradeoff in the Air Force between procurement and research and development in order to move forward as fast as…