Government/Military

The White House has requested record funding for NASA in fiscal year 2022 of $24.8 billion to fund priorities like the Artemis lunar program and research to fight climate change....

The U.S. Space Force (USSF), which became an independent military service in December, 2019, is requesting $11.3 billion for research and development in the service’s fiscal 2022 budget — an...

U.S. Defense Department agencies are working with a who’s-who of military contractors, commercial satellite operators, and technology companies to finally demonstrate the feasibility of a proliferated constellation of satellites in...

Viasat continues its opposition against SpaceX’s Starlink constellation on environmental grounds, and said in its latest filing to the FCC that if the commission does not stay its approval of...

The U.S. Department of Defense has signed an additional order from SES Government Services for satellite services from the O3b constellation. The 11.8 million task order is part of a...

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft have demonstrated satellite-to-cloud data processing in recent tests for the U.S. Department of Defense, that also involved Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.  In the tests, announced...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a missile warning satellite called the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) Flight 5 on Tuesday for the U.S. Space Force....

KBR has won a new contract worth $51.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deploy an antenna network that will monitor space weather. Under the contract,...

OneWeb will acquire Texas-based managed satellite communications company TrustComm, under the terms of a definitive agreement announced by the two companies on Monday. The Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator said...

OneWeb has signed its first commercial services contract with Hughes Network Systems for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Hughes is the prime contractor on the project, and will...