Government/Military

BlackSky has won multiple contracts for its analytics services through a new pilot program from the U.S. Space Force’s Global Data Marketplace (GDM), the company announced Friday.  The Global Data […]

A question mark for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company’s satellites would link with other companies’ birds, but […]

Rocket Lab completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta layer satellites the company is building for the Space Development Agency (SDA), Rocket Lab announced Thursday. […]

Maxar Intelligence was awarded a $14.4M framework contract by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a four-year Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP) Pro subscription, Maxar announced Jan. 9.  This agreement […]

NASA announced a series of task orders on Dec. 20 under the agency’s Near Space Network services contracts. The Near Space Network provides communications and navigation services between NASA missions […]

K2 Space won a U.S. Space Force contract to build its first ‘Mega’-class satellite for a planned launch to Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO). The mission, set for February 2026, is called […]

Turion Space won a $32.6 million fixed-price contract to build three satellites for the Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) with multiple payloads and real-time command and control.  Under the […]

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed allocating more spectrum for space launch communication. The proposal announced on Dec. 19 would reallocate the 2360–2395 MHz band on a secondary basis for […]

NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a $179 million award to deliver six experiments to the Moon in 2028. This will be Firefly’s third lunar mission and it is its fourth NASA […]

A ThinKom ThinAir antenna was the primary communications technology onboard the Rapcon-X aircraft’s recent inaugural flight.  Rapcon-X is an aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (A-ISR) solution by Sierra Nevada Corporation […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded additional funding to SpiderOak to demonstrate integrating the U.S. Space Force’s identity and access management software within the company’s platform. SpiderOak announced the addition […]

U.S. government contractor Akima is focused on growing its footprint while working to reinforce security and maintain a technical edge for the national defense sector.  Earlier this year, Five Rivers […]

The European Commission signed the contract on Monday for Europe’s IRIS² constellation with the group of companies tasked with delivering the constellation in the SpaceRISE consortium.  The EC Director-General for […]

SpaceX wants to incorporate Starbase as its own city in Texas. The Starbase production site in Cameron County, Texas, is home to development of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.  Kathy Lueders, former […]

Telespazio has won two new contracts worth 144 million euros ($151.3 million) to provide services to the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) and the European Commission. The […]

The Peruvian Air Force (PAF) is using satellite connectivity via the SES-14 Geostationary (GEO) high throughput satellite for its bases and pilots and to improve operations across the country, SES […]

Viasat has received a new five-year contract worth up to $568 million from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to support U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) technology modernization. The award […]

The incoming administration of President-elect Trump is likely to propose a ramping up of commercial space to serve national security needs, according to a new paper from the National Security […]

PERTH, Western Australia — Space policy needs to take center stage in Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific regional co-operation to help address shared issues the region faces, regional leaders said at the […]

Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded SES Space & Defense a blanket purchase agreement to deliver multi-orbit, multi-band satellite capabilities to United States European Command (USEUCOM). The purchase agreement announced Monday […]

Muon Space has received a SpaceWERX contract to advance space-based environmental monitoring capabilities. The award, announced Dec. 5, will support Muon Space’s development of a multi-mission, multispectral electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) instrument.  […]

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA as administrator. Isaacman is an entrepreneur and the founder of Shift4 and Draken International, and known […]

Northrop Grumman has reached a key milestone in a major Arctic satellite mission. It has successfully handed over mission operations of Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) satellites and […]

Orbit Communications Systems has won a new deal from the Israeli Ministry of Defense. It will provide multi-purpose satellite communication terminals (MPTs) for mobile and stationary ground platforms. The deal […]

PERTH, Western Australia — Australia lacks a national direction when it comes to defense space policy and the country should be working closely with the commercial space industry and looking […]

Airbus has signed a contract with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to provide the next-generation modems for the nation’s Skynet satellite communications constellation. Airbus is building the Skynet 6A […]

NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the agency’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s Titan moon on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2028. The firm-fixed-price contract announced Monday is worth $256.6 […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized agreements with Rocket Lab and BAE Systems Electronic Systems for funding under the CHIPS program for investment in semiconductors used in satellites.  Rocket […]

The leader of the U.S. Space Force command focused on buying and operating satellites for the U.S. military told the CyberSat conference this week that he, like many other government […]

Military forces’ demand for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what the U.S. Space Force expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders — […]