Government/Military

The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. a $222.5 million contract to maintain the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites.  DSP satellites...

Five industry groups have joined protests against the FCC’s approval of Ligado’s L-band network plan in April. The group, Keep GPS Working Coalition was founded by the Association of Equipment...

Capella Space signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The CRADA gives Capella access to NGA researchers for deeper insight into problems...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer study contract to York Space Systems, in conjunction with Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver). The project...

Virgin Galactic signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) while enabling the development...

Maxar Technologies today announced that it was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an analytics system for characterizing and tracking the behavior of vehicles in...

Plans for the U.S. Space Force to award two launch services contracts for its next batch of national security space missions this summer remain on track, the Space and Missile...

The Pentagon released a new Defense Space Strategy June 17, laying out four lines of effort meant to maintain U.S. superiority in the space domain and counteract ever-growing threats by...

The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) awarded Peraton task order CTC0331, a $56 million contract under the Future Commercial Satcom Acquisition (FCSA) program. The newly awarded contract...

The United States and United Kingdom have signed an agreement paving the way for U.S. companies to launch from U.K. spaceports. According to the U.S. Department of State, the agreement...