Government/Military

Elon Musk tweeted a simulation of what a crewed flight to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon will look like, forecasting a crewed flight during 2020.  “Crew Dragon should...

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $100 million maximum U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite contract to support U.S. Special Operations Command, DoD announced on Dec. 23.  The contract is...

President Trump signed the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Dec. 20, officially standing up the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces under...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sunday, bringing an end to NASA‘s Orbital Flight Test, which missed its objective to dock with...

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space signed a letter of intent on Thursday to create a Centre of Excellence for Clean Space in Luxembourg....

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, the agency announced on Wednesday. The GOES-T mission aims to provide...

Inmarsat Government has ordered a Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 46WGX from Orbit Communications Systems, the companies announced on Thursday. The order comes after the two companies signed a co-development agreement in...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Centurum Information Technology a $89.9 million single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, performance-based service contract utilizing cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders. The contract is for satcom services...

Lockheed Martin delivered the capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA‘s Mars 2020 rover to the Kennedy Space Center, in Titusville, Florida, on Dec. 12. The aeroshell will encapsulate the Mars...

Capella Space, which provides Earth observation imagery, has signed a contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), to study the integration of its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery into the...