Government/Military

The Philippines will become more active in the space race following President Rodrigo Duterte’s enactment of a new law. Duterte on August 8 signed the Philippine Space Act, which creates...

BAE Systems was awarded a Phase 2 contract to develop Machine Learning (ML) capabilities aimed to help the military gain better awareness of space scenarios for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was selected by the PSN Consortium, led by Indonesian satellite operator Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deliver a unified ground station monitoring solution to support the...

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V rocket today, carrying AEHF-5 — the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force Space and...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to evolve the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) system, the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system. The BMDS operates...

Spaceflight managed the procurement, integration, and mission management services for three spacecraft on Rocket Lab’s next mission aboard an Electron rocket. This mission, called “Look Ma, No Hands” by Rocket Lab,...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) significantly streamlined the application process for small satellites, providing an alternative, cheaper, and more flexible authorization process. Given recent innovation in the small satellite sector and...

A Mishap Investigation Board appointed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) identified the most likely cause for an instrument issue aboard NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...

Gilat Satellite Networks subsidiary Wavestream received orders for over $7 million for the U.S. Army‘s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. WIN-T was established to provide connectivity via the U.S. Department of Defense...

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space are a launching a “Clean Space” initiative to foster sustainability in space. The Clean Space initiative would evaluate...