Government/Military

Viasat will develop a phased array antenna for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract as part of the ‘Global Lightning’ program.  The AFRL awarded Viasat a $33.6...

PARIS — SpaceX’s Starshield now looms large over the Earth observation (EO) market as industry players look to grow revenues in a market that has not always lived up to...

PARIS — International Space Command leaders are pushing for more cooperation in space as the domain becomes more contested. Speaking at the Space Defense and Security Summit this week in...

SpaceX sent a letter to Congress this week taking issue with the speed that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is able to approve licensing materials, after the FAA proposed $633,009...

Astranis won a U.S. Space Force contract to add military Ka-band frequency compatibility to its next-generation Omega satellite.  Space Systems Command (SSC) and U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) announced on Sept....

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to design and build the next-generation GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GeoXO satellites. The baseline contract...

Telesat hired a retired Canadian brigadier general to lead its ​​government go-to-market and business development strategy for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. The Canadian operator announced retired Brig. Gen....

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Space Development Agency (SDA) continues to advance the communications capabilities of its first batch of satellites on orbit as part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA),...

PARIS — Acquiring resilient satellite communications lies at the heart of the U.S. Space Force’s commercial space strategy, but according to Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton, Commander of U.S. Space Forces...

PARIS — In an address at the World Space Business Week (WSBW) event in Paris, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher told attendees that the ESA Directorate for Commercialization...