Government/Military

The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a March 8 briefing with...

The U.K. is launching a new Space Census as it aims to generate precise data on its space workforce and the challenges ahead as its looks to grow the space...

Farnborough, U.K. — In a keynote at Space-Comm Expo, the commander of UK Space Command said he is “convinced” that space has a PR problem, as people do not understand...

Agile Space Industries received a small business innovation research (SBIR) phase II contract from SpaceWERX, a department of the U.S. Space Force and part of AFWERX and the Air Force...

Farnborough, United Kingdom — The United Kingdom is shaping up for one of the most important years in its history in space, with an expected launch this year. UK Space...

Planet Labs Federal, a subsidiary of Planet Labs, was awarded a contract by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific for vessel detection and monitoring over key areas in the...

BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train...

U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the...

NASA made the decision to cancel the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission, citing technical, cost, and schedule challenges. NASA announced the decision on March 1, which affects...

Umbra on Wednesday said the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has selected the company for the second stage of a commercial remote sensing contract the agency uses to obtain radio satellite-based radio...