Author: Calvin Biesecker

Firefly Aerospace on Monday said it has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to supply its Elytra spacecraft for a 2027 mission in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for responsive...

Startup satellite developer Portal Space Systems on Thursday said it raised $17.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round that will support the full-scale demonstration of its Supernova multi-role, transorbital spacecraft...

Space Systems Command (SSC) on Thursday announced a potential $5.6 billion multiple award contract for its National Security Space Launch (NSSL), with Rocket Lab and Stoke Space Technologies being added to the nation’s...

The U.S. Space Force will soon release a strategy outlining its framework for attaining space superiority and to give operational planners a common playbook, the service’s top uniformed official said...

Rocket Lab USA intends to acquire German optical communications company Mynaric in a $75 million deal that would bring a key supplier in house, expand its international footprint, and, it...

BlackSky Technology on Tuesday said that it won a “multimillion dollar” contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to manage and operate one of the company’s Generation-3 Earth imaging satellites...

L3Harris Technologies on Thursday reported a substantial increase in net income in the fourth quarter driven in large part by a charge a year ago in a business that it is...

Space infrastructure company Redwire Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Edge Autonomy in a $925 million deal that would take it into new territory, autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...

Slingshot Aerospace on Nov. 25 received a potential $13.3 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to develop the user interface for a new space traffic coordination...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Tuesday said it has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a potential $116.7 contract to create and operate a missile defense fire control ground infrastructure...