Author: Frank Wolfe
July 22, 2024
As U.S. Space Force looks for new entrants beside Blue Origin for Phase 3 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL), the service on July 19 awarded more than $1.7 billion in Phase 2 contract modifications to the Space Force’s established rocket providers — United Launch Services, LLC – a subsidiary of United Launch Alliance (ULA) —…
July 17, 2024
The U.S. Space Force began an operational trial of L3Harris Technologies Consolidated Operational Data Archive (CODA) system on July 8, the service’s Space Systems Command (SSC) in El Segundo, California said. The trial will evaluate CODA’s integration of data from ExoAnalytics and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Wide Area Search telescope system. The automated CODA system…
June 18, 2024
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on June 17 that it has awarded laser communication terminal prototype contracts to General Atomics, Blue Origin, CACI International Inc., and Viasat in the first of three phases of the $100 million Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program. The awards came through SSC’s Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), created in 2017 to…
June 14, 2024
Under an umbrella worth up to $5.6 billion over the next five years for at least 30 launches, U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command on June 13 made its first National Security Space Launch (NSSL), Phase 3, Lane 1 awards to Blue Origin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance (ULA). This is the first time Blue Origin is…