The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, want industry input on new mission planning tools for satellites. AFRL’s space vehicles directorate has been exploring how to integrate a network of U.S. military, allied, and commercial satellites that…

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build high-performance Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for future systems. “The United States Space Force is seeking to improve the density and performance of SRH NVMs for future space and strategic systems,”…

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lofted the Boeing and Northrop Grumman communications satellites into orbit on Jan. 15 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the USSF-67 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission launched Boeing's Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM (CBAS)-2 satellite and Northrop Grumman's Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE)-3A satellite. The USSF-67 mission was…

Raytheon Technologies’ Intelligence & Space and Boeing's Millennium Space Systems — both in El Segundo, California — are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads under contract awards from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Raytheon said on Jan. 4 that its…