Author: Frank Wolfe

While the U.S. Space Force explores future communications options and plans to halt fiscal 2026 funding for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 3, Transport Layer Low-Earth Orbit satellites, the...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is to ramp up Vulcan rocket launches significantly in the next two years to a possible annual number of more than 30 by 2027 — 60%...

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is awarding contracts for the Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program to Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Viasat, Astranis, and Intelsat General, the U.S. division of Luxembourg’s SES,...

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The eighth X-37B mission is set...

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2026 defense bill would require the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to establish a Title 10 requirement for the tactical, surveillance,...

Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) gave a boost to Boeing‘s confidence last week, as SSC chose the company over Northrop Grumman for a $2.8 billion contract to build the first...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Friday that it has awarded SpaceX a nearly $82 million contract to launch the USSF-178 mission under a National Security Space...

The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2026 budget request provides $277 million for the MILNET proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation and halts funding for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 3, Transport...

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (USSF SSC) is exploring the possible lease of commercial small and medium satellites able to maneuver in Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO) to detect threats and...

While the U.S. Space Force’s first Space Warfighting Framework, released last month, highlights the importance of satellite maneuver to complicate adversary surveillance and targeting, in-space refueling to ease such maneuver is...