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Finance
Firefly Closes $175 Million Funding Round To Scale Production
Firefly Aerospace has raised $175 million in new venture capital that will help it boost production of a multi-mission orbital vehicle and its small lift rocket, and accelerate hardware qualification of […]
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Government/Military
US Space Force Examining Follow-On Support for WGS and DSCS
The U.S. Space Force is seeking industry feedback by Dec. 2 to help the service determine an acquisition strategy for Commercial and Military Satellite Communications Operations Support (COSMOS) — a […]
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Opinion
How is WAVE Leading the Virtualization Revolution in Satcom?
Many remember when mobile phone companies locked our devices to their networks with pre-installed applications. Each phone company would put users into their walled garden, locking them into device/company-specific ecosystems. […]
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Government/Military
US Space Command’s Commercial Integration Cell to Grow Beyond 17 Companies
The U.S. Space Force said on Wednesday that it has added five companies to the U.S. Space Command Combined Space Operations Center’s (CSpOC) Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) at Vandenberg Space […]
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Government/Military
Australia Cancels Satellite Effort With Lockheed Martin to Prioritize Multi-Orbit Solution
The Australian Ministry of Defence on Nov. 4 terminated its procurement activity with Lockheed Martin for a single communications satellite in favor of pursuing multiple spacecraft that could provide a more […]
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Government/Military
Impulse Space, Starfish Space, and Cognitive Space Win NRO BALISTA Contracts
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) said on Wednesday that its Office of Space Launch (OSL) has awarded Broad Agency Announcements for Agile Launch Innovation and Strategic Technology Advancement (BALISTA) contracts […]
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Launch
US Space Force Releases New Solicitation for NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Wednesday released a new solicitation for Phase 3, Lane 1 of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program, and SSC said that it […]
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Opinion
Why Space Cybersecurity Needs More Imagination
In our recent Cal Poly report, we introduced the ICARUS matrix to generate novel scenarios in outer space cybersecurity. It’s meant to guard against a failure of imagination, a key […]
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Regional Focus
Punching Above Its Weight: The Growing Influence of Canada’s Space Industry
From the earliest days of NASA’s Apollo Program to the launch of the International Space Station (ISS), Canada has stood out as a pioneer and trusted U.S. partner in space […]
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Research
Trawling Hacker Forums Uncovers Crucial Information on Space Cyber Attacks
Following the Viasat hack, which took place a few hours prior to the invasion of Ukraine and impacted both the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as thousands of customers across […]
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Opinion
The Need for a Level Playing Field in the Race for Space
There is little doubt that activities in space will be crucial to the future economic wellbeing of humans, apart from important scientific and other discoveries. Future economic growth — from […]
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Government/Military
NROL-167 Launch Another Step in NRO Proliferated Constellation
The NROL-167 mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., is a step toward what the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is calling “the U.S. […]
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Government/Military
Northrop Grumman and Boeing’s Millennium Receive Missile Defense Satellite Awards
Northrop Grumman and Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems on Wednesday received U.S. Space Force (USSF) missile defense awards of nearly $1.8 billion and $386 million, respectively. The almost $1.8 billion award […]
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Launch
SpaceX Nabs $744M in New National Security Space Launch Task Orders
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) last Friday awarded SpaceX task orders worth $733.6 million to launch spacecraft for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) […]
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Launch
Firefly Aerospace to Launch True Anomaly’s Spacecraft for VICTUS HAZE
True Anomaly on Thursday said it has selected Firefly Aerospace to launch its Jackal spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission expected to occur no later […]
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Government/Military
NATO Surveys the Space Capabilities of Member Nations
As the five step North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Planning Process (NDPP) wends its way over the next year to assigning quantitative space system targets to the alliance’s 32 […]
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Government/Military
Millennium Space Completes PDR for FOO Fighter Constellation
Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems in El Segundo, California said on Monday that it has finished preliminary design review (PDR) of the company’s Low Earth Orbit Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO […]
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Government/Military
Impulse Space Nabs $35M US Space Force Contract for 2 TacRS Missions
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Thursday awarded Impulse Space a $34.5 million contract for two tactically responsive space (TacRS) missions in 2026 for space domain awareness and […]
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Opinion
AI at the Space Edge: Vital to All Defense Modernization
The defense landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by rapid technological advancements. Small satellites and artificial intelligence (AI) are at the forefront of this transformation, not as tools for […]
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Technology
Apex SN1 Satellite, Launched in March, Has Anduril Payload
Anduril Industries is teaming with Los Angeles-based Apex to help bring Anduril’s philosophy of mass produced, high tech aircraft, ships, and land systems to space. “We recognize as a company that space has […]
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Opinion
Space and Sustainability: Building a Future in Two Dimensions
Sustainability has become a critical focus across industries, and the space sector is no exception. As our reliance on space grows, so does the need to address the sustainability of […]
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Opinion
Countries Move to Address D2D Spectrum in Regulatory Policy
In a column in 2022, I shared some thoughts on the lack of national regulatory frameworks addressing direct-to-device (D2D) at the time. Later in 2023, I commented that given the […]
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Investing
How Do Space Investors See the Outlook for Space Sustainability?
Alison Perez, a venture capitalist, is always on the hunt for the next transformational technology solution. And lately, it’s the solutions that address sustainability in space that are piquing the […]
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Launch
New Rockets Represent a Window of Opportunity for Access to Space
July 11 was a bad day for SpaceX. For the first time since 2015, its Falcon 9 rocket failed to deliver its payload into orbit. After a flawless launch from […]
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Government/Military
Astranis, Axient, L3Harris, and Sierra Space to Begin Design of Resilient GPS
Astranis, Axient, L3Harris Technologies, and Sierra Space are to submit design concepts for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) to U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) to launch up to eight R-GPS satellites […]
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People
Boeing Defense Chief Leaving, as Ortberg Aims to ‘Restore Trust’ of DoD Buyers
Ted Colbert, the head of Boeing‘s Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment for more than two years, is leaving the company amid significant profitability worries, competition from startup defense firms […]
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Government/Military
SDA Reports Optical Link Success with SpaceX, York Space PWSA Satellites
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Space Development Agency (SDA) continues to advance the communications capabilities of its first batch of satellites on orbit as part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), […]
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Imagery and Sensing
NGA Selects 10 Vendors to Compete Under $290M Luno A Global Monitoring Program
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 10 companies to compete for task orders under a potential five-year, $290 million contract seeking commercial data and analytic services that monitor and assess […]
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Government/Military
NGA Launches Accreditation Pilot for GEOINT AI Models
Amid popular, and some military, concern about the timely accuracy and applicability of artificial intelligence (AI), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is launching a pilot program for accrediting geospatial intelligence […]





























