Government/Military
April 13, 2021
Lockheed Martin is releasing a new line of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites designed for larger constellations and rapid satellite production. According to the Tuesday announcement, this line is based on Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 mid-size satellite bus. The LM 400 is a configurable bus about the size of a refrigerator, and there are…
April 12, 2021
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin contracts for the first phase of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) demonstration program. The awards, announced Monday, are for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. This program looks to demonstrate a NTP system above Low-Earth Orbit…
April 6, 2021
The Secure World Foundation released a report suggesting that Russia is testing new Anti-Satellite (ASAT) and Direct Ascent Anti-Satellite (DA-ASAT) technologies that could threaten spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), and eventually, Geostationary Orbit (GEO). In the April 2021 report, "Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment," co-authors Brian Weeden and Victoria Samson wrote that Russia…
April 2, 2021
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