Government/Military

Agile Space Industries received a small business innovation research (SBIR) phase II contract from SpaceWERX, a department of the U.S. Space Force and part of AFWERX and the Air Force...

Farnborough, United Kingdom — The United Kingdom is shaping up for one of the most important years in its history in space, with an expected launch this year. UK Space...

Planet Labs Federal, a subsidiary of Planet Labs, was awarded a contract by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific for vessel detection and monitoring over key areas in the...

BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train...

U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the...

NASA made the decision to cancel the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission, citing technical, cost, and schedule challenges. NASA announced the decision on March 1, which affects...

Umbra on Wednesday said the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has selected the company for the second stage of a commercial remote sensing contract the agency uses to obtain radio satellite-based radio...

Redwire Corporation has opened a new facility in Chantilly, Virginia to support the company’s growing number of national security programs and customers. Redwire announced the new facility on Feb. 27. ...

Viasat was awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) also referred to...

The South Korea Ministry of Defense (MOD) signed a deal with Iridium to integrate Iridium products and services for military operations, including real-time position tracking capabilities for soldiers. Iridium announced...