QinetiQ’s space business formally opened new cleanroom facilities and secured a new three-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). The $9.9 million (9 million euros) contract with The European Space Agency (ESA) will see QinetiQ developing a hosting facility and experiment modules, which will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in the…

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) awarded L3Harris Technologies an initial $86 million full-rate production order for Falcon IV AN/PRC-163 two-channel handheld tactical radios that will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) operators with communications capabilities. The order is part of a $390 million IDIQ contract awarded by USSOCOM in 2015 under the Next Generation Tactical Communications…

Capella Space was awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force to apply Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the military branch's virtual reality software for the purpose of simulating potential adversary scenarios, support missile defense, and create predictive intelligence to help foresee foreign threats. Capella will also supply an in-house analytics service to deliver…

NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The companies are Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. The additions, which…