Northrop Grumman Corporation launched a spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Wednesday on its Minotaur IV launch vehicle. The launch took off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 9:46 a.m. EDT.  This was the NRO’s first dedicated mission from NASA Wallops Flight Facility, and the NRO’s third launch of 2020. It…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has recently awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. approximately $30 million in contract awards for Command, Control, Computing, Communication, Combat, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Systems. These awards are focused primarily on missile defense related combat systems for U.S. national security.  “We believe that these recent contract awards…

L3Harris Technologies has launched a satellite that is the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites for a classified U.S. Air Force constellation. A representative for the company said Monday that limited details about the launch can be provided because the program is classified.  L3Harris said in a Monday release that as the…

PredaSAR is working to build a constellation of 48 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, and the company’s Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Marc Bell said the Earth Observation (EO) startup will start commercial operations with satellites on-orbit as early as next year.  In a recent conversation with Via Satellite, Bell said PredaSAR’s satellites were in production…