Focus: Military
January 24, 2022
The U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command launched the fifth and sixth Northrop Grumman Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 21. The mission, called USSF-8, was the first GSSAP launch since 2016. The Atlas V rocket for the Jan. 21…
January 20, 2022
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) awarded Parsons Corporation a contract to develop a prototype ground operations center for the Blackjack. DARPA awarded the $11 million sole-source contract in December 2021. Blackjack is a program to leverage commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology to demonstrate a global high-speed network for the U.S. Department of…
January 13, 2022
SES Government Solutions (SES GS) launched a new X-band end-to-end managed service platform on Thursday for both fixed and mobile U.S. military and government end-users. The platform, tactiXs, allows customers to purchase secure volume-based Mbps services on-demand as opposed to standard MHz bandwidth agreements. The tactiXs service will utilize secure, non-preemptible X-band capacity from the…
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $15.5 million contract to HawkEye 360 on Tuesday to provide space-based radio frequency (RF) data, analytics, and research to the help the military demonstrate, test and evaluate its hybrid space Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) architecture. HawkEye 360 will provide these services, including embedded personnel support, data collection, and…