Focus: Military

The U.S. Space Force has reached a contract with SpaceX to reuse Falcon 9 boosters for upcoming Global Positioning System (GPS)-III launches, a first of its kind for National Security...

SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems have received an antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b Medium Earth...

With the announcement of the U.S. Space Force military branch, my generation, Gen Z, was spared from reliving the jaded optimism of the 1970s-era space culture. It also saved us...

Maxar Technologies was awarded a sole-source, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Geospatial Center to deliver multiple portable, direct-downlink tactical ground systems providing geospatial intelligence to users in remote...

Nations that damage satellites are ripe for legal challenge under the 1972 Liability Convention to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested on Tuesday In a...

Rocket Lab has completed its final dress rehearsal from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia. The smallsat launcher is now ready for its...

The U.S. Navy has selected Get SAT‘s Ultra Blade L-Band ESA (Electronically Steerable Array Antenna) to pair with SeaLandAire‘s ADARO, an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). Ultra Blade will allow Beyond...

The U.S. Air Force is developing two digitally engineered satellites — so-called “eSats,” Dr. Will Roper, service acquisition chief, told the Air Force Association virtual Air, Space, and Cyber (vASC)...

R4 Integration revealed on Tuesday that Inmarsat has given type approval for R4 Integration’s R4 C-130 Multi-Purpose Hatch System (MPHS) for use over the Inmarsat Global Xpress network. Global Xpress...

The White House on Sept. 4 released Space Policy Directive-5 (SPD-5) regarding cybersecurity for space systems, as a senior administration official told reporters that cyber threats on U.S. space systems happen with...