Calvin Biesecker

Maxar Intelligence on Tuesday said it received $204.7 million in new multi-year contracts from three existing customers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region to boost sovereign defense and intelligence […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) on July 1 released the Europa solicitation for prototype space vehicles, seeking proposals for advanced communication protocols, and commercial solutions based on government taskings. The Tranche […]

Maxar Intelligence on Wednesday announced a new solution suite that applies artificial intelligence-enabled analytics to geospatial imagery for persistent global monitoring of fixed sites and vessels on the open sea to […]

BlackSky Technology has received a potential $24-plus million task order to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) with object detection monitoring of military and economic facilities worldwide. The initial award […]

Satellite developer Portal Space Systems on Tuesday said it has opened a 50,000 square-foot manufacturing facility, the startup’s first as it prepares to begin production of its highly maneuverable Supernova spacecraft. The […]

Voyager Technologies on Wednesday went public after pricing its initial public offering at $31 per share, $2 higher that the company’s top estimate announced a week ago, raising $383 million for […]

Space computer and autonomous spacecraft startup Aethero raised an $8.4 million seed round to further its technology development. Aethero, based in San Franciso, said the seed round was led by Kindred […]

ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the U.S. Space Force on Wednesday signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) clarifying their respective roles and responsibilities in carrying out […]

ST. LOUIS — A new version of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) primary tool for ordering imagery should be ready for operational use later this year, an agency official said. […]

ST. LOUIS — Mirroring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s priority of opening up the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) procurement process to find the best solutions, the intelligence community is doing […]

ST. LOUIS — The use of geospatial intelligence to accelerate decision making from the time a potential target has been detected until an effect is put against it has been […]

Varda Space Industries on Tuesday said its W-3 capsule successfully landed in South Australia following two months on orbit in a test of an inertial measurement technology in the high-hypersonic reentry […]

Building on its existing network of companies that are helping lay the foundation for a Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday said it has awarded […]

Space Systems Command (SSC) on Tuesday said it has awarded SciTec, Inc. a $259 million contract to deliver a ground-processing capability that supports the U.S. Space Force’s legacy and new missile […]

Flush with demand for its standardized spacecraft buses and seeking to speed production, Apex on Tuesday said it has raised $200 million in a Series C round that will be put toward […]

Space Domain Awareness provider Slingshot Aerospace on Tuesday debuted what it says is the “world’s first” package to provide sovereign nations with their own space tracking capabilities, decreasing their reliance on outside […]

The U.S. Space Force on Thursday released its first-ever Space Warfighting framework, outlining the activities and considerations to fight in, and out of, space to achieve superiority in the domain. The […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting approaches for prototype spacecraft that can autonomously navigate and be highly maneuverable in a Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) for cislunar space […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Department of the Air Force’s acting space acquisition chief recently added a senior adviser to his staff to honcho the seemingly gargantuan task of integrating and making […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The Space Force is assessing its supply chain risks and vulnerabilities more comprehensively after initially looking at the piece parts, which has put the service in a […]

Firefly Aerospace on Monday said it has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to supply its Elytra spacecraft for a 2027 mission in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for responsive […]

Startup satellite developer Portal Space Systems on Thursday said it raised $17.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round that will support the full-scale demonstration of its Supernova multi-role, transorbital spacecraft […]

Space Systems Command (SSC) on Thursday announced a potential $5.6 billion multiple award contract for its National Security Space Launch (NSSL), with Rocket Lab and Stoke Space Technologies being added to the nation’s […]

The U.S. Space Force will soon release a strategy outlining its framework for attaining space superiority and to give operational planners a common playbook, the service’s top uniformed official said […]

BlackSky Technology on Tuesday said that it won a “multimillion dollar” contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to manage and operate one of the company’s Generation-3 Earth imaging satellites […]

L3Harris Technologies on Thursday reported a substantial increase in net income in the fourth quarter driven in large part by a charge a year ago in a business that it is […]

Space infrastructure company Redwire Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Edge Autonomy in a $925 million deal that would take it into new territory, autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) […]

Slingshot Aerospace on Nov. 25 received a potential $13.3 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to develop the user interface for a new space traffic coordination […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Tuesday said it has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a potential $116.7 contract to create and operate a missile defense fire control ground infrastructure […]

Starfish Space on Wednesday announced a new funding round that will allow it to complete development and build of three spacecraft that will be used for on-orbit docking and maneuvering missions […]