The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is giving a $150 million conditional loan to Rocket Lab meant to increase the launch rate for its new reusable Neutron rocket, which is slated for its first flight next year.
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Space Systems Command recently awarded Viasat a contract with a $450 million ceiling to design and field a mission operations center for the command’s burgeoning Space Data Network.
As commercial companies, universities, and research agencies develop new approaches to operating satellites at lower and lower altitudes, the Space Force is taking notice and considering how it might leverage those advances in both the near and long term.
The Space Force has spent the past few years preparing for war. Now, it has fought one. The U.S. military has chronicled its strikes by sea and air on Iranian military sites in Operation Epic Fury, as well as its...
Thousands more Guardians. Hundreds of new satellites. Newly disclosed on-orbit weapons. At AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September, Space Force leaders laid out how the service is in the process of transforming from a small, secretive pocket of...
Modern warfare depends on the ability to move, integrate, protect, and exploit data at speed and scale. Yet operational timelines continue to compress, and military sensors, autonomous systems, and proliferated satellite constellations are generating increasing volumes of data. Designed for...
The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced a $150 million loan agreement to space intelligence company LeoLabs to expand its manufacturing capacity and add dozens of radars to its global network by 2030.
The Space Force wants to increase the size of its components to better support combatant commands in the coming years, according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess. “We’re going to add 2,800 Guardians and 2,000 civilians in fiscal 2027 if the budget comes through,” ...
In his first professional move since retiring from the Space Force at the end of August, former Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman will lead the board of advisors for Voyager Technologies, the firm announced Nov. 2.