Space Force awards $200 million contract to Northrop Grumman for UK radar site Original Publication Date: 2024-08-23 23:13 The U.S. Space Force awarded a $200 million contract to Northrop Grumman. The contract is for the second site of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability. The initiative is ...

FCC adopts revised NGSO spectrum-sharing rules Original Publication Date: 2023-04-21 01:57 The FCC adopted new rules April 20 governing how fixed-satellite service operators share spectrum. Operators awarded licenses in different FCC application processing rounds must avoid interfering with ...

Managing the complexity of the world’s largest satellite navigation system Original Publication Date: 2023-03-13 04:00 Spaceopal is a joint venture between Telespazio and DLR-GfR. Founded in 2010, it is the prime contractor for the operational services of the European Satellite Navigation ...

Lynk Global finalizing ground station for direct-to-smartphone services Original Publication Date: 2023-01-27 21:47 Lynk Global is close to completing a ground station in Hawaii. The Ka-band ground station is needed to route cellular signals Lynk’s satellites pick up from low Earth orbit. It is ...

SpaceX launches U.S. Space Force’s first mission of 2023 on Falcon Heavy Original Publication Date: 2023-01-15 23:18 USSF-67 was Falcon Heavy's second national security space launch. Both side boosters landed back at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2. The primary payload was the U.S. Space Force’s ...

NASASpaceFlight.com India launches a new ocean monitoring satellite on Saturday morning. The EOS-06 spacecraft was delivered into a low Earth orbit. The mission, PSLV C54, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 11:56 local time (06:26 UTC) Commercial Archives SpaceX has launched its ...

Omnibus includes budget increases for Office of Space Commerce and FAA commercial space office Original Publication Date: 2022-12-21 12:21 The omnibus spending bill includes $70 million for the Office of Space Commerce. The administration requested $87 million for the office in its budget ...

L3Harris to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion Original Publication Date: 2022-12-18 23:02 L3Harris is buying Aerojet at $58 per share in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in 2023, pending regulatory approvals. Lockheed Martin sought to buy Aerojet in a $4.4 ...

X-37B space plane completes its sixth mission, lands after nearly 30 months in orbit Original Publication Date: 2022-11-12 19:38 The X-37B space plane landed Nov. 12 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It set a new endurance record after spending 908 days on orbit. This was the sixth ...

NASA outlines case for making sole-source SLS award to Boeing-Northrop joint venture Original Publication Date: 2022-10-17 09:46 NASA published Oct. 12 a document formally known as the Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition. The document explains NASA’s rationale to sole-source ...