Space Development Agency calls on satellite builders to diversify suppliers Original Publication Date: 2024-06-09 11:13 Space Development Agency is pushing prime contractors to line up secondary and tertiary suppliers. The agency is in discussions with all its major vendors about “diversifying ...

General Atomics acquires electro-optical sensor supplier EO Vista Original Publication Date: 2023-09-16 09:34 Defense contractor General Atomics announced Sept. 15 it acquired EO Vista, a supplier of space and airborne electro-optical sensors. EO Vista, based in Acton, Massachusetts, will be ...

First Virgin Orbit U.K. launch fails Original Publication Date: 2023-01-10 01:39 Virgin Orbit's first launch from the United Kingdom failed to reach orbit. The company incorrectly reported that the rocket's upper stage and payloads had reached orbit. It was the sixth LauncherOne mission for the ...

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 ...

Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial options to deploy satellites in deep space Original Publication Date: 2022-12-07 23:51 Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial services to deploy and operate payloads. Area known as cislunar space begins at geosynchronous Earth orbit and extends out. ...

SpaceX rolls out new business line focused on military satellite services Original Publication Date: 2022-12-03 15:25 SpaceX on Dec. 2 revealed a new business segment called Starshield aimed at U.S. National security government agencies. Starshield will leverage the Starlink internet ...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches first U.S. national security mission Original Publication Date: 2022-11-01 15:01 USSF-44 was SpaceX’s 50th launch of 2022. USSF-44 was a direct-to-geostationary orbit launch. It carried two Space Force satellites and small rideshare payloads. Both side boosters ...

Starlink’s survivability in war a good sign for DoD’s future constellation Original Publication Date: 2022-10-25 18:47 SDA Director Derek Tournear said Starlink's performance so far speaks to the power of a proliferated constellation. Russia in November demonstrated it can strike a satellite in ...

Nelson satisfied with NASA authorization act Original Publication Date: 2022-08-10 11:24 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says agency has "gotten what we need" From bill. President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act Aug. 9. The bill was intended to stimulate domestic production ...