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K2 has positioned itself around a strategy of building bigger satellites for both commercial and defense customers. Its Torrance, California facility is designed for industrial-scale production of large, high-power satellites, a capability the company plans to demonstrate with its upcoming Trinity mission, which will operate across multiple Earth orbits. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the…

The Space Force was stood up in December 2019. Despite that span of time, the people responsible for operating U.S. military space systems still do not have the basic simulators required for realistic training. The new contract pool is intended to close that gap. Gen. Greg Gagnon, head of Space Force Combat Forces Command, acknowledged…

The Pad 1 retrofit began shortly after the end of Flight 11 and Block 2 of Starship. The work will bring the pad in line with Pad 2, LC-39A, and the still under construction SLC-37 pads. Since starting, crews have made progress on the flame trench and are now beginning construction of the launch mount…

The command is one element of a wider reform intended to create flexible structures that do not require fundamental reorganisation once a conflict begins. General Król, the Chief of the General Staff’s representative for the development of Poland’s wartime command system, described the effort in an interview with Defence24.pl. He stressed that the development of…

The new facility combines and improves upon the capabilities of two historic NASA Langley wind tunnels, the 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel and the 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunnel. It was built through a partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration and replaces aging infrastructure with an energy-efficient design that reduces maintenance costs. It is the fourth new…

The Starlink 17-52 mission lifted off four days later than originally planned. As is usual, SpaceX did not disclose why the flight was repeatedly delayed from its original launch date of Monday, July 27. The mission adds to a Starlink constellation that now numbers more than 10,800 satellites in orbit. Starlink 17-52 is the 69th…

The reported rationale centers on geopolitical concerns rather than financial ones. The story is framed not as a standalone divestiture but as Tesla positioning itself for a combination with SpaceX, suggesting the geopolitical entanglement of the China market is viewed as a potential obstacle to such a deal. The report, attributed to the Wall Street…

The maneuver marks the second time Japan has set the record in this category. The agency previously executed the Hayabusa missions, establishing a track record of close asteroid encounters. The probe closed to within 400 meters of the asteroid’s surface, a distance described by the agency as the nearest ever achieved on a flyby mission.…