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Gen. Whiting Identifies Ways to Achieve Victory in Space as a Warfighting Domain
COLORADO SPRING, Colo.— The Golden Dome space defense concept put forward by President Trump has the full support of U.S. Space Command, Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting said Tuesday at Space Symposium in a speech about current threats and Space Command initiatives. “It is our opponents, most notably China, who have accelerated the terrestrial and on-orbit…
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Millennium Space Systems Completes FOO Fighter Critical Design Review in 10 Months
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company, completed the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) critical design review (CDR) in just 10 months after authorization to proceed. “Meeting rapid timelines is essential to ensuring we deliver mission capabilities when needed,” said Doug Hulse, portfolio lead, Millennium Space Systems. “Completing the FOO Fighter critical design review in…
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Raytheon Awards Dual-Source Contracts for Solid Rocket Motor Development
Raytheon has awarded contracts to Nammo and Northrop Grumman for initial phase work on MK72 solid rocket motor development. “These contracts are an important step toward increasing capacity and source options to meet global demand for critical defense systems, such as Standard Missile,” said Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon. “In addition to…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches three missions; New Shepard completes NS-31
During this active week of launches, SpaceX launched Falcon 9 three times, and New Shepard carried the first all-woman crew above the Kármán line. On April 10, China successfully launched a Cheng Zhang 3B/E rocket into geostationary transfer orbit. SpaceX launched NROL-192 and Starlink Group 12-17 on April 12, followed by an expected launch of…
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LeoLabs Announces Expeditionary Radar for Advanced Space Domain Awareness Missions
LeoLabs, the world’s leading mission partner for persistent Orbital Intelligence, announced plans to further proliferate its Global Radar Network with Scout, a new, next-generation radar class designed for mobility, modularity, and rapid deployment. As space becomes more congested, competitive, and unpredictable, this new paradigm in ground-based space surveillance is designed to keep pace with and…
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How the Ground Segment Enables Innovation in Space With Comtech’s Daniel Gizinski
As innovation has accelerated in satellite communications in the past five years, it has put pressure on hardware and software providers to deliver greater performance and more flexible capabilities. While technology in space tends to get a lot of attention, its hardware on the ground that makes delivering services from space possible. On Orbit interviewed…
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SpaceX to launch second accelerated GPS 3 satellite mission in late May
Seen here prior to being sealed in its shipping container at Lockheed Martin’s Littleton, Colorado facility, SV08 will join the U.S. Space Force’s operational GPS constellation in orbit. Image: Lockheed Martin. Following the successful accelerated launch of a Global Positioning System on a Falcon 9 rocket in mid-December, the U.S. Space Force, Lockheed Martin and…
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Viasat to Offer Telesat Lightspeed LEO Services Starting in 2027
Global satellite operators Viasat and Telesat have signed a significant multi-year contract agreement that will see Viasat purchase Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity for aviation, maritime, enterprise and defense markets from Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation. Viasat said the purchase from Telesat is part of the operator’s strategy to build a multi-orbit offering for its entire market…
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Viasat Partners with Telesat to Expand Multi-Orbit Services Roadmap
Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, announced the advancement of its multi-orbit services roadmap. Viasat has signed an agreement with Telesat to integrate Telesat Lightspeed LEO Ka-band capacity into its multi-orbit network to deliver a new standard of connectivity across its mobility and defense business portfolio. The LEO capacity from Telesat Lightspeed will be…
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Astroscale Selected for US Space Force Refueling Mission in GEO Orbit
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a contract to Astroscale‘s U.S. subsidiary to conduct two hydrazine refueling operations of a U.S. Space Force (USSF) satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). Astroscale U.S. will use its 300-kilogram Refueler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in the summer of 2026, to complete the mission. The DoD contract is an…