Tag: Ground
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AFRL and Ursa Major Accelerate Flights with Draper Liquid Rocket Engine’s Follow-on Flight
Just forty-five days after the preceding flight, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Ursa Major have executed a follow-on flight of the Affordable Rapid Missile Demonstrator (ARMD) powered by the Draper liquid rocket engine, expanding the flight envelope and proving rapid turnaround of critical hardware. ARMD continues at an aggressive pace, achieving an unprecedented development-to-flight…
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True Anomaly Expands into Space-Based Interceptors
True Anomaly announced its expansion into space-based interceptors (“SBIs”) and its selection to perform within the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (“SSC”) SBI program. As part of Golden Dome for America, the SBI program responds to a generational mandate to protect the United States homeland from potential ballistic missile and hypersonic attacks. “Our role…
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IonQ Launches Commercial InSAR for Automated Millimeter-Precise Earth Monitoring
IonQ, the world’s leading quantum technology company, announced the commercial launch of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities through its space missions line. The offering enables millimetre-precision ground deformation monitoring with fully automated tasking and data delivery, enabling customers to detect and track physical change on the Earth’s surface consistently, at a frequency and scale…
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Mission Space to Launch Fourth Space Weather Payload on HEX20 Maya V1 Mission
During the 2026 Space Weather Workshop, Mission Space announced that it will fly the fourth in-orbit space weather payload on HEX20’s MAYA-V1 mission, a 16U-class LEO hosted-payload platform designed for in-orbit validation of new space technologies. MAYA-V1 is part of HEX20’s Multi-Application Yearly Assimilated Vehicle mission series, built on the company’s NX spacecraft bus. The…
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EarthDaily Launches Six Satellites to Advance Daily Global Planetary Change Measurement
EarthDaily Analytics announced the successful launch of six EarthDaily Constellation satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission, confirming initial contact with satellites EDC-02 through EDC-07. The milestone significantly advances the company’s goal of delivering daily, consistent measurement of planetary change at a global scale. The launch, executed on May 3, 2026, delivered all six…
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SciTec Secures Deal to Advance Space Force Missile Defense Under Golden Dome
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, announced it received an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to support the nation’s emerging missile defense- architecture as part of the Space Based- Interceptor (SBI) program. This program was established under the Department of War to develop a space-based missile defense interceptor system…
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OroraTech Launches Greece’s Wildfire Monitoring Satellite System
OroraTech, the global leader in space-based wildfire intelligence, announced the successful launch and deployment of the Hellenic Fire System, four dedicated wildfire monitoring satellites for Greece, marking the world’s first national satellite system designed exclusively for wildfire detection and tracking. The satellites were launched with SpaceX via Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Developed for…
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Interlune Awarded $6.9 Million Contract from NASA for Lunar Resource Development
Interlune, a natural resources company, announced a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III project with NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Game Changing Development (GCD) program for a lunar resource development effort. The sole-source contract is for a firm-fixed-price of $6.9 million over the next 18 months to develop a payload suite that will…
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NGA Grants Vantor $70 Million Contract to Enhance GEOINT Platform
Vantor, the leader in unified spatial intelligence, has been awarded a $70 million Option Year 1 contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. Under this follow-on award, Vantor delivers and operates GEGD Pro, a secure, web-based geospatial intelligence platform that leverages Vantor’s Tensorglobe software suite. Designed…
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GITAI USA Selected for U S Space Force Interceptor Program
GITAI USA, a U.S.-headquartered space robotics and satellite platform company, announce that the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command has selected it for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) program. The selection follows a competitive evaluation process and positions GITAI among a limited number of companies developing space-based interceptor systems and associated satellite platforms for national security applications. GITAI…