Image: Iron Dome By Dave Lindorff, Published by Counter Punch, 26 March 2025 Impressed with the success of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense against a attack by Iranian missiles and drones, President Trump has ordered the US war department to begin research on developing what he calls a ”Golden Dome” defense system
An artist’s conception shows Gravitics’ Orbital Carrier with payloads ready for deployment. (Gravitics Illustration) By Alan Boyle, Published by Geek Wire, 26 March 2025 The U.S. Space Force has chosen Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics to build and fly an orbital carrier that could deliver maneuverable space vehicles to the final frontier
Air Force Art By Matthew Gault, Published by Gizmodo, 25 March 2025 The military wants to use rockets to move supplies around the world ‘lightning fast.’ The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 25 March 2025 WASHINGTON — Congress earmarked $40 million for commercial surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking services in the recently passed fiscal year 2025 continuing resolution spending bill. Col. Richard Kniseley, director of the Space Force’s Commercial Space Office, said the funding represents a vote
The Pentagon is basing its future space-based architecture on optical communications technology. Credit: Steven Puetzer/Getty Images By Vivienne Machi, Published by Aviation Week, 25 March 2025 Today’s satellites collect more data than can be efficiently transmitted via traditional radio-frequency methods. As governments and companies build constellations with hundreds or even
A SpaceX Falcon rocket lifted of from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) to begin the NROL-69 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 March 2025 WASHINGTON — A SpaceX
By Miles Jamison, Published by ExecutiveGov, 24 March 2025 The U.S. Space Force has awarded contracts with a cumulative value of $1.1 million to four space monitoring companies to test the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve program, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The selected contractors will provide space domain awareness data for the CASR program,
By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 21 March 2025 "That capability gap is significantly narrowed, and we've got to change the way we're looking at space, or that capability gap may reverse and not be in our favor anymore." The United States is approaching a turning point in space security,
