By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 7 May 2021 Washington DC (SPX) - Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb have been selected by the US Air Force Research Lab to demonstrate managed LEO satellite communications (SATCOM) services to connect the Arctic region to sites around the globe. Under the agreement,
By Theresa Hitchins,Published by Breaking Defense, 23 March 2021 It's sort of like we're exclusively dating. We agreed to not see other people right now but we haven't committed to anything else yet," explained one Lockheed Martin official. WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin has joined forces with startup Omnispace to explore an
A rocket’s-eye view shows a stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites just before orbital deployment. (SpaceX Photo) by Alan Boyle, published by GeekWire, 11 March 2021 SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb say their satellite mega-constellations will make broadband internet goodness available to billions of people around the world who are unserved or
An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) by Nathan Strout, published by C4ISRNET, 10 March 2021 WASHINGTON — As it prepares to
by Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 5 March 2021 Washington DC (AFNS) - Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa hosted a joint, multi-national Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control demonstration in February. The USAFE-AFAFRICA-led demonstration, which took place in the Baltic Sea region, incorporated
Gaofen-4 EO Series satellite. By Staff Writers, Published in SpaceDaily, 2 March 2021 Beijing (XNA) - China's satellite application system has made great progress in 2020, with more than 300 satellites in orbit for various applications, according to a recent report released by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
By Brandi Vncent, Published by Defense One, 23 February, 2021 The U.S. military moved to explore next-generation networking capabilities and tools that could advance how it moves vast volumes of data on and beyond planet Earth. Space Force officials and others in the Air Force office responsible for enterprise data
An illustration of a laser infrared crosslink on a CubeSat NASA By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 18 February, 2021 The Pentagon has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of communications satellites in the years ahead. But getting them to talk to one another isn’t easy. Satellites that use lasers
