By Jeff Froust, Published by SpaceNews, 30 March 2022 WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle company Virgin Orbit says it sees opportunities not just in satellite launch but also in hypersonics as it looks to increase its revenue. In its first financial results since going public in December after a merger
By Jen Judson, Published by DefenseNews, 29 March 2022 WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency’s $9.6 billion fiscal 2023 request seeks to expand regional and homeland defenses against increasingly complex and capable missile threats, according to budget documents released by the agency March 28. The MDA asked for $8.9 billion
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 15 March 2022 A $550 million congressional add-on in 2022 is only a down payment to kickstart the deployment of a 28-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit WASHINGTON — A $550 million increase to the Pentagon’s 2022 budget was directed by Congress to procure
By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 9 March 2022 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) WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 10 February 2022 On-board, or "edge," processing is key to SDA's plans to develop a satellite network that can gather data from multiple sensors on the ground, at sea and in space to provide operators with precise, near-real-time targeting information. WASHINGTON: A foundational
By Sakshi Tiwari, Publishd by Eurasian Times, 26 January 2022 China is reportedly developing and testing its hypersonic technology at a rapid pace. The communist nation created ripples across the world when it launched a “Fractional Orbital Bombardment System” to launch a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle around the world. In
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 12 January 2022 WASHINGTON: The missile warning and tracking “force design” developed by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) calls for satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) to provide backup to currently planned constellations, Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency (SDA)
By Protik Chowdhury,Published by Eurasian Times, 6 January 2022 New details on the US Air Force’s highly secretive Mayhem hypersonic air vehicle program have come to light. Reports suggest that it will provide a modular experimental design that can be configured to carry one of two different kinds of payloads for
