By Paul Brinkmann, Published by Space War, 17 May 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - United Launch Alliance postponed the launch of a missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Monday afternoon. Liftoff of the Atlas V rocket had been planned at 1:35 p.m. EDT from Complex 41
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 17 May 2021 The new SBIRS satellite, called SBIRS GEO 5, will be "the most advanced missile warning satellite" on orbit, said Lt. Col. Ryan Laughton, SMC's program manager. WASHINGTON: The Space Force is set to launch “the most advanced missile warning satellite”
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 14 May 2021 WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency will deorbit two experimental missile warning satellites in the next couple years, the director announced this week. Initially launched in 2009 with an expected lifespan of just two years, the two satellites that make up
By Fred Kaplan, Published by Slate, 13 May 2021 It’s astonishingly successful. That doesn’t mean it would work for America. Some U.S. officials are pointing to Monday night’s success of Israel’s Iron Dome defenses—which shot down the vast majority of the hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza by Hamas, limiting
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 8 May 2021 WASHINGTON — One of the top lawmakers in charge of the defense budget raised doubts Friday about whether the U.S. Space Force has lived up to its promise to reform the way it purchases space systems. While the nascent service has
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Spacenews, 7 May 2021 Rep. Betty McCollum: 'Too often over the past two decades, space acquisition programs have been delivered late and over budget.' WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has moved quickly to organize its operational units since it was established 16 months ago.
By Anthony Capaccio, Published by Bloomberg, 27 April 2021 The Pentagon plans to spend almost $18 billion to develop, produce and support its new interceptor to stop incoming nuclear missiles from North Korea or Iran, the first major defense procurement award of the Biden administration, according to newly released figures.
By Amanda Miller, Published by Air Force Magazine, 16 April 2021 The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all
