Illustration of U.S. missile defense sensors. Credit: Missile Defense Agency By Sandra Erwin, PUblished by Space News, 7 June 2023 Under the new plan, Space Command can prioritize assets so they can also be used to track space debris and rival nations’ satellites WASHINGTON — In its new role overseeing
File Image: The Russian Iskander-M SRBM – Wikimedia Commons By Parth Satam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 2 June 2023 Two waves of missile strikes at Ukrainian air bases by Russia in a period of 24 hours have nullified Ukraine’s claimed success in being able to intercept them. On the
By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 24 May 2023 WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman said its design for next-generation missile warning satellites passed a key Space Force review. The company is under contract to build two Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar satellites that will provide coverage of the northern hemisphere, the
By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 18 May 2023 In a newly-released Prior Information Notice, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled its plans for a Missile Defence Research & Development Category Strategy. The forthcoming project is aimed at establishing a strong and effective defence against evolving missile
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 19 April 2023 "Our T1TL solution builds on our decades of end-to-end mission expertise." Northrop Grumman completed a critical design review of a Space Development Agency (SDA) communications satellite in only 13 months. As SpaceNews points out, that is a fraction of the
By Parth Satam, Published by the Eurasian Times, 8 April 2023 The US aims to overwhelm Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 500 communications, data transfer, and missile tracking satellites. The first batch of 10 satellites was launched on April 2. SDA director Derek M.
Officials unveil the new base sign at a renaming ceremony at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, April 6, 2023. From left to right, Col. Brian Capps, 821st Space Base Group commander, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, Greenlandic Minister Affairs, Business and Trade Vivian Motzfeldt, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom
By Lindsay Clark, Published by The Register, 4 April 2023 Agency asks for industry input into medium Earth orbit system The US Space Systems Command (SSC) wants input from techies and the aerospace industry as it maps out the development of a new satellite-based missile detection and tracking system. In
