By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 1 July 2021 Space Force is actively considering whether its future missile warning and tracking satellites should be stationed in a wider range of orbits than in the past to improve the network's accuracy and resiliency, an SMC official says. WASHINGTON: The Space
By Lee Roop, Published by Stars and Stripes, 30 June 2021 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Tribune News Service) — Scientific research under way in Huntsville to improve space weather predictions will help the U.S. Space Command manage future natural threats to vital satellite communications and also shows the technical expertise available in
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 29 June 2021 WASHINGTON: Space is becoming ever-more important for detecting and tracking “evolved” threats from both ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles, Vice Adm. Jon Hill, Missile Defense Agency director, said today. “One of the great values of space” is to “sensor architectures,”
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 28 May 2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force asked Congress Friday for $17.4 billion in its 2022 budget request, a bold 13 percent increase for the smallest service when overall military spending is expected to be nearly flat. The $2 billion increase is
By Ed Adamczyk, Published by Space War, 28 April 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - The Missile Defense Agency did not meet 2020 goals, with only 62% of deliveries and 22% of interceptor missile tests completed, a report on Wednesday said. While the Government Accountability Office noted that MDA "made progress"
By Sara Sirota and Ryan Grim, Published by The Intercept, 25 May 2021 Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now. Now that Jeff Bezos’s space flight company Blue Origin has
By UK Government, Published 24 May 2021 Satellites and rockets could launch from UK soil in 2022, with spaceports planned for Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. government paves the way for commercial space launches from UK soil with new regulationsplanned spaceport sites across Great Britain to create hundreds of jobs as
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 20 May 2021 "Now we're just really working out the details for the timing that that will happen, and how frankly how it will happen," Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, Army SMDC commander, says. WASHINGTON: The head of Army Space and Missile Defense Command
