By Evan Craighead, Published by Space War, 7 May 2021 Washington DC (Sputnik) - The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) called on the US Department of Defense to provide the US Congress with recommendations for a potential Space Force Reserve element. Presently, members of the National Guard are conducting
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 Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 5 May 2021 Long Beach CA (SPX) - Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's responsive space company, reports that its UK subsidiary, Virgin Orbit UK Ltd., has signed a new manufacturing agreement with AVS Added Value Solutions UK (AVS) to build the Transportable Ground Operating
By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 4 May 2021 A space-focused branch of the Guard would aim to give the Space Force “a surge-to-war capability” in times of conflict. The National Guard will soon deliver recommendations to the defense secretary on how to establish a space-focused component of the
By Mathieu Rabechault, Published by Space War, 27 April, 2021 Paris (AFP) - A year after collapsing into bankruptcy, satellite operator OneWeb has revived its goal of providing broadband satellite internet service after European operator Eutelsat said Tuesday it would invest $550 million in the project. Eutelsat's "roughly 24 percent"
By AFP Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 19 April, 2021 Wellington (AFP) - New Zealand said Monday it would not let the 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance dictate its dealings with its largest trading partner China, in the latest distancing from the US-led group's approach to tensions with Beijing. Foreign
By Jeremy Kuzmarov, Published by Covert Action Magazine, 19 April 2021 The Pentagon has awarded the defense giant Raytheon Technologies over $2.36 billion in government contracts since Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III’s confirmation on January 22nd. Austin was on Raytheon’s board of directors prior to his confirmation. [Source: twitter.com]
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
