A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches a Capella Space satellite on Sept. 19, 2023. The rocket suffered an anomaly about 2.5 minutes into flight, resulting in the loss of the satellite. (Image credit: Rocket Lab) By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 9 November 2023 The company plans to return to flight
The Space Force is developing the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program as the ground system for the SBIRS and Next-Gen OPIR missile warning satellites. (Graphic: RTX) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 9 November 2023 The Space Force expects the multi-faceted Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE)
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 8 November 2023 The five-year agreement is for medium Earth orbit O3b satcom services WASHINGTON — The global satellite operator SES will provide services to the U.S. Defense Department under a five-year agreement worth up to $270 million, the company announced Nov. 8.
By Jon Gertner, Published by The New York Times Magazine, 8 November 2023 Inside the highly secretive military branch responsible for protecting American interests in a vulnerable new domain. What’s most concerning isn’t the swarm of satellites but the types. “We know that there are kinetic kill vehicles,” Lerch said
By Andrew Falle, Ewan Wright, Published by The Conversation, 7 November 2023 As the number of satellites in orbit increase, so will the possibilities of space debris. There are currently 8,000 satellites in orbit, but hundreds of thousands more are being proposed. In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning
LeoLabs’ Rendezvous and Proximity Dashboard shows one approach made by Cosmos-2562 to Resurs-P3 (left), eventually coming into proximity (right). For almost a year, the objects appeared to maneuver one to two times a week based on in-track distance history. Credit: LeoLabs By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 6 November 2023
Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia Published by Consortium News, 3 November 2023 The Pine Gap U.S. surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 31 October 2023 The goal of the accelerator is to bring industry, government and academia together to integrate SDA computer systems to "fully leverage" data from myriad sources across the Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, other government agencies, allies and commercial firms —
