By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 15 February 2023 Congress directed DoD and the director of national intelligence to “make publicly available a strategy regarding defending and protecting on-orbit satellites” WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s space policy office is drafting a congressionally mandated report explaining how the U.S. will defend
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 14 February 2023 Maxar will be able to task Umbra’s satellites and integrate synthetic aperture radar data into its portfolio of Earth Intelligence products WASHINGTON — Maxar has signed a contract with satellite imagery startup Umbra to get dedicated access to the company’s radar
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 14 February 2023 The $4.5 million SBIR Phase 3 contract has $6 million option for an on-orbit demonstration WASHINGTON – Astranis Space Technologies won a $4.5 million contract to integrate a U.S. military communications waveform on one of the company’s satellite communications payloads, the
By Matthew Jenkins, Published by The Space Review, 13 February 2023 In the early days of airpower, foresighted theorists like Billy Mitchell petitioned hard to demonstrate the value that airpower could bring to the warfighting abilities of the United States. Ardently campaigning, Mitchell got permission from Congress to illustrate this
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 10 February 2023 TAMPA, Fla. — Inmarsat says it is still considering deploying a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of its own despite comments to the contrary by one of its executives this week. Speaking Feb. 8 at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View,
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 9 February 2023 The new technology will help ESA quickly remove satellites from orbit to tackle the growing space debris problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully deployed a braking sail designed to deorbit a small satellite, according to a release. The sail
By Sndra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 8 February 2023 There is “natural latency” in the procurement system that is going to slow down adoption of commercial technologies WASHINGTON — Top leaders of the Defense Department and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called for greater adoption of commercial space technologies and
Published by MENAFN - Asia Times, 6 February 2023 China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) had been selected to build a new ground station in Antarctica to serve China's National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS). Such news, reported on February 2, might have ordinarily set off alarm bells in
