By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 27 May 2021 Private industry is launching at a pace with which the military’s space-surveillance system can’t keep up. Now lawmakers say the Commerce Department’s fix is running late. It’s been nearly three years since the U.S. Commerce Department was ordered to start
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
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Spacenews, 7 May 2021 Rep. Betty McCollum: 'Too often over the past two decades, space acquisition programs have been delivered late and over budget.' WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has moved quickly to organize its operational units since it was established 16 months ago.
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 19 April 2021 WASHINGTON: DARPA’s effort to develop nuclear ‘engines’ for far-roving satellites also hopes to demonstrate the capability to keep “timely” tabs on spacecraft operating near the Moon, says program manager Maj. Nathan Greiner. While cislunar surveillance doesn’t require nuclear-propulsion, such a
by Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, April 5 2021 Numerica won a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research award and later received an additional $2.25 million to mature the technology WASHINGTON — Numerica, a company that operates a network of ground-based telescopes to track objects in deep space, is deploying new
by Cassandra Sheer, Published by Space War, 2 April, 2021 Canberra, Australia (SPX) - As the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) celebrated 100 years with a spectacular and well-attended flyover in Canberra yesterday, many eyes were lifted to the skies. But RAAF's ambitions go even higher, as its motto "through
by Christen Mccurdy, Published by Spacewar, 11 March 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - The Air Force announced Thursday that it has named First Air Force as the future air component to U.S. Space Command. "The U.S. Air Force is a critical contributor to the U.S. Space Command mission as evidenced
An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) by Nathan Strout, published by C4ISRNET, 10 March 2021 WASHINGTON — As it prepares to
