By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 11 December 2021 Parsons won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 award for a 'Blackjack Prototype Ground Operations Center' WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Parsons a $10.8 million contract to prototype a ground operations center for the agency’s
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 8 December 2021 WASHINGTON: Space Force today launched two experimental satellites carrying payloads designed to detect nuclear explosions, keep tabs on space objects, monitor the weather and experiment with laser communications, in addition to some other classified capabilities. The mission, dubbed Space Test
By Justin Katz, Published by Breaking Defense, 7 December 2021 WASHINGTON: The Missile Defense Agency today announced it had finished construction and started initial fielding on a key radar program that, once operational, will play an integral role in protecting the homeland from ballistic missiles. The Long Range Discrimination Radar,
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNet, 7 December 2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force launched a host of experimental payloads into orbit along with a NASA satellite Dec. 7 as part of the Space Test Program. Nine Space Force payloads selected by the Defense Department’s Space Experiment Review Board
By Vivienne Machi, Published by Defense Daily, 20 February 2020 The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has released a request for information (RFI) and industry day announcement related to a future program to build a new deep space radar system that could be worth nearly $1 billion over the
By Scott Yunker, Published by The Garden Island, 25 November 2021 BARKING SANDS — A Hawai‘i Air National Guard unit with ties to Space Force is looking to fill its ranks. Currently one year into its tenancy at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kaua‘i Westside, the group of 38
By Vladimir Kozin, Published by World Beyond War, 22 November 2021 On November 15, 2021, the Russian Ministry of Defense carried out the successful destruction of the discontinued and decommissioned national spacecraft named “Tselina-D”, which was put into orbit back in 1982. The head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei
By Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 18 November 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - On Monday, State Department spokesman Ned Price accused Russia of "recklessly" carrying out a destructive satellite test using an anti-satellite missile against a defunct Soviet satellite. Washington claims the test generated "over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital
