Image: Lockheed Martin. By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 21 October 2025 Lockheed Martin is aiming to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of at least one space-based anti-missile interceptor design no later than 2028. Interceptors deployed in space have been billed as a key element of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome
Defense satellites and anti-satellite technology is coming to a head. (Image credit: Dragon Claws/Getty Images) By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 20 October 2025 "The Russians and the Chinese are demonstrating more sophisticated orbital maneuvering abilities. There's no denying that." Space-based shenanigans are increasing in Earth's orbit. Anti-satellite technologies (ASATs)
A notional image of one of the Space Development Agency's first transport layer satellites. (Lockheed Martin) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 15 October 2025 WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 15 launched 21 satellites to low Earth orbit for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development
Blue Origin’s New Glenn New Glenn’s second stage tank at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL., July 14, 2022. (Photo: Blue Origin) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 7 October 2025 The contract is a public-private partnership agreement awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command WASHINGTON
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Sept. 28, 2024. (U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Spencer Contreras) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 4 October 2025 SpaceX was assigned five of seven National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 missions.
GSSAP space domain awareness satellite (Air Force Space Command archive) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 2 October 2025 The plan is to award two vendors 24-month Direct to Phase II SBIR grants worth $3M each to demo low-cost, low-weight radars on Space Force satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.
Rendering of Orbit Fab’s refueling service architecture consists of propellant depots in various orbits, and shuttles that will deliver fuel from those depots to client spacecraft. Credit: Orbit Fab By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 September 2025 Concepts like ‘dynamic space operations’ and ‘sustained space maneuver’ refer not
Illustration of in-space refueling of satellites. Credit: Orbit Fab By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 September 2025 Concepts like ‘dynamic space operations’ and ‘sustained space maneuver’ refer not only to extending the life of satellites but also to allowing them to ‘take action’ NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — U.S.
