By Peter Suclu, Published by the National Interest, 23 September 2021 Was it autonomous mastery? Here’s What You Need to Remember: "Up until the autonomous landing of the X-40A in 1998, no one had demonstrated that an unmanned space vehicle with such a low lift-to-drag ratio, and a high angle-of-attack landing
by Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 22 September 2021 GAO: 'Despite early steps to speed up development, the Next-Gen OPIR program faces significant technical and managerial challenges' WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is providing Congress overly optimistic projections about the schedule and cost of next-generation early warning satellites, the
By Walter Pincus, Published by The Cipher Brief, 14 September 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. Pincus spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 7 September, 2021 ManTech since 2010 has been the incumbent contractor for systems engineering and integration in support of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command launch enterprise WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force’s launch enterprise awarded ManTech a $476 million contract to provide systems
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 26 August 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. Space Force leaders said the service has made headway in implementing its vision to become the world’s first fully digital service, when asked at the 36th annual Space Symposium. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond
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By Karl Grossman, Published by CovertAction Magazine 25 August 2021 Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits; most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 20 August 2021 The push to declassify an existing space weapon is being spearheaded by Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. WASHINGTON: For months, top officials at the Defense Department have been working toward declassifying the existence
