Who runs Scotland’s space industry?

By Billy Briggs, Published by the Ferret, 8 May 2025 The latest frontier of Scotland’s industry may well be space, with significant investment being made in this emerging sector.  As part of our Who Runs Scotland series, we’ve been looking at this burgeoning industry and some of the organisations and

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State of the Space Force 2025

(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Audry Decker, Published by Defense One, 18 April 2025 As Trump envisions “our manifest destiny into the stars,” the Space Force is set to play a key role in America’s space ambitions. When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed

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Space Force’s rapid-launch Victus sats to push both acquisition and operational boundaries

Firefly’s Alpha rocket will launch the mysterious Victus Sol mission for the Space Force. (Firefly Aerospace / Trevor Mahlmann) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 16 April 2025 While the current focus on the TacRS program is space domain awareness, Col. Bryon McClain, SSC's head of Space Domain Awareness

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Musk and Bezos Get Their Billion-Dollar Federal Contracts After Sucking Up to Trump

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images By Amethyst Martinez, Publishd by The Daily Beast, 7 April 2025 The space race between the two billionaires continues. Billions of dollars in federal contracts have been awarded to Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’ companies, solidifying the ties between two of

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