By Adrianna Nine, Published by ExtremeTech, 26 January 2022 The US Air Force’s Space Force has launched two new satellites. GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6, two long-awaited satellites built by Northrop Grumman, were dispatched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late last week. Their mission? Surveillance. The “GSSAP” in each name
By Brett Tingley, Published by The Drive, 5 January 2022 The previously classified Starfire Optical Range aids astronomers while enabling the Space Force to better detect and track small objects in space. Previously classified adaptive optics technologies enabled the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to capture an image of
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 Kit Klarenberg, Publishd by Russia Today, 19 November 2021 RAF Menwith Hill, America’s largest overseas spy base, located in the UK, is to be expanded, and for reasons we can only guess at – although they’re unlikely to be positive. A planning application by the UK’s Ministry of Defence
By Alice Pannier, Published by Techcrunch, 14 November 2021 The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Quantum information science has long languished in an academic corner of the tech sector. But recent advances mean that the sector has taken on
By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 9 November 2021 Munich, Germany (SPX) - Northrop Grumman and Airbus Defence and Space, together with seven industrial players, have established ASPAARO, the Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations. ASPAARO will bid to undertake the Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS)
By Lucas Ropek, Published by Gizmodo, 16 September 2021 Earlier this week, the Department of Justice revealed that three former U.S. intelligence operatives were facing federal charges in connection with their work for DarkMatter, a foreign cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates. The men, who formerly worked for
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 7 September 2021 DoD investments in small satellites to date are mostly in the realm of communications and remote sensing, says OUSDR&E's Doug Schroeder. UPDATED. WASHINGTON: The Defense Department has formed a new group to coordinate small satellite efforts across the department and
