T.I. Weintraub, a more than two-decade aerospace and defense industry veteran, has been tapped to serve as chief growth officer at cloud-based space communications technology provider Atlas Space Operations. Weintraub joins the Michigan-headquartered company from BlueHalo, where he most recently served as director of business development for space and directed energy, Atlas said Tuesday. In […] More

Atlas Space Operations has raised $26 million in a round of Series B financing led by Mitsui & Co. and will use the investment to further advance its Ground Software as a Service business model and international growth initiatives. “This investment well capitalizes the company to accelerate growth in key areas of commercial and US […] More

Atlas Space Operations and space logistics company Aevum have agreed to collaborate on a U.S. Air Force-led  space lift mission to increase the Department of Defense’s threat awareness through orbital launch services.

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Atlas Space Operations has added nine new ground stations to its satellite communications network, providing a total of 13 ground stations.

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The Defense Innovation Unit has begun seeking proposals from industry sources capable of developing a hybrid architecture designed to integrate government and commercial networks to enable space-based communication capabilities. DIU said the second iteration of the Hybrid Space Architecture project will focus on four areas of interest: persistent sensing, resilient data transport, high-performance edge computing and data fusion.

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United Launch Alliance will now provide Amazon with launch services that would cover nearly 50 missions to send broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit for the latter’s Kuiper constellation. ULA said Tuesday its upcoming Vulcan Centaur two-stage heavy-lift vehicle will conduct 38 liftoff operations from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for the Amazon initiative […] More

L3Harris Technologies will continue to upgrade a system used to track space launches, debris and other space objects to help counter anti-satellite threats under a potential $50 million contract extension with the U.S. Space Force. The company said Thursday it will integrate government equipment and manage the deployment of applications for the Advanced Tracking and […] More

NASA has rescheduled the launch of the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 mission for Tuesday due to repair work on a faulty ground storage system at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Scrubbing the Monday liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket was intended to enable officials to verify fuel integrity […] More

The Federal Aviation Administration has come up with a project website to inform the public about the proposed plan of a Sierra Nevada subsidiary to use the Space Florida Shuttle Landing Facility in Titusville, Florida, for reentry operations of its Dream Chaser vehicle. FAA said Friday Dream Chaser is a reusable reentry spaceplane from Sierra […] More

The U.S. Space Force acquired signals from the Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 5 satellite about 36 minutes after it launched Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The SBIRS GEO-5 satellite, which transmitted signals to the Space Delta 4 operations team, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas […] More

United Launch Alliance has shipped its Atlas V vehicle to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of launching a Lockheed Martin-built satellite that will join a constellation of missile-warning spacecraft. An Atlas V 421 rocket will send the Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 5 satellite to orbit on behalf of the Space and Missile Systems Center, ULA said Thursday.

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Florida, the state that houses U.S. launch operations, hosted a total of 31 launches with SpaceX and United Launch Alliance in 2020, exhibiting a significant growth in liftoff records from previous years, Florida Today reported Friday.

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