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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Read about new advancements in space technologies used by top defense and intelligence agencies. This section focuses on satellite communications, launch services, space exploration and geospatial intelligence.
SpaceX has sent a new set of 53 satellites to low-Earth orbit for its Starlink constellation that is established to deliver global broadband internet service to underserved areas, ABC News reported Sunday. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and positioned the additional Starlink internet satellites into orbit […] More
Seven startups each won $90,000 in awards to develop technologies that can support small satellite science missions for NASA. The space agency said Saturday it held a two-round competition to select the winners from a pool of 44 participants in the Entrepreneur’s Challenge. The competition sought sensors, electronic systems and autonomous detection technologies for smallsats; […] More
A top avionics company official has cited lack of space industry investment as one of the causes of supply chain challenges and said the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated existing industry issues and intensified the impact of supply chain shocks, SpaceNews reported Sunday. “Relative to other industries, there’s a massive underinvestment in the supply chain… The supply […] More
Ball Aerospace has shipped a new observatory spacecraft to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for an upcoming NASA mission that will measure cosmic X-ray polarization while in orbit. The company said Wednesday it built the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer under a collaboration with NASA and the Italian Space Agency. IXPE will launch in December from Kennedy Space […] More
A sensor satellite technology Northrop Grumman is developing for the Missile Defense Agency completed a key design assessment phase. The critical design review of the company’s prototype Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor offered a technical approach for how the system will work to track adversarial missile launches from ground, naval or aerial platforms, Northrop […] More
Space Systems Command has completed the critical design review of a new Lockheed Martin-made infrared-based satellite intended for use in geosynchronous Earth orbit. SSC said Tuesday it held the Block 0 GEO system CDR of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program from Oct. 26 to 28. Lockheed designed Next-Gen OPIR to globally deliver missile warning […] More
Capella Space is looking to demonstrate satellite interoperability with the Space Development Agency‘s new space architecture through a laser communications technology. Capella said Tuesday it will attempt to achieve optical inter-satellite link compatibility between its commercial synthetic aperture radar satellites and the National Defense Space Architecture. The company’s new SAR offering will use technology designed […] More
Satellite operators Intelsat and OneWeb, in collaboration with Linchpin Solutions, have performed a demonstration of a global multi-orbit satellite communications system designed to offer soldiers high-throughput connectivity in contested electronic warfare environments. The companies presented to Department of Defense representatives the system’s ability to switch data transport between geostationary orbit and low Earth orbit constellations […] More
SpaceX‘s Falcon Heavy rocket will launch a classified U.S. Space Force mission in 2022 under an existing $332 million contract for the second phase of the National Security Space Launch Program, Space News reported Sunday. A Space Systems Command spokesperson said the USSF-67 national security mission is scheduled to take off on the SpaceX rocket […] More
The U.S. Space Force plans to release requests for proposals for commercial satellite communications services and equipment starting next month and award up to $2.3 billion worth of comsatcom contracts in 2022 and 2023, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Future comsatcom acquisitions cover four service areas: COMSATCOM Transponded Capacity; COMSATCOM Subscription Services; Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions; […] More
The Space Development Agency has issued a new solicitation for industry proposals to design and build satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer and will use other transaction authority as a contracting mechanism for the satellite procurement effort, SpaceNews reported Thursday. SDA issued the initial solicitation for the Tranche […] More
BigBear.ai has partnered with Redwire for the development of space cyber range capabilities for the Space Cyber Resiliency through Evaluation and Security Testing initiative known as SpaceCREST. Under the memorandum of understanding, the two companies will use simulation, emulation and in-the-loop hardware to establish a realistic test environment and provide SpaceCREST with a space-based systems cybersecurity […] More
