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DOD official outlines US military space strategy
Oct 11, 2020 (DOD)
Justin T. Johnson, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, discussed that strategy at a virtual Heritage Foundation event. The first line...
USTRANSCOM announces the next frontier for logistics in space
Oct 11, 2020 (SPX)
Speaking at the virtual meeting from the command's headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, on Oct. 7, Lyons told the audience about USTRANSCOM's partner...
New strategic sites monitoring solution developed by Airbus and Earthcube
Oct 11, 2020 (SPX)
The new "Defence Site Monitoring" solution combines Earthcube's expertise in the automatic identification of objects with high-resolution images from Airbus' 50...
AFRL satellite program preparing future workforce
Oct 08, 2020 (AFNS)
In 1999, the first year of the program, 10 universities participated. Over the years, that number has tripled, and is now being managed by one of its graduates,...
BlackSky's latest satellites have completed commissioning and entered into commercial operation
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
These latest two satellites launched in August 2020 and successfully achieved first images within 58 hours of operation. The satellites have been delivering cus...
Air Force to launch space fundamentals course in January
Oct 06, 2020 (UPI)
"Today, here in this building, a board is selecting the first class of space professionals to attend our new space test fundamentals course," said Maj. Gen. Chr...
First ever Vice CSO joins US Space Force
Oct 05, 2020 (AFNS)
During the ceremony, U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John "Jay" Raymond administered the oath of office, transferring Thompson from the Air Forc...
U.S. Army, Air Force unite in Joint All-Domain Control and Command structure
Oct 02, 2020 (UPI)
Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. agreed to establish Combined Joint All-Domain Command and C...
'Long Way Off': US Space Force Will Launch Humans Into Orbit 'At Some Point'
Oct 01, 2020 (Sputnik)
"At some point, yes, we will be putting humans into space," Maj. Gen. John Shaw, head of the Combined Force Space Component Command at US Space Command, said Tu...
US Army to leverage BlackSky's satellites for tactical GEOINT Program
Sep 30, 2020 (SPX)
In addition, the company also announced it has conducted the preliminary design review of its Gen-3 satellite design for the U.S. Army Tactical GEOINT (TACGEO) ...
United Launch Alliance postpones spy satellite launch again
Sep 29, 2020 (SPX)
The company's powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket had been scheduled to carry the satellite aloft at 12:02 a.m. EDT Tuesday. ULA set a new new launch time for 11:58 ...
United Launch Alliance to try again to launch spy satellite
Sep 28, 2020 (UPI)
The company's powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to carry the satellite aloft at 12:02 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The rocket is a triple-core launcher that prod...
BlackSky to upgrade satellite imaging tech for DoD
Sep 24, 2020 (UPI)
BlackSky, already a major provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery for the Pentagon, said its Gen-3 satellite archi...
Space Force, NASA announce new collaboration agreement
Sep 22, 2020 (UPI)
The agreement, announced Tuesday during a Mitchell Institute virtual event, also commits the two agencies to collaboration in areas that include human spaceflig...
US Forces need to prevent space-launched attacks on military assets
Sep 18, 2020 (Sputnik)
"[US space-based military assets must] be able to disrupt adversaries' attempts to disrupt terrestrial forces through their own space forces," Dickey told a pan...
Northrop Grumman receives award for Evolved Strategic SATCOM Program
Sep 18, 2020 (SPX)
"Northrop Grumman looks forward to building on more than 40 years of successfully delivering protected satellite communications solutions to our customers," sai...
Veritone awarded subcontracts under US Air Force program to enhance satellite imagery analysis
Sep 18, 2020 (SPX)
AFWERX, the Air Force's innovation unit, awarded a Phase II contract under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to prime contractor alYnmnt. Ve...
UK's Air Chief warns arms race in space could end in disaster
Sep 17, 2020 (Sputnik)
British Air Force Chief Marshall Mike Wigston has said that space is now a "contested war-fighting domain", warning that the United Kingdom can no longer ignore...
Open Architecture Management Office lays foundation for streamlined software integration
Sep 17, 2020 (AFNS)
Organized under the Open Architecture Management Office's (OAMO) OpenAirKube Project, the four teams-including software engineers from Northrop Grumman, Lockhee...
Driven by 'a tectonic shift in warfare' Raymond describes Space Force's achievements and future
Sep 16, 2020 (AFNS)
Noting "we are on the cusp of a tectonic shift in warfare," Raymond said during his keynote address on the second day of the Air Force Association's 2020 Air, S...
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