NASA has announced the full deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s 70-foot sunshield. The five-layered sunshield, which launched on Dec. 25th aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency’s
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The U.S. Space Force is collaborating with academia under its University Partnership Program to achieve dominance in the space domain, protect U.S. space assets from adversarial threats, and ensure the stability of
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Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said SDA uses the spiral development model to deliver “good enough” capabilities to warfighters every two years. He
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for companies that can provide high-throughput satellite services to support the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office. CSCO needs contractor HTS capacity and broadband
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A top U.S. Southern Command official has revealed plans for a new southern space component aimed at improving the organization’s relationship with partner countries in the Americas, Air Force Magazine reported Tuesday.
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The third spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series is set to launch in early 2022 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket. The
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A mirror system and optical technology built by Ball Aerospace has launched aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is meant to detect light from the first stars and galaxies to exist. The Webb
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Northrop Grumman have demonstrated for the first time a sandwich tile that can convert solar power into radio frequency for a future space-based energy system.
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Space Systems Command, led by Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, is set for another reorganization that has been approved by Air Force Secretary and three-time Wash100 Award recipient Frank Kendall, Breaking Defense reported Monday.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected two multi-institute teams to research topics related to space logistics, mobility and domain awareness under the new Space University Research Initiative program. Around 32 researchers
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