Six senators have proposed a bipartisan bill that would direct the Federal Aviation Administration to solicit industry feedback and eliminate duplicative requirements to help streamline the application process for commercial space launches
MoreDerek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, wrote an article explaining whether industry’s reluctance to compete for fixed-price contracts affects SDA’s business model. In a LinkedIn article published Wednesday, he said
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The NOAA-21 satellite is now operational, joining the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite and NOAA-20 as part of the Joint Polar Satellite System. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that
MoreRob Wolborsky, chief engineer at Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, said the U.S. Navy is exploring commercial technologies such as 5G and proliferated low Earth orbit satellite constellations to help advance shipboard
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The U.S. Space Force officially assumed responsibility for the U.S. Army’s Joint Tactical Ground Station missile warning system mission on Sunday, Oct. 1. Space Delta 4 at Buckley Space Force Base in
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has begun requesting information from industry sources capable of developing a satellite constellation to acquire space-based images of the Earth’s land surface. The Landsat Next constellation will
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The Department of Defense has issued its space policy review and a strategy outlining measures to protect and defend on-orbit satellites of DOD and the Intelligence Community from adversarial threats. DOD said
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An ASRC Federal business has secured a spot on a potential $8 billion contract vehicle from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle, Data Networks will compete for awards
MoreThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed test deployment of the solar array installed on its fourth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series. The GOES-U solar array, which was built
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Satellite service provider Intelsat has concluded the assessment of an operational and data collection system for a novel space-based instrument. Designed to observe significant air pollutants across North America, the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of
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