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SpaceX launches Space Force weather satellite designed to take over for a program with roots to the 1960s

SpaceX launched a military weather satellite designed to replace aging satellites from a program dating back to the 1960s. The United States Space Force-62...

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BAE Systems wins approval for Ball Aerospace acquisition

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — BAE Systems will complete its $5.5 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace in days after securing regulatory approvals for the deal. The companies...

Virtual Event – Not Invisible Anymore: How satellites monitor atmospheric methane

Coming out of the United Nations climate change conference, methane is in the spotlight. International experts see cutting methane emissions as a key to...

Seven questions with BAE Systems’ US chief executive

WASHINGTON — The war in Ukraine has been fought with two sets of equipment.On one end are the systems that may define the future...

NASA Prepares Deep Space Mission—Why AI Will Play Important Role – Decrypt

As the new space race ramps up and humanity looks to deep space and potentially life as an interstellar species, the United States National...

Ball, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire claim NOAA contracts

SAN FRANCISCO – Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global won contracts, announced Aug. 31, to design microwave sounders for the...

Space Development Agency shaking up how the military buys satellites

The Pentagon, for decades, has spent the bulk of its massive space budget on traditional geostationary satellites. The four-year-old Space Development Agency (SDA)...

Fixed-price satellite contracts earn high grades in Space Force report card

WASHINGTON — Military satellites acquired under fixed-price contracts get high praise in a report submitted to Congress by the Department of the Air Force....

NGA plans new procurement of commercial Earth monitoring services

ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is planning a new procurement of commercial services to monitor activities from space.  “We’re preparing for commercial...

NASA air quality sensor ready for launch with Intelsat satellite

A $210 million NASA mission to improve air pollution monitoring over North America is set to launch Friday with an Intelsat communications satellite blasting...

U.S. military begins launching satellites to counter hypersonic missile threat

The first 10 spacecraft for a planned U.S. military mega-constellation launched from California Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting in place the...

First launch for Pentagon’s own mega-constellation set for Thursday

The U.S. military’s Space Development Agency, established in 2019 to fast-track new national security capabilities in orbit, plans to launch the first 10 satellites...

Secretive military space agency stepping out of the shadows

When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a national security mission to geostationary Earth orbit Jan. 15, the Space Force revealed that three of the...

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