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Space Force to start charging more spaceport fees this summer

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Space Force will start charging launch companies more to use its spaceports as soon as this summer, following a provision...

Missile defense interceptor competition enters critical design phase

Both teams competing to develop a new homeland missile defense interceptor for the Missile Defense Agency have entered the critical design phase with Northrop...

White House official calls for investment in satellite servicing market

ORLANDO, Fla. — A top National Space Council official urged U.S. agencies to start budgeting for on-orbit satellite refueling and servicing capabilities as a...

Satellite-services industry awaits critical demand signal from U.S. military

ORLANDO, Fla. — The emergent on-orbit servicing market faces a case of misaligned expectations. On one side, companies developing technologies to provide satellite maintenance,...

SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft on its way to the Space Station

SpaceX completed its second mission bound for the International Space Station this month. But unlike all previous missions targeting the orbiting outpost, this flight...

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch first of planned back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink missions

Update 5:34 p.m.: SpaceX pushed back the planned launch time of the Starlink 6-38 mission. SpaceX is preparing for a busy week to close out...

SpaceX launches first of planned back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink missions

Update 8:40 p.m.: The first Falcon 9 of the night lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX is preparing for a...

U.S. State Department Approves F-35 Sale To Greece

Greece might receive up to 40 F-35 jets for an estimated cost of 8.6B USD. The U.S. State Department has approved the Foreign Military Sale...

Space Force selects vendors for suborbital launch services

WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s Space Systems Command announced Jan. 26 that additional vendors have been selected for the Sounding Rocket Program-4. This is...

Space Force picks Boeing, Lockheed for narrowband SATCOM program

WASHINGTON — The Space Force selected Lockheed Martin and Boeing to design satellite prototypes for its Mobile User Objective System program, which provides secure...

Lockheed Martin, Boeing win contracts to design U.S. military narrowband communications satellites

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has awarded Lockheed Martin and Boeing $66 million contracts each to design a new narrowband communications satellite. The...

No more ‘must-wins’: Defense firms growing warier of fixed-price deals

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin chief executive Jim Taiclet offered a warning during a quarterly earnings call this week,The government, he said, is putting too...

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