Government/Military
March 27, 2024
Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched the new Texas Space Commission this week to improve the state’s position in the national space industry. Abbott also announced inaugural members of the commission’s board of directors and the Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium (TARSEC) executive committee during an event at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston…
March 27, 2024
The FCC dismissed SpaceX’s request to use certain mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum authorized to Globalstar and Dish in the Gen2 Starlink constellation, according to a March 26 FCC order. In February 2023, SpaceX filed a modification for its Gen2 Starlink constellation application, petitioning to introduce an MSS component that would use 1.6/2.4 GHz bands,…
March 26, 2024
GMV won a 78.4 million euro ($85 million) contract to lead the European Space Agency's (ESA) mission to develop a five-satellite constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). The contract includes the design and development of the payloads for the constellation, the launch services, the ground-segment-as-a-service (GSaaS), the development of test user…
March 26, 2024
More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service, U.S. Space Force, in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service, the U.S. Cyber Force, which would initially come under the Department of the Army. “In the U.S. military, an officer who had never fired a rifle would…