Government/Military

Momentus has made a concrete step forward with a after a turbulent few months dealing with U.S. national security concerns with the business. The in-space transportation company announced Wednesday that it has signed a National Security Agreement (NSA) with the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of the Treasury on behalf of the Committee on Foreign...

GMV has won two new key European Defence Agency (EDA) contracts, for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The company announced June 2 that it will work on two projects, SAFETERM and Artificial Intelligence in Guidance, Navigation and Control for Aerial Applications (AI-GNCAIR). AI-GNCAIR studies the take-up of Artificial Intelligence in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) for...

The White House has requested record funding for NASA in fiscal year 2022 of $24.8 billion to fund priorities like the Artemis lunar program and research to fight climate change. This is a 6.6% increase over $23.3 billion in funding in fiscal year 2021.  NASA released its budget request on May 28, requesting that over...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF), which became an independent military service in December, 2019, is requesting $11.3 billion for research and development in the service’s fiscal 2022 budget — an $800 million increase from the fiscal 2021 enacted amount — and about $2.8 billion in procurement, a $456 million increase over fiscal 2021. The USSF...

U.S. Defense Department agencies are working with a who’s-who of military contractors, commercial satellite operators, and technology companies to finally demonstrate the feasibility of a proliferated constellation of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The concept of using hundreds of small satellites spread out across that orbit to perform communications, missile warning, and other military missions,...

Viasat continues its opposition against SpaceX’s Starlink constellation on environmental grounds, and said in its latest filing to the FCC that if the commission does not stay its approval of SpaceX’s Starlink altitude change, Viasat intends to seek a stay from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  The issue in...

The U.S. Department of Defense has signed an additional order from SES Government Services for satellite services from the O3b constellation. The 11.8 million task order is part of a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) worth $516.7 million. This is the 15th task order for this agreement.  SES designed, developed, and fielded an O3b Medium-Earth Orbit...

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft have demonstrated satellite-to-cloud data processing in recent tests for the U.S. Department of Defense, that also involved Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.  In the tests, announced by Ball Aerospace on Wednesday, simulated data from Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) was pushed to Microsoft’s Azure cloud where it was processed using Ball-developed event-driven...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a missile warning satellite called the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) Flight 5 on Tuesday for the U.S. Space Force. A ULA Atlas V rocket in the 421 configuration took off at 1:37 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...

KBR has won a new contract worth $51.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deploy an antenna network that will monitor space weather. Under the contract, KBR will build and maintain an antenna network that sends and receives data from the Space Weather Follow-On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory and its ground segment. ...