Government/Military

Rocket Lab will design two Photon spacecraft for a NASA scientific mission to Mars, the company announced June 15.  The mission dubbed ESCAPADE — Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers...

The group of G7 nations has pledged to take action on space debris as part of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in the United Kingdom.  Delegates from G7 nations — Canada,...

Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across the Middle East and beyond, according...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...