Vulcan’s first Space Force launch to carry long-delayed experimental PNT satellite
Vulcan’s heaviest version, which will use six solid rocket motors, still awaits Space Force certification.
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How industry is lining up for big Golden Dome business
While big primes appear to be positioning themselves for leadership roles, Leidos CEO Tom Bell told reporters the company doesn’t need to be “Mr. Golden Dome.”
Army crafting a new space policy, moving out on counterspace
The Army’s emphasis currently is “on the counterspace piece for space control, electronic warfare, really doing counter-communications,” said Brig. Gen. Donald Brooks, deputy commanding general for operations at Army Space and Missile…
At missile defense conference, the first rule of Golden Dome is don’t talk about Golden Dome
The Space and Missile Defense Symposium organizer said the Pentagon asked them to shift discussion about the Golden Dome project to another event.
SPACECOM chief doubles down on need for on-orbit mobility
The Space Force, however, has been lukewarm on funding support for what it calls “Space Access, Mobility and Logistics.”
With Intelsat buy, SES targets European defense market
SES’s American arm, SES Space & Defense, was awarded a five-year “Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract” to provide the US Army with satellite communications services.
Space Force to launch ‘actual’ GMTI sats ‘in the next year’: General
Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, also said the service expects to complete an analysis of alternatives by this fall for a separate but related effort to track airborne targets f…
Senate confirms trio of nominees for Navy, Space Force, SOCOM
Navy gets submariner Adm. Daryl Caudle for CNO, Space Force gets Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton for vice chief of space ops and SOCOM gets JSOC’s current head, Vice Adm. Frank Bradley.
Draft Trump EO would loosen commercial space regs, citing national security links
The draft EO would eliminate, waive and/or loosen federal environmental protection reviews required for launch licenses, including for those from Space Force ranges.
Here’s the role that space-based interceptors will play in Golden Dome
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