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The project, called Sirb in a reference to the Arabic term for flock of birds, is to eventually put three UAE-made synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites into low Earth orbit.
SDA originally had hoped to begin launching the Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer constellations for its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture stationed in low Earth orbit in September 2024.
However, several industry sources said that their companies have not been blocked by NRO from taking pictures over Ukraine.
Many of the sensors contributed by the 15 EU SST participating states are military assets, and the European Defence Fund also is being tapped to help foster commercial innovation in the space situational awareness domain.
Kelly Hammett, director of the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, said his organization risks being “inordinately impacted” by workforce reductions underway with the Trump administration.
The goal of the collaborative effort was to show that commercial data can help close the time lag between when a satellite is released into orbit from a rocket to when the Space Force can reliably track it and put the trajectory coordinates into the mi…
Representatives of US remote sensing firms remain extremely nervous about possible roadblocks to future plans that require either new licenses or license modifications due to the personnel downsizing resulting from the efforts of Elon Musk’s DOGE…
Elsewhere, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said his top priority is “space control,” a term that for many years was verboten at the Pentagon.
License holders are receiving emails saying that all correspondence with the Commercial Remote Sensing for Regulatory Affairs is now being routed to the NOAA Office of General Council as no “senior personnel remain in the office,” according…
The Space Development Agency “has taken steps to develop laser communications technology but has not yet fully demonstrated it in space,” finds a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.