EXCLUSIVE: Derek Tournear reinstated as Space Development Agency director
Tournear was placed on administrative leave from his role on Jan. 16.
Space Force
Space Force picks up pace of on-orbit refueling experiments
Space Systems Command is moving out with a trio of projects — contracting with Northrop Grumman for two separate experiments, and with Astroscale US for the first on-orbit refueling operation involving a military satellite.
Space Force takes ownership of first Meadowlands satellite jammer
The program was designed to both to increase mobility and improve the jamming capabilities of the Space Force’s legacy Counter Communications System, to include providing multi-frequency jamming in S-band and X-band.
Contracts for SSC’s next iteration of MEO missile tracking satellites delayed
“Unfortunately, we were, we were slowed down a bit by uncertainty in our budget,” said SSC’s Col. Rob Davis, delaying awards for Epoch 2 of the Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking — MEO program by about three months.
EXCLUSIVE: NGA awards new Luno A task order for commercial imagery analysis
NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth confirmed that the agency and the Space Force are working on a memorandum of agreement that will set “procedures” to ensure that they don’t duplicate commercial imagery products.
Orbital power: Shaping national security from space
[Sponsored] Northrop Grumman is one of the only companies with expertise and capability to design, build and operate systems across an array of orbits.
New Space Force ‘Orbital Watch’ initiative to share threat info with commercial operators
“It’s a way for them to understand what the threat is, but also they will have the ability to reach back to the government if they actually see something. So, we’re trying to have a give-and-take discussion,” Col. Richard Knisel…
Time for Space Force to ‘clearly say’ it needs ‘weapons in space’: SPACECOM head
“The US and France recently conducted our first ever bilateral rendezvous and proximity operation to demonstrate combined capabilities in space in the vicinity of a strategic competitor spacecraft,” SPACECOM head Gen. Stephen Whiting said t…
SDA opens contest for 54 ‘Tranche 3’ missile tracking satellites
According to the formal solicitation posted on SAM.gov, SDA is looking to make three awards for 18 satellites each.
‘Hell of a body blow:’ Ukraine shift may stir market headwinds for US SAR-sat operators
“Going back to pre-Ukraine supplemental procurement levels would see the USG buying only a small fraction of the US commercial SAR capacity available; hardly enough to support combat operations or sustain a healthy US industrial base,” said…