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“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…
According to the formal solicitation posted on SAM.gov, SDA is looking to make three awards for 18 satellites each.
“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…
A similar agreement is in an early stage with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the head of the Space Force’s Commercial Space Office told Breaking Defense.
While the number of launches contracted to Blue Origin is small, the award represents a vote of confidence for the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.
“Space is a warfighting domain, not a collection of supporting activities. In conflict, space will be a contested environment. We are the military Service dedicated to fighting in it,” Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman writes in a forw…
“[W]e restrain ourselves from doing what is needful to avoid creating improper perceptions of ‘weaponizing space.’ In reality, space has been weaponized for at least two decades, and our slowness to absorb that reality has held back o…
The report finds that Russia has been increasingly successful at blocking Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starlink communications constellation, citing media reports in December 2024 about a new system specifically targeting Starlink called Kalin…
Both companies were awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contracts under the service’s National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1.
The shift was recommended by the Space Force in order to protect the service’s high-priority efforts, sources told Breaking Defense.