Blue Origin on track for NSSL certification after second successful New Glenn launch
Blue Origin also was able to stick the landing of New Glenn’s reusable first stage, becoming only the second company after SpaceX to do.
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France announces almost $5B in new military space funding
Increased focus on defense is one of five pillars in a new French national space strategy announced by President Emmanuel Macron today.
Golden Dome SBIs will need to be defended from adversary attack: Experts
The satellites will need to be defended “not only from adversary kinetic or local orbital issues, but also from cyber attacks, electronic jamming and laser attacks,” said Patrick Binning, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of E…
Funding for SDA’s next missile tracking contracts diverted to troop payments: Sources
“When the funding will be authorized, given the shutdown and all the fun there, is a question mark,” one industry source told Breaking Defense.
Countering missile threats with enhanced warning and tracking payloads
[Sponsored] Missile speed, maneuverability, and destructive power requires more capable payloads for accelerated kill chain timelines.
US slams ‘discriminatory’ draft EU space law as imperiling NATO cooperation
The State Department’s damning critique argues that, if enacted, the draft law would imperil cooperation on “space weather, remote sensing, space exploration, spaceflight safety, space debris mitigation and remediation, [and] communications…
From on-orbit to launch, Space Force needs more focus on dynamic space operations
Building dynamic space operations concepts will be necessary to force “flexibility,” and provide capabilities for “maneuver and surprise” on orbit, the new report by the Mitchell Institute says.
Lanteris, formerly a Maxar company, to be acquired by Intuitive Machines
The move widens Intuitive Machine’s past focus on the Moon to the space market closer to Earth.
In historic shift, ESA poised to take on defense role
Since its founding 50 years ago, the European Space Agency has shunned involvement in military space activities.
US nuclear arsenal currently safe, reliable: STRATCOM nominee
Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump’s announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent memory.