The Space Foundation’s analysis shows a whopping 73 percent increase in the global space economy between 2009 and 2019: from 245.06 billion to 423.8 billion.
By Theresa HitchensNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
“I don’t see another obvious explanation other than it was a weapons test,” said Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation.
By Theresa Hitchens
SIA is hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will have only limited effects on the satellite industry, since it has been “generally deemed essential by governments.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Our nation shouldn’t rely on providers who take shortcuts or ignore security in their development and operations. As we grow more dependent on network capabilities we need to up our game,” says Andrew D’Uva, industry chair of the Commercial Space INFOSEC Working Group.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Army wants to do a tech demonstration in the southwestern desert – COVID permitting – of how the new weapons systems it’s developing can share data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Upfront investments are necessary to break the vicious cycle in which current DOD high-value assets are stuck” to increase space resiliency, the Aerospace Corp. study argues.
By Theresa Hitchens
The mobile TITAN satellite ground station is a critical node in Army plans for all-domain operations.
By Theresa Hitchens
A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
The Army’s eager to use NRO, NGA, and other agencies’ satellites to spot far targets for its new thousand-mile missiles, not to build its own, the deputy chief of staff for intelligence said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Our fully networked C3 [Command, Control, & Communications] will look completely different” from current satellites and terminals, said OSD’s Doug Schroeder.
By Theresa Hitchens
PTS is not a satellite per se, rather it is envisioned as a payload that could be carried by US military, commercial or even allied satellites.
By Theresa Hitchens
The jump in R&D funding reflects SDA’s ambitious plans to launch “dozens” of satellites by 2022 to create a skeleton architecture in Low Earth Orbit to provide communications between satellites and ships, aircraft and ground-based weapon systems; track advanced missile threats including low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles; and to support targeting of adversary mobile ground systems.
By Theresa Hitchens
NewSpace Networks will bid against Lockheed Martin for bankrupt Vector Launch’s GalacticSky software-defined satellite assets, says co-founder Shaun Coleman.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think maybe there is a mutual assured destruction in space,” Rep. Lamborn said, “where no one will go there because the consequences will be too severe.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Winning the future fight will require us to dominate space,” said Maj. Gen. John Pletcher, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for budget.
By Theresa Hitchens
