Kayhan Space is providing its baseline collision avoidance service, Pathfinder Essentials, for free “to keep space safe,” said company co-founder Araz Feyzi.
By Theresa HitchensModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Speaking with Breaking Defense and Defense One on Tuesday, SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson noted the importance of space “governance,” including “norms of responsible behavior,” and the “need to better preserve” the space environment.
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The Commerce Department doesn’t simply want to replicate what DoD does now in providing space situational awareness data to industry, but go beyond to provide “a technologically superior product,” said Richard DalBello, head of DoC’s Commercial Space Office.
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“We need to address space debris so that space is sustainable and remains a working environment,” Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, assistant director for space policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), said today.
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“It’s a new and encouraging step in the right direction in terms of space domain awareness and a welcome collaboration within the industry,” said Denis Bensousan, of London-based insurance firm Beazley.
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“Orbital debris remediation is one of the main areas where the US is falling behind other countries, and this bill would help put America back in a leadership position on making space more sustainable for all to use,” enthused Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden.
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Such storms happen periodically as the sun’s activity waxes and wanes, and this particular round is not expected to be catastrophic. That said, there could be “moderate” impacts on Earth.
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Millennium Space Systems is delivering on critical missile tracking constellation
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
The “National Orbital Debris Implementation Plan” issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy assigns DoD the lead for some 17 tasks.
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“Money’s going into space. There’s a lot of opportunity for us to push into new areas leveraging our expertise,” said David Ray, who leads SAIC’s national security Space Business Unit.
By Theresa Hitchens The Office of Space Commerce, in part, is trying to define the scope of what “basic” services it will provide for free, and what else it might do for a fee.
By Theresa Hitchens The MoA will be followed by a set of annexes that include how the Defense Department will share funds, personnel and/or technology to help the Office of Space Commerce stand up a civil structure for space situational awareness (SSA).
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“Magdrive’s future is American, 100%,” said Mark Stokes, CEO of the Oxford, England-based startup.
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Until now, no US administration was willing to do anything formal, even if only making a public pledge, that would tie the military’s hands in any way regarding the use of ASATs.
By Theresa Hitchens Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its “old clunker” SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
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