Quasar Satellite Technologies is planning to open a US office in 2024, “most likely in Colorado,” with the other option being in the Washington, DC area, CEO Phil Ridley told Breaking Defense.
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.
The Space Force, in essence, wants to move the 2018-conceived Unified Data Library from a card catalog system to a machine-to-machine search engine using artificial intelligence tools.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Big software developments fail,” said Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli. “You have to go to smaller systems.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The goal of the accelerator is to bring industry, government and academia together to integrate SDA computer systems to “fully leverage” data from myriad sources across the Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, other government agencies, allies and commercial firms — a seemingly unsolvable problem that has bedeviled the Pentagon for decades.
By Theresa Hitchens
While this may be the first CRADA’s between the two Indian space startups and the Space Force, neither company is a stranger to the US space market ecosystem.
By Theresa Hitchens
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The backbone for Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) will be a mesh network of small satellites in SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
By Breaking Defense
“It can’t just be a strategy with aspirational platitudes about how we’re going to work together,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said. “It has to have more tangible guidance, things that we can take action on.”
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 space operations chief wants systems that can gather “exquisite, high fidelity information about what’s going on” in geosynchronous Earth orbit “and beyond,” more sensors in the Southern Hemisphere to keep an eye on low Earth orbit and — critically — a better way to fuse data.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Each nation possesses unique advantages, technological capacities, and strategic geographic positions that, when combined, have the potential to significantly advance humanity’s understanding of what’s going on in space,” the paper says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The COMSPOC study included a look at risks from unannounced rendezvous and proximity operations — such as those being routinely performed by the Russian “inspector” satellite Luch/Olymp that have raised hackles at the Defense Department — and the risks to US military satellites cause by mis-plotting the trajectories of adversary birds.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Providing space operators with relevant, timely data can help to prevent operational surprise and support efforts to protect and defend space assets,” a recent report to Congress on Pentagon space policy and strategy says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“This mission highlights significant progress towards meeting emerging challenges in space,” said Lt. Col. MacKenzie Birchenough, materiel leader for SSC’s Space Safari office.
By Theresa Hitchens
As the Space Force prepares to launch highly classified space domain awareness satellites, China calls foul on purported close approaches to its sats by existing US birds.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Wing on Aug. 10-11 hosted the annual Vulcan Guard space exercise, that this year included personnel from US Space Command, the Brazilian military and all seven National Guard states conducting space operations.
By Theresa Hitchens
