Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 03, 2021
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch a cluster of experimental satellites known as STP-3, including a NASA laser communications spacecraft, into orbit Sunday morning from Florida. United Launch Alliance has scheduled liftoff of the Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window starting at 4:04 a.m. EST from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission was delayed for various re

Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Dec 06, 2021
With a video of the historic 1969 Apollo 11 launch shown on the nearly two-story screen behind him, Dr. Darren Raspa, the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site historian, welcomed guests and colleagues to the grand opening of the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate's Legacy Portal Mission Control exhibit, in a ceremony held November 15 at Kirtland AFB. "This project began more t

Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 06, 2021
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has approved the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Missiles and Defense Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) team's common software factory solution and its associated digital infrastructure following successful testing. With this accredited digital ecosystem in place, the program is set to seamlessly integrate, make critical decisions

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2021
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar here Dec. 6. LRDR is a multi-mission, multi-face radar with a wide field of view. Its massive arrays, each measuring 60 feet high by 60 feet wide, and advanced ga

Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 06, 2021
Top American generals have repeatedly expressed fears about the speed of development of the latest generation of military technologies in the main rival countries for the US - China and Russia - noting, to their own regret, the bureaucracy and slowness of the development of the latest weapons by the US. General David Thompson, Vice Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, stated t

Reston VA (SPX) Dec 06, 2021
SES Government Solutions has announced its new Common Operational Picture (COP) platform, Hydra, built exclusively to serve the U.S. Government and military. Managed and operated in-house, Hydra is a modular web-based monitoring and control system that provides end-to-end situational awareness in a single unified operational network platform. Hydra collects, normalizes, and organizes data

Alameda CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2021
Astra Space, Inc. has announced plans to deploy its first satellite in orbit for NASA in January 2022. The launch from Cape Canaveral will be conducted out of Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46) and will be Astra's first launch out of Cape Canaveral. "This historic launch site has been prepared for a new commercial launch partner in less than year, which is a tremendous milestone for our comb

Beijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2021
Galactic Energy, a carrier rocket maker in Beijing, has become the first private enterprise in China to have conducted two orbital missions that placed satellites in outer space. The company's CERES 1 Y2 rocket, the second of its kind, blasted off at 12:12 pm Tuesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gobi Desert and flew for about 14 minutes before deploying five

Long Beach CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2021
Rocket Lab USA has signed a deal with Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective to carry out three dedicated Electron launches. The first two missions are scheduled for lift-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in 2022, with a third to follow in 2023. Each mission will deploy a single StriX satellite, growing Synspective's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation developed to deliver

Herndon VA (SPX) Dec 08, 2021
BlackSky plans to add another two satellites to its constellation Wednesday with the Rocket Lab mission titled "A Data with Destiny." Satellites from the SpaceX mission Thursday began delivering revenue-generating insights for customers less than 24 hours following launch and increased constellation revisit rates to six consistent visits per day in key markets during daylight hours. "Black