In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Heather Pringle, a retired Major General of the US Air Force who is now the CEO of the […]

China carried out separate Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches this week, adding new batches of satellites to the country’s megaconstellation projects.

The Japan-Australia defense partnership that took another step forward in Tokyo in early April is not merely a deepening friendship between two U.S. allies. It is the most advanced example of a new model emerging in the Indo-Pacific: middle powers building autonomous defense industrial linkages designed to function even if the United States is stretched […]

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Space mobility company Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million to scale up development of its highly maneuverable spacecraft.

Israeli air strikes killed at least seven people in the southern Lebanese town of Abbassiyeh on Thursday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, as fighting intensified barely a day after a US-Iran ceasefire was supposed to halt hostilities across the region. The strikes were not an accident or an oversight. They reveal a ceasefire deliberately […]

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The U.S. Space Force has reportedly awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to manage ground control operations for the next generation of GPS satellites, a decision that amounts to an institutional admission: the Pentagon’s long-troubled OCX program cannot do the job it was built to do. The award covers launch, early orbit, and disposal operations for […]

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The companies will compete for contracts to build ‘neighborhood watch’ satellites

The contract supports next-generation GPS IIIF satellites through 2030

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