SpiderOak and Lockheed Martin Space enter space cybersecurity + blockchain collaboration
SpiderOak Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space's Mission Solutions business are developing and testing a zero-trust cybersecurity platform to secure data across the space data supply chain. The two companies have signed an agreement to field key components of the SpiderOak OrbitSecure platform. OrbitSecure allows national security and civil space agencies to harness the commerci Slingshot Aerospace wins US Space Force contract
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building world-class space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX.
The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company's Digital Space Twi New technical concept for NATO's Future Surveillance and Control capabilities
Airbus Defence and Space together with Northrop Grumman and seven industrial players forming the ASPAARO (Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations) team have been selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to conduct one of three Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS). The studies aim to suggest technical solutions for the Alliance Future Juice minisite

Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Amazon signs multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper launch contracts

In the largest commercial launch deal ever, Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper broadband megaconstellation
Amazon signs on launch partners for space internet
Amazon on Tuesday announced deals for scores of launches to deploy a "constellation" of satellites in low orbit around the Earth to provide internet service to people below.
Amazon said that its contracts with Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.
The overall cost and timing of launches booked to ma Kendall: Space Force budget boost speaks to the value of space in defense strategy

t a time when critical U.S. satellites are seen as likely targets for hostile attacks, adding billions of dollars to the Space Force’s budget was a necessary move, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said April 5 in a keynote speech at the 37th Space Symposium.
Orbital Reef passes design review

Orbital Reef, a commercial space station being developed by a consortium of companies, has completed an initial design review as part of a NASA award.
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Japan’s ArkEdge Space closes $18.7 million Series A for nanosatellite projects

Japanese startup ArkEdge Space has raised $18.7 million since this year to continue developing nanosatellite technologies needed for building an Earth-to-moon communication system and a multi-functional smallsat constellation.
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York Space to triple satellite production to meet military and commercial demand

COLORADO SPRINGS – Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear and other defense officials on April 4 toured the manufacturing facilities of Denver-based York Space Systems, one of three companies selected to build satellites for the Defense Department’s internet-in-space constellation.
