The new White House plan for cislunar S&T tasks DoD to lead development of new, and/or improvement of current, ground- and space-based sensors for monitoring the cislunar region.
By Theresa HitchensBetter user interface and experience create faster decision-making in multi-domain operations
Improved UX and UI can enable smarter use of AI and automation, helping warfighters manage data-rich environments and make faster, more informed decisions.
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How cutting-edge technology from L3Harris is enabling rapid data processing—and faster, more informed decisions in space defense operations.
By L3Harris Technologies
Future military, civil and commercial cislunar operations will require precise lunar maps not just of topography, but also of the Moon’s gravitational and magnetic fields.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The envisioned lunar railroad network could transport humans, supplies and resources for commercial ventures across the lunar surface,” according to Northrop Grumman’s announcement.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Nuclear weapons in space are a really, really dumb idea,” said Jessica West of Canadian non-profit Ploughshares, but experts note that with Russia, nothing can ever be fully ruled out.
By Theresa Hitchens
ULA’s Vulcan Centaur needs one more successful flight test to be certified to carry payloads to orbit under the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program.
By Theresa Hitchens
“This oversight regime will balance economic competitiveness together with safety, security, sustainability, and responsibility,” states the new United States Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision Framework.
By Theresa Hitchens
Capability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
A tool to explore what-if scenarios and tradeoffs at the theater-level faster than traditional analysis.
Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Ensuring operational excellence and mission assurance across defense and commercial sectors.
By BAE Systems
Germany is not the first European country to join, but as a political and economic center of the continent, Berlin’s move could convince several others to follow suit.
By Theresa Hitchens
Mike Gold, a former NASA official and member of the study team, told Breaking Defense that if any UAP proves to be extraterrestrial, “that would probably be the best case scenario, because if these systems are from terrestrial adversaries, that is really terrifying.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
By Theresa Hitchens
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BAE Systems sees two significant trends in radiation-hardened and tolerant solutions in space, and they’re the opposite of each other.
By Breaking Defense
While the company currently is using already available data from satellites like NASA’s Landsat and ESA’s Sentinel-2, Hydrosat also intends to launch its own constellation of 16 microsats to low Earth orbit (LEO).
By Theresa Hitchens
