Suspect in space? Analysis finds 75 ‘unusual’ moves by Chinese satellites in nearly 10 years
The moves by a few Chinese satellites in GEO show patterns of activity that suggest potential military and intelligence missions, the CSIS study asserts.
MDA outlines Golden Dome’s SHIELD $151 billion contracting vehicle
The government could spend those funds on a host of areas under the new Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, contracting vehicle, according to presentation slides reviewed by Breaking Defense.
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In contested seas, autonomy has to think ahead, not just steer
As missions stretch farther and comms grow less reliable, predictive software could become the edge that keeps missions afloat.
AST, Kayhan, LeoLabs team to demo capability to reduce Space Force satellite tracking times
The goal of the collaborative effort was to show that commercial data can help close the time lag between when a satellite is released into orbit from a rocket to when the Space Force can reliably track it and put the trajectory coordinates into the military's catalog of space objects, said Kayhan CEO Siamak Hesar..
Anduril could receive up to $100M for Space Surveillance Network upgrade
Anduril's Lattice software "will replace legacy communications systems with a resilient mesh network" to link sensors, rapidly share data with users, and ease integration of new software systems and users, the company said.
Hide and seek: Despite sharper eyes on the heavens, sneaky sats can still find shadows
Hiding in the sun, launching mini satellites and radar absorbent materials are just some of the tricks nations are using to hide their military satellites in orbit.
Space Force effort to replace aging space tracking software lagging: DOT&E
"[P]roduct development has been slower than anticipated, and the projected date to decommission SPADOC continues to extend further to late FY24, a delay of more than two years from the original timeline," according to the 2023 Annual Report of the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
US leads world in 2023 launches, sats on orbit: study
SpaceX alone was responsible for 98 of the 109 launch attempts made by the US in 2023, and 1,937 of the 2,234 US satellites successfully orbited.
LeoLabs: Russia, China time suspicious space activity for some US holidays
The company said that on Thanksgiving, for instance, a Russian satellite's sub-satellite — in a Matryoshka-style — released yet another satellite, in what a LeoLabs analysis said could've been timed for fewer American eyes on the sky.
Second Russian Luch/Olymp satellite now trailing Western systems in orbit
While the new Russian satellite didn't get super close to any others, its behavior "could be considered unfriendly," said Slingshot's Audrey Schaffer, who until recently served as the director of space policy at the National Security Council.
Pentagon plans to transfer ‘high accuracy’ space tracking data to Commerce
"Commercial data, commercial processing is not classified. It does not matter that the DoD wishes it were," said Barbara Golf, special advisor to Space Systems Command.
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3D vision is redefining how drones navigate without GPS
As “dirty” RF and contested environments proliferate, autonomy increasingly depends on resilient positioning.
Space moves: Trackers losing maneuvering sats, increasing heavenly danger, study says
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.
Commerce study highlights benefits, challenges for allied space surveillance cooperation
There is growing concern about what happens when different countries' predictions of an on-orbit collision do not match, said Matt Hejduk, of The Aerospace Corporation. "A man with two watches never knows what time it is," he quipped.
Joint Commerce, STRATCOM commercial SSA pilot planned for December
That pilot project will use SPACECOM's Unified Data Library (UDL) as a data base, DalBello said, because Commerce is still in the early stages of creating its own cloud-based data storage capability, called the Open Architecture Data Repository (OADR).
New Aussie deal forwards SPACECOM commander’s goal of ‘persistent awareness’ of the heavens
Speaking with Breaking Defense and Defense One on Tuesday, SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson noted the importance of space "governance," including "norms of responsible behavior," and the "need to better preserve" the space environment.