Startup SCOUT piques Space Force interest with space data software

Startup SCOUT piques Space Force interest with space data software
Startup SCOUT piques Space Force interest with space data software

Sergio Gallucci, SCOUT co-founder and chief technology officer, told Breaking Defense that its new AFWERX contract is focused on demonstrating its software for integrating and streamlining unclassified data from multiple satellites.

SpaceLogistics sees potential defense market for orbital life-extension spacecraft

SpaceLogistics sees potential defense market for orbital life-extension spacecraft
SpaceLogistics sees potential defense market for orbital life-extension spacecraft

“It’s not just resiliency from a life-extension perspective” for the Space Force. said SpaceLogistics President Rob Hauge. “We’ve got the potential to actually include other payloads as well,”

Space Force plans multiple hosted payloads for GEO belt monitoring

Space Force plans multiple hosted payloads for GEO belt monitoring
Space Force plans multiple hosted payloads for GEO belt monitoring

Space System Command’s overarching goal is to develop “diverse” capabilities for space domain awareness across all orbits.

New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson

New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson
New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson

SMC is “working on innovative relationships with, believe it or not, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and some other places you wouldn’t think of as traditional spacefaring nations,” says Gen. DT Thompson, Space Force vice.

Space Force Wants $5B For Anti-Jam Satcoms

Space Force Wants $5B For Anti-Jam Satcoms
Space Force Wants $5B For Anti-Jam Satcoms

PTS is not a satellite per se, rather it is envisioned as a payload that could be carried by US military, commercial or even allied satellites.

US, Japan To Ink Hosted Payload Pact to Monitor Sats

US, Japan To Ink Hosted Payload Pact to Monitor Sats
US, Japan To Ink Hosted Payload Pact to Monitor Sats

Japan plans to host an American Space Situational Awareness (SSA) sensor payload on their QZSS satellites. American and Japanese officials are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding by the end of the year.

Commercial Satellites: Will They Be Military Targets?

Commercial Satellites: Will They Be Military Targets?
Commercial Satellites: Will They Be Military Targets?

“We anticipate that adversary nations are unlikely to discriminate between U.S. military satellites and commercial satellites providing services to the U.S. Government, in the event of a conflict,” Defense Secretary nominee Mark Esper told the Senate during his confirmation hearing.

Thompson: AFSPC Will Use Mega Constellations

Thompson: AFSPC Will Use Mega Constellations
Thompson: AFSPC Will Use Mega Constellations

“We will be using proliferated LEO,” says Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of Air Force Space Command. “It is simply a matter of for what missions.”

HASC OKs 18 RD-180s; Adds $100M For New Designs

HASC OKs 18 RD-180s; Adds $100M For New Designs
HASC OKs 18 RD-180s; Adds $100M For New Designs

WASHINGTON: The House Armed Services Committee is certainly no friend to today’s Russia as ruled by Vladimir Putin, but even they now support the Pentagon’s plans to use 18 Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines. The HASC approved by voice vote an amendment by Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado to the National Defense Authorization Act that would…

‘This Is Our Sputnik Moment:’ Rep. Bridenstine Offers Sweeping Space Bill

‘This Is Our Sputnik Moment:’ Rep. Bridenstine Offers Sweeping Space Bill
‘This Is Our Sputnik Moment:’ Rep. Bridenstine Offers Sweeping Space Bill

COLORADO SPRINGS: Declaring the words in the headline, a junior congressman from Oklahoma who has stepped into a void of space leadership in the House, Rep. James Bridenstine, boldly told a jaded audience of senior space officials, diplomats, enthusiasts and the aerospace industry today that America “must forever be the preeminent spacefaring nation.” Bridenstine unveiled his American…

DARPA Hopes To Build Plug-In Satellites In Space

DARPA Hopes To Build Plug-In Satellites In Space
DARPA Hopes To Build Plug-In Satellites In Space

WASHINGTON: Imagine self-healing satellites built in space. One sensor breaks down and another sensor elsewhere on the satellite takes up the slack. And the satellites are launched in modular pieces, on a series of different rockets, then are assembled by a robot arm in orbit. Parts can be replaced. The satellite can be refueled to…

Hosted Space Payloads Almost Ready For Liftoff; Harris, Iridium Pair On Aireon

UPDATED: Air Force General Praises CHIRP, Hosted Payloads COLORADO SPRINGS, NATIONAL SPACE SYMPOSIUM: After almost a decade of discussion, hope and frustration, the time appears to finally be ripe for what the space industry calls hosted payloads, the Remora fish of satellites. The Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, which has long been wary…

Intelligence Chief Hints At New Spy Satellites; Biggest Change in 30 Years

ORLANDO: The United States has boosted into orbit new spy satellites that mark “the most significant change to our overhead architecture in at least three decades,” said the head of military intelligence, Mike Vickers. Vickers also said these National Reconnaissance Office’s satellites comprise “a truly integrated system of systems for the first time.” Sadly for…