Under the $324.5 million contract, the team will develop the “ground Operations and Integration (O&I) segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.”
By Theresa Hitchens“We’re offering a very specialized services so we’re not trying to compete in the general purpose broadband,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch told Breaking Defense. “We don’t have to be the primary; we may be the emergency or contingency kind of solution.”
By Theresa Hitchens“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
By Theresa Hitchens“I think there’s some very compelling petitions for reconsideration before the FCC right now, so I’m hoping that they would hit the pause button,” says Iridium’s legal rep Robert McDowell.
By Theresa Hitchens“As far as I know the Pentagon doesn’t have a ‘death ray,’ but the nearest thing it has is GPS Kryptonite: when you get close enough to GPS to interfere: you die,” one veteran space industry watcher joked about the FCC Chair’s decision to approve Ligado’s 5g approach.
By Theresa Hitchens“I see a great expansion in capability that will come as a result of this,” Anderson said of SpaceLogistic’s first robotic on-orbit servicing mission.
By Theresa HitchensSpace Force will ask for 2022 money for commercial satcom, but the funds will not be for buying services as industry would like — rather for R&D.
By Theresa HitchensRoper says he hopes Congress “will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of ‘Platform Land’ and actually putting money towards digital transformation.”
By Theresa HitchensThe vision itself isn’t the only thing that is needed, industry sources say. A concept of operations is required for how the Air Force will manage different user needs and interact with different industry providers. “The vision is out, but there is no concept of operations,” said one source.
By Theresa HitchensIndian claims of no threat from ASAT test debris is “nonsense.”
By Theresa HitchensWASHINGTON: 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…
By Colin ClarkUPDATED: 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…
By Colin Clark