Ligado network will jam Iridium’s receivers used by DoD: National Academies

Ligado network will jam Iridium’s receivers used by DoD: National Academies
Ligado network will jam Iridium’s receivers used by DoD: National Academies

The report, required by Congress to get to the bottom of whether Ligado’s network would interfere with DoD capabilities, classifies much of the military impact.

Space Development Agency taps GD-Iridium team for complex ground system

Space Development Agency taps GD-Iridium team for complex ground system
Space Development Agency taps GD-Iridium team for complex ground system

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.”

Space Force eyes Iridium in quest for satellite broadband, say top company officials

Space Force eyes Iridium in quest for satellite broadband, say top company officials
Space Force eyes Iridium in quest for satellite broadband, say top company officials

“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.”

AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic

AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic
AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic

“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.

Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote

Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote
Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote

“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.

‘Astonishingly Misguided:’ HASC & SASC Hammer FCC Chair For Ligado 5G Approval

‘Astonishingly Misguided:’ HASC & SASC Hammer FCC Chair For Ligado 5G Approval
‘Astonishingly Misguided:’ HASC & SASC Hammer FCC Chair For Ligado 5G Approval

“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.

SpaceLogistics Sat Servicing Mission Taps New Markets

SpaceLogistics Sat Servicing Mission Taps New Markets
SpaceLogistics Sat Servicing Mission Taps New Markets

“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.

DoD Drafts New Acquisition Strategy For Commercial SATCOM

DoD Drafts New Acquisition Strategy For Commercial SATCOM
DoD Drafts New Acquisition Strategy For Commercial SATCOM

Space 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.

‘Sizable Dollars’ For ABMS Likely in 2021 Request: Roper

‘Sizable Dollars’ For ABMS Likely in 2021 Request: Roper
‘Sizable Dollars’ For ABMS Likely in 2021 Request: Roper

Roper says he hopes Congress “will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of ‘Platform Land’ and actually putting money towards digital transformation.”

EXCLUSIVE Revolutionary SATCOM Vision Hits Raymond’s Desk: AFSPC

EXCLUSIVE Revolutionary SATCOM Vision Hits Raymond’s Desk: AFSPC
EXCLUSIVE Revolutionary SATCOM Vision Hits Raymond’s Desk: AFSPC

The 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.

Indian ASAT Debris Threatens All LEO Sats: Update

Indian ASAT Debris Threatens All LEO Sats: Update
Indian ASAT Debris Threatens All LEO Sats: Update

Indian claims of no threat from ASAT test debris is “nonsense.”

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…