“China is replacing Russia as the No. 2 space power,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa HitchensA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
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“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,”
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think there are more questions than answers right now when it comes to SJ-21,” Todd Harrison, director of CSIS’s Aerospace Project, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
The robot satellite known as RSGS will provide four types of service: inspection of anomalies that appear in a satellite’s operations; assist with adjustments to a satellite’s orbit; correct mechanical problems; and, help install new payloads to upgrade capabilities.
By Theresa Hitchens
A Virginia federal court has thrown out a suit by Orbital ATK, basically arguing that while the company’s arguments might have some merits, the court did not have the legal right to cancel a DARPA program. Orbital ATK is building a system it believes competes directly with the DARPA program, known as Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous…
By Colin Clark WASHINGTON: Three influential House lawmakers have asked DARPA in a Jan. 25 letter to review a robotic space repair program to see if it violates the National Space Policy by competing with private-sector efforts and to put the program on hold until the review is complete. The National Space Policy requires “that the government not build or…
By Colin Clark
