“The envisioned lunar railroad network could transport humans, supplies and resources for commercial ventures across the lunar surface,” according to Northrop Grumman’s announcement.
By Theresa HitchensBAE Systems’ LR-PGK: The Superior Anti-Jam Solution
Going the distance to defeat emerging jam threats.
“Nuclear weapons in space are a really, really dumb idea,” said Jessica West of Canadian non-profit Ploughshares, but experts note that with Russia, nothing can ever be fully ruled out.
By Theresa Hitchens
ULA’s Vulcan Centaur needs one more successful flight test to be certified to carry payloads to orbit under the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program.
By Theresa Hitchens
“This oversight regime will balance economic competitiveness together with safety, security, sustainability, and responsibility,” states the new United States Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision Framework.
By Theresa Hitchens
Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Ensuring operational excellence and mission assurance across defense and commercial sectors.
By BAE Systems
Germany is not the first European country to join, but as a political and economic center of the continent, Berlin’s move could convince several others to follow suit.
By Theresa Hitchens
B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
Mike Gold, a former NASA official and member of the study team, told Breaking Defense that if any UAP proves to be extraterrestrial, “that would probably be the best case scenario, because if these systems are from terrestrial adversaries, that is really terrifying.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
By Theresa Hitchens
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BAE Systems sees two significant trends in radiation-hardened and tolerant solutions in space, and they’re the opposite of each other.
By Breaking Defense
While the company currently is using already available data from satellites like NASA’s Landsat and ESA’s Sentinel-2, Hydrosat also intends to launch its own constellation of 16 microsats to low Earth orbit (LEO).
By Theresa Hitchens
“When people like to question the validity or usefulness of this engine, I point them to Wernher von Braun,” said Tabitha Dodson, DRACO program manager at DARPA, “because this was more or less his idea.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 is designed to serve the responsive space needs of commercial, civil, defense, and national security customers, supporting up to 12 missions per year,” the company said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Those of us who follow the space industry closely understand the autonomous flight termination is a key component of the range of the future. In fact, for DoD missions, autonomous flight termination is a mandate by 2025,” said NASA’s David Pierce.
By Theresa Hitchens
