DIU seeking ‘near-term’ power-beaming satellite demo
The goal of the new project is to field an operational capability for space-to-space and space-to-ground power beaming by 2030, according to the Defense Innovation Unit call to industry.
DARPA’s robotic servicing mission to finally fly this summer
The Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites mission, a partnership between DARPA and Northrop Grumman, will result in the first US on-orbit servicing capability, according to company officials.
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From Polaris to pulsars: Navy eyes celestial navigation as GPS alternative
Pulsar-based PNT could be used in cislunar space — where the Space Force already is eyeing future operations — or farther out into the solar system where GPS signals do not reach, explained Paul Ray, NRL's head of high energy astrophysics and applications.
Navy lab experiment on ISS could improve long-range radio communications
The Experiment for Characterizing the Lower Ionosphere & Prediction of Sporadic-E (ECLIPSE) sensors are slated to launch to the ISS in March via the DoD Space Test Program, Andrew Nicholas, one of the effort's lead researchers, told Breaking Defense in an email.
Navy seeks to up space game, including via Space Force
"So, we have people doing things all the way from orbitology, to design, build, assemble, integrate, test, and then ultimately operate," said Steven Meier, director of the Naval Research Lab's Naval Center for Space Technology.
Joint US-UK experimental satellites will launch this summer from Cornwall
The two shoebox-sized CubeSats will each carry five miniature sensors, two provided by the Naval Research Lab and three by the UK Defence Science and Technology Lab.
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Link 16 To Tie Legacy Platforms To SDA Satellites
Future satellite vendors will need to "show you can plug your WiFi into our WiFi and get a signal," says Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear.
SDA To Rent Commercial Ground Stations
SDA Director Derek Tournear, and his boss Mike Griffin, want to delay SDA's integration with Space Force until after 2023.
Biotech: Can Microscopic Sentries Protect US Troops?
From repelling bugs to protecting divers in dangerous waters, scientists are pushing the boundaries of biotech.
Say It With Space Lasers: Optical Comsats For Major War
Nine years after the Pentagon tried and failed to build laser communications satellites, can the private sector get it done?
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Say It With Lasers: $45M DoD Prize For Optical Coms
PENTAGON: Live by the radio, die by the radio — unless, maybe, you switch to lasers, which are much harder to detect and interfere with. That’s why the Defense Department recently awarded a three-year, $45 million grant to a tri-service project for a laser communications system. “This is basically fiber optic communications without the fiber,” […]
PACOM Presses To Film China’s Reckless Pilots From P-3s, P-8s
Concerned over increasingly reckless Chinese and Russian intercepts of US aircraft, Pacific Command says it urgently needs cameras on its planes to provide irrefutable proof of their misbehavior. The problem: reconnaissance planes like the propeller-driven P-3 Orion and the new jet-powered P-8 Poseidon are designed to take photos of the land and sea far below, not of […]
Navy Forges New EW Strategy: Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare
WASHINGTON: The Navy is crafting a battle plan to retake control of the electromagnetic spectrum, which the Pentagon’s chief of research says we’ve lost. First of all, if adversaries can exploit rapid advances in commercial electronics to run circles around America’s multi-billion dollar arsenal, our slow-moving procurement process needs to be more open to civilian innovation. […]
Nano Breakthrough For Navy Lab; Tiny Sensors To Detect Explosives, Bio Weapons, Rotten Food
WASHINGTON: Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weapons; unseen sensors peppered throughout a submarine to detect radiation leaks or chemical contamination of the crew’s precious air; a cellphone — think Star Trek tricorder, flip it open, open the app and bingo! — able to detect the gas of […]