DIU, Space Force team up to kick-start buys of commercial sats for monitoring GEO
Both firms are working under earlier Pentagon contracts to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operators that could also support future orbital warfare.
Both firms are working under earlier Pentagon contracts to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operators that could also support future orbital warfare.
The Space Force's TacRS program has at least three more Victus demonstration projects in the works, with a total of $300 million requested from fiscal 2027 to 2031.
The service pledged it would demonstrate an “initial capability” for the orbital missile killers by 2028.
Victus Haze is the second iteration of the Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space-3 (TacRS-3) mission to launch a prototype satellite within 24 hours of a “go” order, but also is designed to quickly perform an up-close on-orbit inspection of a (simulated) threatening spacecraft.
The company is using private capital to build its hunter satellite, called Jackal, to shadow adversary satellites seeking to evade US tracking.