Air and Space Forces Magazine — Space Training and Readiness Command officially opened its new headquarters building on Patrick Space Force Base, located just a few miles from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Report: European Union’s shift to defense space and security signals changing role for ESA
Aerospace America — Aerospace’s Michael Gleason wrote the CSPS report “‘A Geopolitical Awakening’: The European Union and Space.” The EU’s 5-year-old space agency, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), is poised to displace the decades-old European Space Agency as the biggest spender in the region’s space sector.
NASA’s Isaacman Says Agency Confident it has Funds for Moon Base
Bloomberg — NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says he’s confident that the agency will have the cash it needs to build its new moon base, an ambitious program that will need $20 billion over the next seven years and $30 billion over the next decade.
Leaders Say Nuclear Forces, Space Domain Paramount to National Security
U.S. Department of War — Protecting America’s space systems is essential for national security because so many military capabilities rely on them — including precision navigation, global communications, missile warning and real-time intelligence, said Space Force Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command.
Space Force Seeks Proposals for $981M NITE-STAR Multi-Award Space Test, Training Contract
GovConWire — As part of the contract, participating contractors must collaborate with an FFRDC like The Aerospace Corporation.
Rocket Lab Wins $190 Million Pentagon Deal for Hypersonic Test Flights
SpaceNews — Pentagon’s Test Resource Management Center issued the award, as part of its program to use commercial launch providers to supplement government test infrastructure.
US Space Force clears design milestone, advances missile-warning constellation
DefenseNews — Space Systems Command announced that System Delta 84 completed the preliminary design review for its Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, a 10-satellite Epoch 2 medium Earth orbit constellation.
Space Force Opens Secretive Space Tracking to Commercial Firms
SpaceNews — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data and artificial intelligence.
Space Force Officials Preparing for More Budget Growth in 2027
Air and Space Forces Magazine — Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the U.S. Space Force is looking to add capability in areas like testing and training infrastructure and space weapon systems in fiscal year 2027.
The Coming Wave of Competition in LEO Constellations
Via Satellite — After years of Starlink holding a commanding lead in LEO broadband, analysts and industry experts see a shift in the constellation race. Aggressive launch schedules for new services, differentiated offerings, and geopolitics are all driving greater competition in an expanding market.
