Aerospace’s support to NOAA and NASA for the GOES-R mission and successor programs enable new advancements for monitoring Earth’s weather and environment.
Facing Growing Threats, Space Industry Expands Its Cyber Warning Center
Shaun Waterman, Air and Space Forces Magazine – The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a U.S. nonprofit that helps commercial space operators share data about cyberattacks and other threats, is expanding to the U.K. and other allied countries.
The Downlink [Oct 31, 24] Space Money: Report – DoD At Risk of Losing New Commercial Space Suppliers And Capabilities
In this podcast, Laura Winter speaks with Sam Wilson, Director of Strategy and Program Support at Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy.
Space CEOs talk about the challenges and opportunities of selling defense tech
Aria Alamalhodaei – At TechCrunch Disrupt, Aerospace’s CTO Debra Emmons said the government stood up the Defense Innovation Unit, the Office of Strategic Capital, and other funding mechanisms to bring private and public money together.
Space regulation for the next US Administration
T-Minus Space Daily – In this podcast, Maria Varmazis speaks to Brian Weeden, Systems Director at Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, about Space Agenda 2025’s chapter on space regulation.
NRO taps 3 startups for innovative launch experiments
Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense – The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced that it awarded study contracts on innovative launch capabilities to three U.S.-based startups: Cognitive Space, Impulse Space and Starfish Space.
Space Force opens national security launch contracts to new players
Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews – The National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program, structured as an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, is projected at $5.6 billion over five years, and allows the Space Force to issue individual task orders to qualified providers.
U.S. Space Force Seeks Strength In Numbers With Global Partnerships
Vivienne Machi, Aviation Week – The Defense Department is streamlining space-related foreign military sales (FMS) requests for which technical and security analysis has already been completed, reflecting Space Force leaders’ “allied by design” approach.
Commentary: It’s time to have in-space rescue capabilities for human spaceflights
Charles Frank Bolden Jr., Jim Bridenstine and Sean O’Keefe for Orlando Sentinel / Co-signed by Steve Isakowitz, Frank Culberson and Dr. John Grunsfeld – “[I]t is our responsibility to ensure realistic and sensible in-space search and rescue capabilities are available.”
After nozzle failure, Space Force is “assessing” impacts to Vulcan schedule
Stephen Clark, Aviation Week – Space Force officials expect to approve ULA’s Vulcan rocket for military missions without requiring another test flight, despite an unusual problem on the rocket’s second demonstration flight earlier this month.