The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced a $150 million loan agreement to space intelligence company LeoLabs to expand its manufacturing capacity and add dozens of radars to its global network by 2030.
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Over a two-week period beginning in late September and culminating in mid-October, a Russian satellite maneuvered dangerously close to a commercial Finnish satellite currently providing intelligence to the Ukrainian military. The apparent provocation has experts wondering why Russia made the move—testing new capabilities, collecting intelligence, ...
As the Space Force looks to expand its ability to track objects in orbit, a series of ground-based radars coming in the next few years could help fill gaps in coverage.
The Space Force won’t speculate publicly on details about Russia’s debris-generating test of an anti-satellite weapon in low Earth orbit in November. Outside experts, on the other hand, suspect that the weapon approached the target satellite from behind and below and broke it up into ...
Russia’s ASAT test rattled the world. The Space Force was already working on solutions.