Boeing won approval from the Space Force to move forward with its newly designed Wideband Global Satellite Communications system, setting the stage for production to begin next year. Passing the preliminary design review allows Boeing to start its final design phase on WGS-11+, which will ...
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A military team is working with SpaceX to flesh out the prospect of shipping routes that pass through space, the head of U.S. Transportation Command said Oct. 7. That group could demonstrate as early as 2021 whether quickly sending cargo around the globe via space ...
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L3Harris and SpaceX won contracts Oct. 5 to provide the first ballistic missile warning satellites for the Space Development Agency, growing the number of companies working on the future military constellation to four. L3Harris received $193.6 million and SpaceX got $149.2 million to design, develop, ...
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Check out United Launch Alliance CEO's fireside chat on space with Space Force Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David Thompson—whom the Senate has since confirmed to serve as USSF's first-ever Vice Chief of Space Operations—that was held during the Air Force Association's virtual Air, Space & ...
The Space Force will stand up its Space Systems Command to oversee software and hardware acquisition “sooner rather than later” in 2021, the service’s second-highest uniformed official said Oct. 1. Lt. Gen. David D. Thompson said during a Defense One event that the new systems ...
Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Space Force Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear, speaks with Rachel S. Cohen about Space Force.
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