The UK Ministry of Defense has ordered the first satellite to support the development of its Minerva constellation, the communications backbone for a family of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites.
The company recently tested its Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES), a U.S. Space Force program to develop a ground-based anti-jam capability within the Protected Anti-Jam Tactical Satcom portfolio.
Predictions about an increase in attacks on space capabilities made over the last five years are proving true, say a pair of new reports issued by Washington, D.C.-based think tanks April 4.
Launch of the privately funded Axiom Space-1 mission to the International Space Station was delayed to no earlier than April 8, leaving little margin for Axiom’s planned 10-day excursion before NASA puts priority on launching the next resident station crew.
HawkEye 360 and Kleos Space, operators of space-based radio frequency monitoring services, launched on April 1 two new batches of satellites into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Cape Canaveral.
Online photos and video on April 3 confirmed the destruction of the first Russian Air Force Su-35S fighter during the five-week-old invasion of Ukraine.
Sierra Nevada has unveiled a concept for a new special missions variant of the Bombardier Global 6500 business jet, which the company would modify into a contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) jet for the U.S. Army.
Just ahead of a high-profile, privately funded crewed mission for Axiom Space, SpaceX on April 1 launched its fourth rideshare mission, delivering 40 spacecraft into orbit, including a 1-ton hyperspectral imaging satellite for Germany’s space agency, DLR.
Daily space-based imagery and services provider Planet Labs expects full-year revenue this fiscal year to be $170-190 million, practically 30% above last fiscal year, which was 16% above the year before.
AST SpaceMobile, a newly public startup aiming to provide space-based cellular broadband connectivity, remains on track to launch its experimental BlueWalker 3 satellite this summer, managers said late March 31.
Ukraine’s state-owned arms conglomerate has suspended Antonov head Serhiy Bychkov and forwarded information to law enforcement agencies over recent allegations that his inaction led to the destruction of an An-225 Mriya during a battle between Russian and Ukrainian forces at Hostomel Airport.
Consortia led by Airbus and Boeing are welcoming contracts from NATO to undertake risk-reduction studies for a future surveillance system that will replace the alliance’s fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft in the 2030s.
Redwire, a newly public in-space manufacturing and services startup, expects to be part of at least eight planned launches this year after notching a dozen in 2021 and growing its backlog of work to almost $272 million.
In an unexpected move, the Australian defense department has announced that it has scrapped its General Atomics (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian armed UAS program, known as Project Air 7003.
