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August 29, 2019
United States Space Command is Formally Established
At the direction of the President of the United States, the Department of Defense (DoD) established U.S. Space Command today as the 11th Unified Combatant Command...
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August 28, 2019
C-COM's Latest Auto Pointing Antenna and More will be on Display at IBC2019
Highly portable, the multi-segment manpack can be easily hand-carried by one person and assembled in less than 10 minutes without tools.
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Viasat Completes NATO SATCOM Control Stations Upgrades
Using Viasat's Visual Integrated Satellite communications Information, Operation and Networking (VISION) software platform, NATO gains greater...
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August 27, 2019
Maxar Technologies Receives Four-Year NGA Contract for HiRez Imagery
The new contract will allow Maxar to continue providing more than a quarter million U.S. Government users with online and offline, on-demand access to...
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NSSL Phase 2 Competition Proceeds Despite Legal Backlash
...the U.S. Air Force has awarded only three of America’s four main “rocket companies” money to help pay for the development of their rockets that would perform
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August 26, 2019
Get SAT and U.K.’s GRC Get Together for a Strategic Cooperation Relationship
to offer solutions that would have proved impossible due to unique vehicle requirements and even to develop their own magnetic mount, for walk on fit,
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MILSATCOM Earth Station Infrastructure Upgrade Contracted to Speedcast Government
This contract will ensure the DoD has the most current hardware including amplifiers, receivers, and power supplies necessary to provide highly...
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August 25, 2019
On The DSEI Show Floor: PPM Systems Featuring Crossbow RF System and More...
To be prominently featured will be the company’s Crossbow RF scanning/decode system for mission-critical electronic surveillance of the...
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August 23, 2019
SMC's Statement Regarding Successful Sendoff of the GPS III SV 2 Satellite Launch
conducted a rigorous source selection to ensure the ULA Delta IV rocket met all mission requirements, which included examining every single piece of
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August 22, 2019
L3Harris Delivers the Eighth Navigation Payload for the USAF's GPS III Satellite to Lockheed Martin
The GPS III navigation payload features a Mission Data Unit (MDU) with a unique 70-percent digital design that links atomic clocks, radiation-hardened...
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ULA's Delta IV Medium's Successful Last Launch and Statement Regarding U.S.A.F.'s GPS III SV02
Today's final sendoff of the Delta IV Medium+ configuration vehicle successfully launched the U.S.A.F.'s Global Positioning System III SV02
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BAE Systems RAD750™ Single Board Computers are Part of Payload On U.S.A.F.'s GPS III
“Security and reliability are key to ensuring warfighters can depend on GPS signals. Our rad-hard RAD750 processor can withstand radiation doses a million times stronger ....”
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August 21, 2019
L-1 ULA's Dress Rehearsal for Launch of USAF's GPS III SV02 and a Peek Behind-the-Scenes
Here's how the magic happens. First, it's not magic, and it doesn't 'just happen'. Those photos that document the launches require camera crews ...
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L3 Technologies Awarded U.S. Army Contract
Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah, with an estimated completion date of August 31, 2021...
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New Solutions to Extend LTE Coverage via Helicopters and UAVs to be Developed by Hughes and Virtual Network Communications
The new solutions support various global applications for government, militaries, first responders, and commercial MNOs...
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Get SAT and GRC Create a Strategic Cooperation Relationship
The partners will usher in a new era of COTM powered by direct high bandwidth real-time video, audio and data communication...
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USAF Space and Missile Systems Center's Statement ... Thanks for the Delta IV Memories
" ... we bid farewell and thank you to a launch vehicle with an excellent track record in the Delta IV ... look forward to this final, successful launch for this ULA mainstay,”
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August 20, 2019
Lepton Global Receives USCG Satellite Services Support Contract
The company will provide iDirect-based Ku-band satellite communications, including data and voice, to USCG Mobile Command Vehicles (MCVs) and...
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August 19, 2019
Iran Nears Completion of Their Pars 1 Satellite
Pars 1 is passing the final steps in SRI. He added that the research center is planning to design and produce remote sensing satellite Pars 2 and in...
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Viasat Selects Blue Canyon Technologies to Build MILSATCOM Smallsat for USAF Test Mission
BCT announced plans on August 19 to build a 12-unit cubesat bus equipped with Viasat’s Link 16 terminal to be launched in 2020. U.S. military...
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August 18, 2019
State-Of-The-Art Event Space Opened by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
The TEC will be a year-round resource for the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) community and any organization interested in hosting events in...
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August 15, 2019
Solicitations for the U.S.A.F.'s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 Released by SMC
OSP-4 is a follow-on to the OSP-3 contract that is set to expire in November. OSP-4 will allow for the rapid acquisition of launch services to...
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Lockheed Martin's Cyber Experts' New Model Standardizes Measurement Of Cybersecurity In Critical DoD Assets
a first-of-its-kind model that standardizes how to measure the cyber resiliency maturity of a weapon, mission, and/or training system anywhere in its lifecycle
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August 14, 2019
PPM Systems' Has a New Business Development Manager ... His Experience is in Military/Defense
Paul’s experience is ideally suited to the company’s main markets, which are in the government and military/defense sectors.
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August 13, 2019
Meeting the Needs for Expanded Space Missions ... ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Ships to Florida Late in 2020
In the factory, the fabrication of the structure for the first Vulcan Centaur rocket continues, and the team recently completed the booster structural ...
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ManTech International Corporation Acquires H2M Group as Well as Their Intelligence Analysis Expertise
This acquisition strengthens ManTech’s ability to help key government agencies implement new automation techniques that enable intelligence...
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August 12, 2019
Lasers and Machine Guns: Why Russia Should Fear France’s Killer Satellites
“If our satellites are threatened, we envisage blinding those of our enemies. We will judge the moment and the means of retaliation.”
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August 11, 2019
Vector's First is Small ... a USAF Launch Contract for Small Launch Tasking
The ASLON-45 Space Vehicle (SV) manifest will consist of multiple 3U and larger U.S. Government cubesats to LEO at a 45 degree inclination, with all ....
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Kymeta Products Now on Contract with United States Special Operations Command
This contract places Kymeta on USSOCOM Special Operations Forces Deployable Node (SDN) Lite and is designed to support the procurement of...
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August 9, 2019
A TWEET Statement from USAF Space and Missile Systems Center ... AEHF-5 Successfully Launches
"Jumping for joy after a successful launch and separation"
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August 8, 2019
UPDATE: They're 'Talking' ... USAF's 4th Space Ops is in Communications with Lockheed Martin's AEHF-5 Satellite
The squadron began “flying” the satellite shortly after it separated from its United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket approximately 5 hours and 40 minutes...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Pushes AEHF-5 to Orbit
In addition to the five AJ-60A solid rocket motors that helped to lift the Atlas V off the launch pad, Aerojet Rocketdyne provided the RL10C-1...
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August 7, 2019
U.S. Air Force Experimental Smallsat Rideshare Payload will be Aboard the ULA AEHF-5 Launch Later this Week
The main payload is the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, or AEHF-5. For this mission, the U.S. Air Force...
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L1 - Weather Good So Far for Early Morning Launch of ULA's Atlas V 551 for Air Force's AEHF-5
AEHF is a joint-service satellite communications system providing survivable, global, secure, protected and jam-resistant communications for high-priority military assets.
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U.S. Air Force Space Command's Pearl White Smallsats to be Launched by Rocket Lab
The launch will occur at the Rocket Lab Launch Complex-1 near Mahia, New Zealand. The program goal is to design, develop, launch and operate...
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U.S. DoD Awards Contracts to United Launch Services and Northrop Grumman
This modification provides for launch vehicle production services for National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Launch Mission Three, the last of..
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August 6, 2019
Japan to Create Military Space Unit
The main task of the unit will be to monitor space debris, threats of attacks or interference by other countries satellites. As the Japanese Self Defence...
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Russian Military Launches Kosmos-2539 Satellite
The Proton-M carrier rocket was launched from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 00:56 Moscow Time. At 1:01am, the Russian Aerospace...
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August 5, 2019
New Constellation for UNSEENLABS and Ridesharing for BlackSky and U.S. Air Force Space Command by Rocket Lab
The mission — named ‘Look Ma, No Hands’ — will lift-off in August from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, carrying a total of four satellites aboard...
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Wavestream's $7 Million Contract to Deliver Comms-On-The-Halt for U.S. Army's WIN-T Program
WIN-T was established to provide anytime, anywhere connectivity via the U.S. DoD’s WGS satellite network. Wavestream’s Solid State Amplifier...
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Three Spacecraft to Launch Aboard Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket through Spaceflight's Mission Management Process
This mission marks Spaceflight’s fifth launch of 2019. In addition to the “Make It Rain” mission in June, it follows the successful launch and...
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L-3 Readiness Review for ULA's Launch of AEHF-5 for U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
Weather report for Thursday's launch looks good so far, but then Florida's weather this time of year can come with surprises.
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August 1, 2019
By the Slice ... Aitech’s Multi-Core Remote I/O Subsystem Ports Linux OS With Eight Expansion 'Slices'
This modular small form factor RIU internally networks up to eight expansion modules – or ‘slices’ – for extremely high density and low power in a compact
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Defense Logistics Agency Awards Viasat with Small, Tactical Terminals Contract ... Maximum $28 Million
Location of performance is California, with a May 30, 2024, performance ...
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