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Investors are pouring billions into new companies challenging the space industry incumbents at a historic moment when technology and markets are converging to bring about dramatic advances, from sci-fi worthy manned space travel and colonization, …
Commercial geospatial startups: beware the valley of death
It’s not easy for commercial geospatial intelligence products to make their way into day-to-day operations of defense and intelligence agencies.
Retired Air Force four-star Paul Selva joins Aerospace Corp. board of trustees
Retired general Paul Selva, former DoD official Kathleen Hicks and former NASA official Dava Newman were elected to the Aerospace board of trustees
Air Force, NRO cubesats fly to International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman resupply mission
Air Force and NRO cubesats were among many experimental projects encapsulated in the NG-12 Cygnus mission.
Air Force awards Aerospace Corp. $1.08 billion contract for space support services in FY20
The new contract includes support services for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Development Agency.
NASA awards Aerospace Corp. contract worth up to $621 million
NASA awarded the Aerospace Corp. an engineering, evaluation and testing support contract with a maximum potential value of $621 million over nine years.
Air Force space buyers trying to make change happen
A deep-rooted organization like SMC with more than 5,000 employees and a $7 billion budget is not going to change overnight, but it’s taking small steps.
Aerospace cubesat produces nighttime imagery
The Aerospace Corp. showed it can capture high resolution nighttime imagery with three cameras that fit inside a single cubesat measuring ten centimeters on a side.
Falcon Heavy’s first commercial launch to pave the way for reusable rockets in national security missions
The data from the Arabsat 6A mission could determine how soon the Air Force will be ready to certify reused boosters.
Air Force announces new effort to procure more resilient satellites
At a conference last week hosted by the Aerospace Corp.in El Segundo, California, officials from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center talked about a future space architecture that will be more flexible and resilient to threats than current constellations.
Small satellites are at the center of a space industry transformation
No longer the province of university researchers and technology developers, small satellites are moving into the aerospace mainstream.
Aerospace Corp.’s iLab encourages out-of-the-box thinking without leaving home
Instead of designing satellites years before they launch to perform specific tasks, what if small multipurpose satellites were designed for a variety of jobs? And what if those satellites could be launched separately before linking in orbit to perform one mission, then reconfigured to tackle a different job? That’s the concept behind the Aerospace Corporation’s adaptable multipurpose satellite concept, called Hive.
