MDA's budget blueprint for 2016 contained a refreshing surprise: a $22 million request to field of commercially hosted sensors that would determine whether or not incoming missiles have been successfully intercepted.
Rep. Bridenstine (R-Okla.) has raised the possibility of reactivating an idled missile-warning demonstration sensor hosted aboard a commercial telecommunications satellite.
The FAA office that licenses U.S. commercial space launches is set to eliminate a paperwork obstacle SpaceX had to negotiate in order to tote a couple dozen tag-along student experiments on a 2012 cargo run to the International Space Station.
Harris has delivered the first flight payload for the Aireon aircraft navigation venture, which will use the Iridium Next satellite constellation to help airlines save money by flying more efficient routes.
A new U.S. Air Force contracting vehicle for hosting government payloads on commercial satellites likely will be used exclusively for civilian scientific missions for three to five years.
The infrared payload still needs to be integrated and tested on the Space Based Infrared System satellite.
Exelis Geospatial Systems has finally shipped the troublesome navigation payload whose developmental hiccups have delayed the first launch of GPS 3.
The U.S. Senate’s newly drafted defense spending bill for 2015 directs the Air Force to allocate at least $20 million for work on a space-based digital navigation instrument as a possible alternative to the payload developed for the service’s new-generation GPS 3 satellites.
The Air Force is aiming to create a contracting vehicle to standardize the processes and interfaces for placing dedicated military capabilities aboard commercial satellites.
United Launch Alliance celebrates its second launch in six days.
The report would also prescribe new spending restrictions for a proposed mission to send humans to an asteroid by 2025.
Harris has booked multiple hosted payloads to be flown on the Iridium Next constellation in addition to the main aircraft-tracking payload the company is building.
The first SHERPA will deploy up to 1,200 kilograms of customer satellite payloads into low Earth orbit in the second half of 2015.
The U.S. Air Force has identified six candidate payloads that could be matched with commercial host satellites through the service’s soon-to-be-awarded Hosted Payload Solutions contract.
NASA picked up a one-year, $22 million option on Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems’ payload-processing contract for ISS cargo.
Exelis has completed and tested two critical components of the navigation payload that has delayed the GPS 3 system.
