missile defense
Space Development Agency to deploy hypersonic missile defense satellites by 2022
A June 5 solicitation for a “tracking phenomenology experiment” is a step in the development of a sensor network in space to track hypersonic missiles.
Space startup developing technology to detect hypersonic missiles
Rhea Space Activity and Lunar Resources pitched to the Air Force a concept to deploy two spacecraft to manufacture a large mirror in space.
Missile Defense Agency selects four companies to develop space sensors
Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos and L3Harris will develop competing prototypes.
Pentagon seeking proposals for how to use sensors in space to quickly target enemy missiles
DoD wants space sensors that can be counted on to work even in adverse conditions like solar activity, radiation belts and orbital debris.
Pentagon’s Missile Defense Review unenthusiastic about Star Wars weapons
One of the surprises of the 2019 Missile Defense Review is that it did not cheer the use of weapons in space.
Next steps for the Pentagon’s new space sensors for missile defense
Griffin: “We think the best approach is a network of satellites in low orbit. How many, what orbit, all that is to be determined.”
Trump unveils Missile Defense Review, promises funding for space sensors in 2020
Trump: Space ultimately is “going to be a very big part of our defense and offense."
Is Space Sensor Layer the Pentagon’s next major space program?
Defense officials have been sounding alarms about what they describe as a glaring national security vulnerability — a new class of ultrafast weapons being developed by China and Russia that would overpower U.S. missile defenses.
Defense policy chief: Weapons in space are ‘bridges yet to be crossed’
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin said current defenses only work against ballistic missiles but not hypersonic gliders. “We can’t hit a target we cannot see coming."
SN Military.Space | Who’s who in the national security space workforce • Doubts raised about cost of Space Force • U.S., Brazil to share space data
Outside the national security space community, few people grasp the breadth of activities and missions that might one day transition to a Space Force, if and when Congress votes to create one.
SN Military.Space | Space Force a political football • The next big thing in space missile defense • How to make satellites ‘defendable’
The Pentagon's Joint Oversight Requirements Council will be briefed this fall on potential solutions to a major national security vulnerability: hypersonic weapons that fly into space at supersonic speeds and descend back down to Earth directly on top of targets.
U.S. would need a mega-constellation to counter China’s hypersonic weapons
Griffin: Hypersonic defense is not a mission that can be done realistically from the ground or the oceans.
SN Military.Space | Space reorganization: Reform fatigue already? • SMD Symposium underway in Huntsville • DARPA soon to announce Blackjack winners
These are uncertain times for many of the agencies and offices in the military-space-industrial landscape.
Pentagon ready to put missile-tracking sensors in space, but still needs proof the technology works
The Pentagon hopes to have funding approved possibly next year to begin work on a network of missile-watching satellites.
Amid tensions in Asia-Pacific, State Dept. calls attention to big-ticket sales of U.S. missiles, aircraft to Japan, South Korea
From 2000 to 2017, the U.S. government contracted more than $26 billion in foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea, including advanced combat aircraft and missile defense systems.
Missile-tracking satellites are part of the plan to foil Russia’s hypersonic weapons
The utility of space sensors has been studied for decades so the Pentagon has plenty of data to draw from.
