SpaceWERX is emphasizing pragmatic military tech over exploratory research.

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Two large GEO communications spacecraft would be deployed before the end of the decade

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Both companies were on-ramped to the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4) contract

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The company’s refueling nozzle was tested at the Air Force Research Laboratory

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The startup Turion Space is developing a family of satellites for autonomous docking and deorbiting services

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Approximately half a dozen launches supporting NRO's proliferated
architecture are planned for 2024

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U.S. Space Command says it is “working with SpaceX to safely track the orbit lowering and reentry of Starlink satellites”

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Space Force recognizes the potential benefits of integrating specialized capabilities present in the commercial marketplace. To adopt them, it needs help from companies like mine.

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A Russian satellite in low Earth orbit broke up June 26, creating more than 100 pieces of trackable debris and briefly causing the International Space Station crew to take shelter.

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The broadband terminals will communicate with commercial satellite networks and with Spain’s next-generation military constellation

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Firefly Aerospace has entered an agreement to launch its Alpha rocket from the Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden.

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A new RAND report highlights China’s inflated perceptions of U.S. threats and a policy approach that resists cooperation with the U.S. to prevent crisis escalation

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R-GPS is a new procurement of small satellites to augment the existing GPS constellation

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Gen. Stephen Whiting: "Let's let the demonstrations continue”

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Gen. Stephen Whiting: The location of a recently launched Russian satellite in low Earth orbit “doesn't seem to be accidental”

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The latest award brings the total value of Lockheed Martin’s contract for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellite program to $8.2 billion

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ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 host payloads from the U.S. military, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and the commercial satellite operator Viasat

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The company won two contracts worth $7.3 million to develop solid rocket motors to be used in Navy Standard missiles’ first and second-stage propulsion

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U.S. manufacturing giant Honeywell plans to buy defense electronics maker CAES for $1.9 billion to enhance its military hardware for space and other domains.

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Rep. Mike Turner warns of a 'Cuban missile crisis in space'

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The Rapid Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) program is the Space Force’s third attempt in recent years to revamp the systems used to monitor, operate and direct the activities of satellites in orbit

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Exploration Laboratories, a startup focused on space resources, will accelerate work on technology to autonomously capture space objects, thanks to a $1.9 million Tactical Funding Increase from SpaceWERX.

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Space ISAC executive director Erin Miller says there should be a lead federal agency responsible for coordinating incident response to cyber attacks targeting space assets

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Blue Origin, CACI International, General Atomics, and Viasat will design optical communications terminals for military spacecraft

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