Rocket Lab has secured a contract with HawkEye 360 to send 15 radio frequency monitoring satellites to low Earth orbit using the Electron launch vehicle. Three Electron missions will be conducted from late 2022 to 2024, with the first delivering three satellites to orbit followed by two, six-spacecraft launches to expand HawkEye 360’s constellation, Rocket […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has received a potential 39-month, $25.2 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to provide a digital twin technology and a training platform. Space Systems Command and the service’s venture arm SpaceWERX will provide funding through the Strategic Financing program to help Slingshot Aerospace further develop its Digital Space Twin to support Space […] More

Defense contractor Leidos has elevated two of its team members, Steve Cook and Paul Engola, to top positions within its Dynetics business. Cook will serve as group president of Dynetics and Engola will be deputy group president of the wholly owned Leidos subsidiary, effective April 1, the company said Tuesday. “I’m excited to see Steve and Paul grow the company’s […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and a four-time recipient of the Wash100 Award, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for his latest Executive Spotlight interview with the publication to discuss Microsoft’s investments into cybersecurity and the FastTrack program to improve our national security efforts and other areas of IT modernization for cloud infrastructures. In addition, Rick Wagner also […] More

BlackSky Holdings and Palantir Technologies have completed a joint project aimed at integrating high-resolution imagery with deep analytics to provide real-time geointelligence and demonstrate the impact of global monitoring from space.  The pilot program combined BlackSky’s commercial satellite imagery and analytics and Palantir Foundry to demonstrate the capability to deploy worldwide intelligence that can potentially […] More

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station and host a two-week demonstration of the SharkSat payload once it leaves the ISS. SharkSat is intended to test and demonstrate multiprocessor systems, digital receivers, integrated circuits and other electronic components to facilitate the development of a Ka-band software defined radio that could have potential applications in 5G, space-to-ground and space-to-space communications.

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United Launch Alliance has delivered its Atlas V rocket to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in preparation for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission in the coming weeks, NASA Spaceflight reported Monday.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne has appointed Kevin Chilton, a 34-year U.S. Air Force veteran and 11-year NASA astronaut, to the company’s board of directors. Chilton’s previous military roles include vice chief of staff and program director for the Air Force and director of politico-military affairs for Asia, Pacific and the Middle East, the company said Tuesday. He […] More

NASA has commenced the in-space commissioning test and adjustment period for a planet identification satellite in preparation for the start of space endeavors by the end of July. The agency started tests on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to make sure that it is functioning properly and to determine if modifications to it would be […] More

NASA plans to collaborate with SpaceX to use the company’s Red Dragon unmanned spacecraft concept to send payloads designed for technology demonstrations to Mars, Space News reported Thursday. Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, said at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference that potential payloads could include resource utilization-based platforms that could potentially turn water […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, oversees direction and policy functions for the British satellite services provider’s U.S. government business unit. The nearly three-decade aerospace and defense veteran is also a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as a program executive officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency before she entered the private […] More