Air Force Space Command seeks sources for market information on staffing and support services such as planning, coordination and process development.

Satellite operating firm Spacecom has selected Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary to construct a new communications satellite that will add to the former’s AMOS COMSAT fleet. SSL will build the AMOS-8 that will be designed to provide broadcast and broadband coverage for locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, SSL said Monday. The satellite is …

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. have announced an agreement to launch the SpaceCom-built AMOS-6 satellite aboard Space X’s falcon 9 launch vehicle., according to a SpaceX statement.  “Spacecom was one of our earliest supporters—SpaceX is proud to be their partner and we look forward to launching their AMOS-6 …

Gen. James Dickinson has been appointed as commander of the U.S. Space Command, after most recently serving as the first deputy commander of the agency, Defense News reported Thursday.

Rick Lober, vice president of Hughes Network Systems’ defense and intelligence systems division, has said that the Department of Defense should start deploying a unified network system for satellite communications, Breaking Defense reported Monday.

General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business and Airbus Group's Tesat-Spacecom subsidiary agreed to jointly develop free-space optical communication terminals intended for U.S. defense and intelligence use.

Some launch service providers have moved to decrease the number of their rocket offerings as part of cost-saving efforts, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, told audience at the SpaceCom Expo held Wednesday in Houston the company has reduced Atlas 5 and Delta 2 and …

A Maxar Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $3.2 million contract to design a payload technology for an Airbus satellite developed to support space-based data transmission efforts. MDA will develop preliminary designs, evaluate applicable tools and identify enhancement methods for the optical data relay payload of Airbus’ third SpaceDataHighway satellite, also called the European Data …

Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, has said venture capital firms have made “consistent” investments in space companies amid the lack of “megadeals” involving space startups in 2017, Space News reported Tuesday. Christensen said Tuesday at the SpaceCom Expo in Houston, Texas, that the previous two years each recorded …

SpaceX plans to resume rocket launches in November, two months after a launch pad accident caused a Falcon 9 rocket to explode and destroyed a $200 million communications satellite owned by Space Communication, Reuters reported Tuesday. The space services company has said a second launch site at NASA‘S Kennedy Space Center in Florida would …

Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK have joined SpaceCom as new founding sponsors with focus on space technologies. SpaceCom said Thursday that the companies will sponsor the a SpaceCom conference set to take place from Nov. 17 through 19 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Richard Jackson, …

A Raytheon-led team will develop unmanned aerial vehicle sensors for detecting ground objects not visible to the human eye, Military Aerospace reports. Under a sole-source contract from the Air Force, the team will equip the General Atomics-made MQ-1 Predator with hyperspectral sensors between 2012 and 2016 under the Airborne Cueing …