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Northrop Grumman Successfully Completes Critical Design Review of Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability Program
Northrop Grumman Corporation continues to advance the frontiers of sensing technology, successfully completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) and software demonstration for the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability Program (DARC). Key milestones completed within 12 months of contract award include: Preliminary Design Review Critical Design Review Initial software demonstration “DARC will be…
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MDA to Partner With Thoth Technology on Canadian Space Domain Awareness Capability
MDA is working with Thoth Technology to create a made-in-Canada deep space radar surveillance and space domain awareness (SDA) capability. The companies announced a strategic agreement on Wednesday to combine MDA’s commercial data services with Thoth’s ground-based radar technology for sovereign monitoring in deep space over Canada. Thoth has a ground-based radar technology called Earthfence…
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Despite Advances in AI Technology, it’s Still Not ‘Good Enough,’ NGA Official Says
ST. LOUIS — There is no need to pause development of artificial intelligence (AI) despite recent advances that have alarmed experts and policy-makers about hidden dangers in the use of the technology because it currently is “not good enough” and continued maturing of the technology will ultimately improve capabilities, an official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence…
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CGI Federal Successfully Demos Microsoft Azure Satellite Backhaul for U.S. Marine Corps
CGI Federal confirmed Wednesday that it successfully completed pilot testing of Microsoft Azure Orbital Cloud Access satellite backhaul and Nokia Private 5G communications for the U.S. Marine Corps. The demo took place at the Marine Corps Platform Integration Center (MCPIC) at Blount Island Command (BIC). The demo makes CGI Federal the first Microsoft global partner…
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Space Flight Laboratory Selects Rocket Lab to Launch LEO 3 Broadband Satellite for Telesat
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a deal to launch the LEO 3 satellite for global satellite operator Telesat on an Electron mission scheduled for Q3, 2023. The satellite has been built and manifested to Electron by mission management provider and satellite developer…
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Sierra Space Announces the Successful Power-up of its Dream Chaser Spaceplane
Sierra Space, one of the leading, pureplay commercial space companies building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has announced the successful power-up of its revolutionary Dream Chaser spaceplane. Dream Chaser represents a groundbreaking leap in space transportation technology, designed to provide reliable and cost-effective access to space for a wide range of…
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Kontron and ThinKom Collaborate on Dual-Modem Aviation Antenna
ThinKom and embedded computer technology company Kontron are collaborating on a Ka-band antenna for the aviation market, the companies announced Wednesday. The antenna combine’s Kontron’s ACE Flight 4783 dual modem Modman server integrated with ThinKom’s ThinAir Ka2517 phased-array antenna. The antenna allows for interoperability between Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) systems. In addition,…
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North Korean launch attempt fails, days after South Korea’s successful space shot
North Korea’s Chollima 1 rocket takes off from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station on May 31, local time. Credit: Korean Central News Agency An attempt to place a small North Korean military spy satellite into orbit May 30 failed a few minutes after liftoff, five days after South Korea successfully launched the country’s homegrown Nuri…
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Technical snags force another delay for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule descends toward White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico to wrap up the unpiloted Orbital Flight Test 2 mission on May 25, 2022. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Boeing and NASA officials said Thursday the first launch of astronauts on Boeing’s delay-prone Starliner crew capsule won’t happen in July after engineers recently discovered…
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Arcfield Nets $158M in US Intelligence Space, Ground Systems Integration Contracts
U.S. government services and mission support provider Arcfield announced Wednesday that it was awarded multiple classified systems contracts from an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency totaling $158 million in its 2023 fiscal first quarter. The contracted work includes the enterprise engineering, integration, and verification and validation of space and ground systems, infrastructure, and mission applications both…