Space
General Atomics United States Space Force Unit of the Year Award Presented to 11th Space Warning Squadron
SAN DIEGO – 30 June 2025 – General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that the 11th Space Warning Squadron (11th SWS) is the inaugural recipient of the 2024 General Atomics...Read More
Polaris Dawn: Pushing the Boundaries of Human Spaceflight and The Commercial Space Industry
In April 2024, a lot of fanfare (and later, flack) surrounded the 11 minute Blue Origin flight, carrying several famous women, “to the edge of space” and back. What many...Read More
Space Junk: What It Is, Why We Should Care and What We Should Do About It
Remember playing dodgeball? What about the sting of taking one of those balls right in the face? Did you know an average elementary school-aged student throws a dodgeball at about...Read More
U. S. Space Force Field Commands successfully launch GPS III, demonstrating expedited launch capabilities
Summary: A National Security Space Launch (NSSL) class mission lifted a second Global Positioning System (GPS) III space vehicle to orbit on a rapid response schedule in three months, demonstrating...Read More
Space Domain Awareness: Colorado Springs R&D at the Tip of the Spear
Nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs, Colorado has emerged as a national epicenter for space domain awareness (SDA) research and development (R&D), where public-private partnerships, academic...Read More
Lockheed Martin Goes Deep: Space Exploration and The Future of Mars Sample Return
For over five decades, Lockheed Martin has been a cornerstone of NASA’s most ambitious planetary science missions, from the Viking landers that first touched Mars’ surface to the cutting-edge OSIRIS-REx...Read More
Discovering Best of Breed Solutions for SOF: How Businesses Can Engage Through SOFWERX
When it comes to technology, to keep up with today’s fast-paced battlefield innovations, the need for rapid iteration has become paramount. In the critical military research and development (R&D) space,...Read More
Is Your Business SOF Peculiar? How to Work with Special Operations Forces
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are renowned for their agility, innovation and relentless pursuit of mission success. As such, they seek to do business with like-minded companies. In other words, they...Read More
Space Mineral Wars, On-Orbit Services and the Technician Black Hole: An Out of This World Update on Space News
By: Dawn Zoldi Experts predict the global space industry will become a $1.8 trillion economy by 2035. Driven by satellite technology, resource extraction and international collaboration, this growth will also...Read More
Space Systems Command Charts a New Course: Personnel, Partnerships, and the Future of Space Acquisition
Space Systems Command (SSC), the acquisition arm of the U.S. Space Force leads the charge in terms of how America develops, fields and sustains space capabilities. In a recent candid...Read More