As government and commercial customers push for more hybrid, resilient satellite constellations, companies are expanding their production capacity and diversifying their products to respond to those needs.
The Space Force is considering how it might incorporate the satellite and its technology into a future hybrid positioning, navigation and timing architecture.
The Space Force wants to move forward with a service life extension effort for the narrowband communications constellation that originated in the Navy.
New reports from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Secure World Foundation survey global counterspace capabilities and point to an increase in the development and use of counterspace weapons.
Tory Bruno, CEO of the United Launch Alliance, believes growing anti-satellite capabilities from China and Russia is a sign the Air Force has to keep pushing forward with modernization in space.
One of the biggest and most important changes is the establishment of a “office of the senior architect” responsible for synchronizing efforts across the Space and Missile Systems Center.
The Secure World Foundation recently released a report on Global Counterspace Capabilities, an open-source assessment of what, exactly, nations can do in space.