A bit like the NASA commercial crew effort, the US Air Force has announced that it is to part fund three companies’ development of new launch vehicles, with a view to signing up two of them (or an outsider) for a full series of launch contracts. The three firms...
While the USA frets about the activities of certain Russian inspection satellites, and France frets about the activities of certain Russian eavesdropping satellites another satellite in orbit has caused raised eyebrows amongst orbital analysts. And this one is...
Having already won the contract for the first batch of 10 yet-to-be launched GPS 3A satellites (ordered in 2008), Lockheed Martin found itself in the enviable position of being the sole bidder for the GPS 3F (Follow-on) batch of 22 satellites, as part of a contract...
Florence Parly, the French Minister of Defence, has accused Russia of using one of its communications satellites, Luch (Olymp-K), to have electronically eavesdropped on the Franco-Italian military ATHENA-FIDUS mission. Having allegedly previously done the same to two...
The Royal Thai Air Force has a history going back to 1913. It operates a potent fighter/fighter bomber force including F-16, Gripen and F-5 jets. And now it is getting into space. The Royal Thai Air Force has ordered a 6U Cubesat as a reconnaissance/Earth...
To keep its missile attack warning defences up to date, the US Air Force has awarded a US$2.9 billion contract to Lockheed Martin for the production of three Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) early warning satellites. They will be positioned...
