April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
...of private space transportation companies in the US have some degree of sponsorship by the US government through NASA or the Pentagon. A similar situation exists for spaceports; the private Kodiak spaceport, for example, is somewhat supported through...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... Force, USSF, Army, Navy, Marines, NATO), civilian agencies (NASA, DARPA, FEMA), and others including the Pentagon, Space and Missile Systems Center and Air Force Research Lab. This gives him a unique perspective...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... for everybody. These companies include Kayhan Space, Vyoma, Slingshot Aerospace, Privateer Space, LeoLabs, Astroscale. The Pentagon s SDA has been soliciting pitches for technologies that will be used to build a network of satellites in low Earth...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... is a need for this capability, as Nathon Strout, an editor for C4ISRNET, wrote in an article in 2020 mentioning “even the Pentagon wanting help for its satellites to talk to one another”. If satellite designs were developed with a software-first...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... warheads and spy satellites. The US Space Shuttle was in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks...
18 November 2015
Elon Musk's SpaceX may partner with the U.S. government
... contract is nearing its expiration date. One of the major setbacks faced by ULA recently was the new Pentagon ban on Russian RD-180 rocket engines, often used by ULA in the past. SpaceX, in turn, is able to provide a much...
