June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... 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 ...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... vehicle (nine missions in 2014 alone). ULA plans to use growing demand from the Pentagon to develop more rockets, make them less costly, and re-enter the commercial market. In order to do that, ULA plans to introduce a new launch vehicle...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... case for, Solar Power Satellites (SPS). Recent studies by NASA, the US Department of Energy and the Pentagon demonstrate that SPS is a concept whose time is near. The missing component is combined government/private industry commitment. Space solar...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... (Air 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
... safe 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...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... capable missiles, nuclear 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...
