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SDA Awards $3.5B in Tranche 3 Tracking Layer Contracts

The Space Development Agency awarded $3.5B in contracts on Friday to continue building the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)—-a  missile-tracking, military-supporting, multi-layer constellation that’s been several years in the making.

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Starfish, Impulse Partner on Remora RPO Mission

Starfish Space and Impulse Space teamed up quietly this year to conduct an RPO demo in orbit, bringing spacecraft to within 1,250 meters of each other autonomously.  The mission, called Remora, proves RPO missions do not require expensive hardware or custom-built spacecraft, as has historically been the case. Starfish added one camera and its software […]

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Overview Energy Emerges From Stealth

Going off-Earth to collect sunlight allows solar power to be a more reliable energy source for terrestrial industries—including at night, Overview officials say. 

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BlackSky Beams Gen-3 Images Home at Record Speed

Less than 24 hours after launch, BlackSky’s ($BKSY) latest Gen-3 imaging sat had deployed, captured very high-resolution images from orbit, and sent those images home for delivery into a customer’s hands.

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Project Kuiper Becomes Amazon Leo

The program was known by the Project Kuiper “code name” (a nod to Kuiper Belt objects, like asteroids and comets), but is now a program with 150+ sats in orbit. Many more sats are planned to bring internet to the masses, with the initial constellation expected to number 3,200 spacecraft.