The DoD Is Ramping Up Its Commercial Satellite Spend
Military users already spent $660M through the contract since 2023.
Stories about operations in low-Earth orbit.
Military users already spent $660M through the contract since 2023.
“This has just emerged as an opportunity, and also happens to be a pretty big market in and of itself.”
The company says their aim is to empower terrestrial telecommunication providers rather than compete with them.
Designed in part by Apple designer Peter Russell-Clarke, Haven-1 looks more like a resort than an orbiting labratory.
The defense tech startup announced Tuesday that it will use Apex’s satellite buses for missions ranging from space situational awareness to missile warning and tracking, according to a press release.
Intel collected by non-Earth imaging (NEI) provides greater space domain awareness for defense and commercial assets on orbit.
“Some of us joke that we’re actually a software company with a network.”
NASA officials decided that the two astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner on a test flight to the ISS will return on a SpaceX crew Dragon. Their eight-day mission will wind up lasting eight months.
The two contracts are vital to the US military’s mission of greater resilience in space. But they also help fund TrustPoint’s commercial ambitions.
The size of this year’s conference meant that the press wires were a fire hose of companies unveiling innovative technologies, new partnerships, and additional funding streams.
Out are the days of onesie twosies large GEO satcom birds, and in are the mega-constellations in LEO, consisting of an army of hundreds or thousands of smaller satellites that provide ultra-fast connectivity.
Sierra Space just blew up its most advanced space station technology to date. The explosion was an overwhelming success.