Government/Military
May 7, 2024
Rocket Lab selected its subcontractors for its work for the Space Development Agency (SDA), announcing deals with CesiumAstro, Mynaric, SEAKR Engineering, Collins Aerospace, Redwire Space, and Parsons Corporation. Rocket Lab is building 18 satellites for the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture under a $515 million contract announced in late 2023. The satellites will be part…
May 3, 2024
Northrop Grumman and Umbra have been awarded small contracts by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue to the second phase of a program designed to collect data from radar-equipped satellites flying in formation and develop innovative algorithms to process the data for military applications. Umbra’s contract under the Distributed Radar Image Foundation Technology (DRIFT)…
May 3, 2024
L3Harris will supply the infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) FOO Fighter satellites. L3Harris received a contract from prime contractor Millennium Space Systems, the company announced May 2. Under the deal, L3Harris will build eight infrared payloads. They will be manufactured in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The SDA awarded Millennium, a Boeing company, potential $414…
May 2, 2024
BAE Systems was selected by NASA to develop the Atmospheric Composition instrument (ACX) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite constellation. BAE Systems announced the contract on May 1. GeoXO is a constellation of three satellites that will succeed NOAA's current GEO Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R). The mission…