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Solstar Space has been selected by AFWERX for an SBIR Phase I contract worth $74,752 to address challenges for the Department of the Air Force to connect spacecraft in LEO and beyond.
After the Air Force reviewed applications for the second phase, Ed Dwight was rated last among finalists at 26th.
Ed Dwight applied to be a NASA astronaut in 1963 and was recommended as a potential astronaut by the Air Force.
Dwight spent two years being identified as the likely first Black astronaut and started Air Force training for NASA.
The U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane launched on its seventh mission on 2023-12-28.
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Common 50 High Performance (C50HP) solid rocket motor completed a static fire test at the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex.
Ed Dwight completed the ARPS program in 1963 and was recommended by the U.S. Air Force for the NASA Astronaut Corps but was not selected for NASA.
Ed Dwight is a 90-year-old former U.S. Air Force pilot who was selected in 1961 to be the first Black astronaut candidate by the Kennedy administration.
Ed Dwight completed the ARPS program in 1963 and was recommended by the U.S. Air Force for the NASA Astronaut Corps but was not selected.
Tomorrow.io has secured about $20,000,000 in contracts from the U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit to support development of commercial space-based weather sensors.
The U.S. Air Force ordered more than 100 T7 robots to support explosive ordnance disposal missions worldwide.
David Salvagnini served in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years and retired in May 2005 as a communications and computer systems officer.
The Department of the Air Force EIS will examine using Space Launch Complex 37 and a proposed new site SLC-50 located between SLC-37 and SLC-40 for Starship launches.
Plumb questioned the rationale for transferring the GMTI mission from the Air Force to intelligence agencies solely because it utilizes space.
AFWERX selected Solstar Space for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract worth $1,248,735 to address challenges for the Department of the Air Force.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that the service is seeking a distributed architecture that blends satellites, drones, and data networks for comprehensive ground surveillance.
The Department of the Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are developing the space sensors for GMTI.
The SBIR Phase II contract awarded to Assured Space Access focuses on sensor technologies to advance Space Domain Awareness and deliver solutions addressing Department of the Air Force challenges.
The Department of the Air Force began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018.
Portal Space Systems developed its solar thermal approach building on NASA and U.S. Air Force work from the 1990s and early 2000s and incorporating additively manufactured components using new alloys.