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The Defense Innovation Unit partnered with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Weather Systems Branch to develop ground, air, and space-based prototypes for global weather sensing.
Rhea Space Activity received Small Business Innovation Research awards from the U.S. Air Force to develop a "lunar intelligence dashboard" for monitoring spacecraft activities in cislunar space.
Terran Orbital was awarded a $15,200,000 contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Axient Corp. won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 to manage small-satellite military experiments.
Terran Orbital was awarded a $15,200,000 contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Axient, which is based in Huntsville, Alabama, a $25,000,000 task order in September 2023 for integrated space experiments to be performed over the next three years.
Axient won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 worth up to $25,000,000 for integrated space experiments.
The September 2023 $25,000,000 task order to Axient from the Air Force Research Laboratory is to be performed over the next three years.
Axient awarded BlackSky a $2,000,000 task order in November 2023 on behalf of the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a 2018 contract worth $7,200,000,000 for up to 22 GPS IIIF satellites.
The US Air Force awarded a $102 million contract to SpaceX in January 2022 for developing a point-to-point space transportation system.
The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act blocked procurement of WGS-12 until the Department of the Air Force confirmed that commercial satellites could not perform the same service.
Viasat signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman on 2024-02-29 to support an Air Force Research Laboratory experiment using broadband satellite internet to connect military vehicles and aircraft.
Northrop Grumman is working under a $95 million, four-year contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory in June 2023 to design, develop, and test three prototype satellite terminals that use multiple commercial and military communication systems.
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program, nicknamed Global Lightning.
Viasat will provide its ViaSat-3 satellite communications network to enable military users to access high-bandwidth satellite internet connectivity from existing U.S. Air Force aircraft or ground vehicles as part of its contract with Northrop Grumman.
The Air Force tested the Program 437AP with a camera system designed to photograph satellites during its lofted trajectory in the 1960s.
The Air Force aimed for Program 437 to intercept Soviet fractional or multi-orbit bombardment systems that the CIA believed the Soviet Union was developing.
The Air Force added missile launch capabilities to Johnston Island in the 1950s.
The United States Air Force operated the nuclear-armed Program 437 anti-satellite weapon from Johnston Island from 1962 to 1975.