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Northrop Grumman completed ground tests in December of technology for space-based solar power and plans a space demonstration in 2025 under a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Raytheon BBN was awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop a rocket cargo mission planning and Command and Control system for the USAF.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space won a four-year, $8,700,000 contract on 2023-01-17 to develop mission planning software for the U.S. Air Force rocket cargo program.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a $406,000,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate for the Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements (InSITE) program.
The optical sensors were developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory under a 2019 agreement with the U.S. Air Force.
The U.S. Air Force began collecting weather imagery in 2020 with the former GOES-13 satellite, which NOAA launched in 2006 and retired in 2018.
BAE Systems received a $12,000,000 Phase 2 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to further develop a low-cost, all-weather, multi-mode (radar/infrared) open-architecture seeker under the Maritime Weapon Innovation Program Joint Capability Technology Demonstration.
Most of the training infrastructure used by the Space Force was inherited from the Air Force.
Cognitive Space has seen increased interest from the Air Force and other entities.
COSMIC-2 is a joint program of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Taiwan’s National Space Organization, NOAA, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that launched in 2019.
Rogers and Cooper wrote the language to establish a Space Corps under the Department of the Air Force in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
Steven Kwast retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2019 after serving 33 years.
Jack Shelton and a group of space attorneys, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory, are establishing the Association of Commercial Space Professionals as a public benefit company to offer affordable regulatory and legal resources for space startups.
The SWOT satellite was launched on 2022-12-16, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The U.S. Air Force had planned to buy only 10 Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) satellites but Congress compelled the service to buy WGS-11 and is adding funds 2022 presumably to buy WGS-12.
The 2023 NDAA does not authorize a Space National Guard and would consider establishing the Space Force as a single component with full-time and part-time members as proposed by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched an experiment in 2020 aboard the Air Force’s X-37B space plane that captured sunlight and converted it into direct current electrical energy.
An agreement signed on 2022-05-03 with the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) under the Brazilian Air Force specifies that HANBIT-TLV will carry onboard the SISNAV inertial navigation system during a test flight.
The SWOT satellite launched on 2022-12-16 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.