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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems completed ground tests on 2021-06-02 of the 12U cubesats equipped with laser communications terminals.
GA-EMS’ Optical Communication Terminals are designed to provide two-way, low-latency, high-bandwidth, secure communication to warfighters across air, ground, and maritime domains.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) was awarded a contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate space-to-air optical communication using GA-EMS’ Laser Interconnect and Networking Communication System (LINCS) and a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper.
GA-EMS and the Space Development Agency are partnering to launch the LINCS system and conduct a series of experiments demonstrating space-based optical communication starting later this summer.
The Space Enterprise Consortium awarded $309,000,000 in June 2020 to Raytheon Technologies, General Atomics, and Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA) to develop EO/IR Weather System prototypes.
General Atomics planned to fly a visible and infrared instrument from EOVista on its EWS spacecraft and contracted Braxton (owned by Parsons Corp.) to develop ground command-and-control architecture.
General Atomics proposed a 15-satellite EWS fleet with roughly 200-kilogram spacecraft and completed an initial design review on 2021-04-29 prior to the article's publication.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems completed the Initial Design Review of the space vehicle and ground segment for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System satellite program.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems plans to deliver a prototype EWS system by 2022 capable of filling gaps in critical weather data for the U.S. military as the DMSP approaches the end of its lifecycle.
DARPA awarded General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems a contract to support the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems plans the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion system preliminary design to demonstrate operational effectiveness and enable the system to be built and validated in low Earth orbit within the next five years.
Over the next 18 months General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will deliver a preliminary design of the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion system.
Hexagon US Federal has been selected to partner with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. to provide geospatial solutions from Hexagon’s Luciad Portfolio in support of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance projects.
The NTP system being designed by GA-EMS for DRACO is intended to allow a rocket to operate in cislunar space, defined as the region outside Earth’s atmosphere to just past the moon’s orbit.
DARPA awarded General Atomics a $22,000,000 contract to develop the nuclear reactor for the DRACO program.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $22,000,000 contract to General Atomics to design a small nuclear reactor for space propulsion on 2021-04-09.
General Atomics selected Rocket Lab on 2021-02-24 to launch an Orbital Test Bed satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload.
General Atomics selected Firefly Aerospace on 2021-02-18 to launch an Orbital Test Bed satellite carrying the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols hosted payload on an Alpha rocket.
The contract to launch the Argos-4 payload was awarded to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center under a Hosted Payload Solutions delivery order on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch the Orbital Test Bed satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System hosted payload.