Author: Frank Wolfe
March 26, 2024
More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service, U.S. Space Force, in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service, the U.S. Cyber Force, which would initially come under the Department of the Army. “In the U.S. military, an officer who had never fired a rifle would…
March 21, 2024
By the end of next year, Boeing's small satellite plant in El Segundo, California, may reach an annual production capacity of 60 satellites. In 2018, Boeing bought Millennium Space Systems, which has grown from 200 employees to 1,000, including 800 at Boeing’s small satellite plant in El Segundo. “Millennium has 100 percent success on its 15…
March 21, 2024
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said that it has ironed out wrinkles in Link 16 delivery from space to military forces over existing radios. Last November, SDA said that it had debuted the provision of Link 16 data from space with three Tranche 0 Transport Layer York Space Systems satellites that demonstrated network entry through space to…
March 12, 2024
The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a March 8 briefing with reporters. “We made a [fiscal 2025] tradeoff in the Air Force between procurement and research and development in order to move forward as fast as…