Air Force Research Lab agrees to support Stratolaunch’s first hypersonic flight test Stratolaunch, the company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen more than a decade ago, says it’s won a contract from… Read More
Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s… Read More
Air Force tech competition gives a lift to concepts for fast and furious ‘flying cars’ The U.S. Air Force’s tech incubator has given the go-ahead for 11 design concepts aimed at pushing the frontier for… Read More
ULA and SpaceX win shares of future national security launches; Blue Origin loses out The U.S. Space Force designated United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of a multibillion-dollar competition for national security… Read More
Air Force goes with BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform to track impact of COVID-19 BlackSky, a satellite data venture with offices in Seattle, says it’s won a U.S. Air Force contract to track the… Read More
Space Force will test solar power transmission during X-37B space plane’s next mystery flight When a Boeing-built X-37B space plane is sent into orbit this month for the test program’s sixth flight, it will… Read More
Xplore wins award from Air Force to study navigational tools for moon missions Seattle-based Xplore has won a $50,000 award from the Air Force to develop an architecture for keeping track of missions… Read More
Air Force strikes a deal with Boeing for fixing KC-46 tankers — and releases $882M in payments The Air Force says it reached two agreements with Boeing today, aimed at making the final fixes in camera systems… Read More
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk touts Starlink satellites and robotic fighter jets at Air Warfare Symposium SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took a rare deep dive into the workings of his company’s Starlink broadband satellite operation in… Read More
Air Force and Blue Origin team up on a new California test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is partnering with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a new… Read More
Rocket Lab’s Virginia launch pad opens for business, with Air Force as first customer Rocket Lab today celebrated the opening of a launch complex on the Virginia coast, half a world away from its… Read More
GAO sides with Blue Origin in dispute over Air Force’s multibillion-dollar launch contract process The Government Accountability Office is agreeing with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture that the Air Force needs… Read More
Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane lands after spending 780 days in orbit The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane landed today after spending a record-setting 780 days in orbit testing hush-hush technologies… Read More
Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final… Read More
Blue Origin protests launch contract rules as it competes with SpaceX, ULA, Northrop Grumman Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is protesting the rules of the game for awarding future national security… Read More
Government officials are reaching out to commercial ventures for space race revival RENTON, Wash. — Fifty years after the landmark Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space… Read More
Blue Origin, ULA and Northrop Grumman weigh in on multibillion-dollar SpaceX rocket lawsuit Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and subsidiaries of United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman are intervening in… Read More
SpaceX files lawsuit against the federal government — but asks to keep the details under wraps SpaceX today filed a lawsuit against the federal government, apparently protesting a contract bidding process — but asked the court… Read More
Olis Robotics wins $50K from Air Force to study options for satellite-servicing robots Seattle-based Olis Robotics says it has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force to lay out a plan… Read More
‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander on the first leg of its journey to the… Read More
President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of… Read More
Surprise! Boeing hands Air Force the keys to not just one, but two KC-46 tanker jets Boeing executives today added an extra twist to what was expected to be a cut-and-dried ceremony to hand over its… Read More
After four delays, SpaceX launches Air Force’s first next-gen GPS III satellite SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a next-generation GPS satellite into orbit today for the U.S. Air Force, marking a couple… Read More
SpaceX wins $28.7M contract from Air Force for data connectivity research SpaceX has won a $28.7 million fixed-price contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for experiments in data connectivity involving… Read More
Trump authorizes revival of U.S. Space Command, with Space Force on agenda President Donald Trump today authorized the Pentagon to set up the U.S. Space Command as its own combatant command, in… Read More
Air Force sets up $100,000 VQ-Prize contest for space awareness visualization The U.S. Air Force is looking for a few good apps to visualize satellites and other objects in Earth orbit —… Read More
Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and ULA win Air Force’s backing for future rockets The U.S. Air Force says Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance have won its go-ahead for the development… Read More
Transcript: ‘Chief slowdown officer’ Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management tips When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke today at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, his head… Read More
Jeff Bezos sells the Air Force on Blue Origin rockets and Amazon Web Services Billionaire Jeff Bezos made a subtle sales pitch for Amazon Web Services as well as the New Glenn rockets being… Read More
Boeing gets $2.9B contract for 18 Air Force KC-46 tankers as it nears first deliveries News Brief: The U.S. Air Force today awarded Boeing a $2.9 billion contract for 18 more KC-46A tanker aircraft and… Read More
