Space Force Taps 5 Companies for Space Data Network Connectivity Demos

US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397 million to build threat-tracking 'Flatellites'

Amid the major uptick in national defense space contracts since the Trump Administration announced plans to assemble a "Golden Dome" missile-defense system in orbit, Rocket Lab has landed another deal to contribute to the cause. The California-based company was awarded a $397 million Space Force contract to design, manufacture and launch a fleet of "Flatellites" to augment existing infrastructure's ability to track airborne threats in real time.…

Space Force awards five companies $60 million for multi-vendor satellite network tests

Amazon Leo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space will prototype and test connections to the SpaceX-built data network backbone The post Space Force awards five companies $60 million for multi-vendor satellite network tests appeared first on SpaceNews.

Space Force taps 5 companies for Space Data Network connectivity demos

The Space Force’s acquisition arm has contracted five vendors to demonstrate that its future mega-constellation can effectively share information between systems owned by different companies. Each contractor will receive $12 million under a set of other transaction authority agreements that will fund work for two related efforts, Space Systems Command announced Thursday. Together, the deals are intended to lay the groundwork to field optical las…

Space Force Selects Five Companies To Help Leverage Commercial Satellites As Part Of SDN

The Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded contract worth up to $60 million across five vendors to ensure different commercial satellites can interoperate with the future Space Data […]