As of August 2024, there were reportedly more than 700 unidentified objects in the Space-Track catalogue maintained by the ...

SDA awards $3.5B to Lockheed, L3Harris, Northrop and Rocket Lab for Tranche 3 PWSA Tracking Layer missile-warning satellites.

The SDA, part of the US Space Force, launches new generations of its systems roughly every two years. Tranche 1 was built by ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency announced Dec. 19 it awarded about $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies to build 72 missile-tracking satellites for the next phase of a low Earth orbit ...

The Space Development Agency has awarded L3Harris Technologies a nearly $1 billion contract to build satellites that would ...

NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...

WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Space Force continues to refine its plan to leverage commercial services, a top general said he expects space domain awareness to be one area where private sector capabilities ...

Cutting space-tracking efforts risks collisions — and U.S. leadership in commercializing outer space. September 1, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDTToday at 7:00 a.m. EDT ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency selected three companies to build 18 satellites each for its space-based missile warning, tracking and defense constellation. The satellites will make up a ...

The idea is to build three deep-space tracking stations in the United States, Britain, and Australia, with the first to be constructed and operational in Australia by 2026, a second in Britain with ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s not just satellites tracking tropical activity from above – astronauts onboard the International Space Station use their bird’s eye view to aid researchers on the ground.