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Space Money: Assured Access to Space Starts on the Ground for $4 Billion
It’s one of the biggest contracts that Space Systems Command has awarded that you haven’t heard about - the $4 billion Space Force Range Contract awarded to Amentum. The price tag is big because so i…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Space Power: Key To Trump’s Strategy Is In The Space Force Budget
What does the Golden Dome and the plus-up in money for the Space Force and other defense-related space systems tell us about the Trump Administration’s national defense strategy? And is it sustainabl…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Space Power: Air Marshal Godfrey - Delivering Allied Space Capability
This week the U.S. Space Force concluded its largest service-wide exercise that also included officers from Allied and Partner nations in leadership positions. Lessons from the exercise will be used …
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Space Power: Can We Ditch The Feudal Era?
Now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed Lt. Shawn Bratton’s fourth star and his nomination to become the next U.S. Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations, there will be a new Deputy Chief of Space…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Space Money: $613B - What’s Behind the Big New Number?
According to the Space Foundation the Global Space Economy grew by 7.8% to reach a valuation of $613 billion dollars in 2024. What’s behind the new big number? Laura Winter speaks with Lesley Conn, t…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Space Competition: Amid US Budget Woes, China Pushes Expansion
While the White House and Congress wrangle over NASA’s budget and the fate of the Space Launch System, China is unwavering in laying the foundation for its expansion into the space domain, including …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Space Money: Defense Budget, Markets, and Champagne
With Wall Street indices at new highs, plus a roughly $40B FY2026 budget for the U.S. Space Force, and the tens of billions the Trump Administration wants to spend on the missile defense program "Gol…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Space Power: Space Force ‘26 Budget: “ A One-Time Sugar High”
The Trump Administration’s 2026 budget for the U.S. Space Force, counting the Big Beautiful Bill’s funding, comes to about $40 billion dollars. Does this unorthodox, difficult to follow, bifurcated l…
Published on 4 months ago
Space Power: Commercial Satellite Imagery For Intelligence & Operations Is At Risk
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said that in preparation for Operation Midnight Hammer, two Defense Threat Reduction Agency analysts studied activities at the Fordo Uranium…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Space Competition: Down Under Companies, Leaders Target US Space & Defense Market
As Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for additions to the 2021 AUKUS Agreement that would strengthen the security pact in the space domain, Australian space companies began a to…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago