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Varda Space Industries Makes History with the First Successful Commercial Space Reentry in Australia
Varda Space Industries, Inc., a microgravity-enabled life sciences company, today announced the successful landing of its second reentry capsule, W-2, and the completion of the company’s second mission. At 6:32 AM Pacific Time today, W-2 touched down at the Koonibba Test Range after six weeks in orbit. The W-2 capsule carried a spectrometer built by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and…
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Sierra Space Ghost: Revolutionizing Global Logistics
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense-tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth® and protect economic freedom in the Orbital Age®, announced today that it has been awarded a competitive, firm-fixed-price contract for the Rocket Experimentation for Global Agile Logistics (REGAL) program by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This new contract…
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Orion Space Solutions Completes Critical Design Review (CDR) for U.S. Warfighter Support
Orion Space Solutions (Orion) and its teammates recently completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) on the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Tetra-5 program. The Tetra-5 mission will demonstrate multi-agent autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations and Docking (RPOD) for on-orbit refueling. “Having completed a successful CDR, Orion Space Solutions and our extended team look…
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Air Force Research Laboratory selects BAE Systems to develop advanced seeker for maritime targeting from air-launched platforms
BAE Systems has received a $12 million Phase 2 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further develop a low cost, all-weather, multi-mode (radar/infrared) open architecture seeker under the Maritime Weapon Innovation Program (MWIP) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (also known as QUICKSINK). “Our seeker technology will greatly increase the warfighter’s capabilities, enabling combatant commanders with a new way…
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