Iridium Preps 5 ‘NEXT’ Satellites for May 19 Launch From Vandenberg AFB

A day without an American presence in the space domain would be “catastrophic” to the country’s “prosperity, defense and security,” argued Gen. Stephen Whiting, who leads U.S. Space Command. The SPACECOM commander says that due to shifts over the years, the strategic environment has evolved so that the world is heavily reliant on the communications derived

Rob Rainhart, formerly chief operating officer at HawkEye 360, was named president of the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered radio frequency and satellite systems developer. He will oversee programs, product development, technology delivery and human resources functions and guide the company’s strategy for expanding into the RF data and analytics market, HawkEye 360 said Tuesday. Rainhart started his

The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago reflected in what