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White House names nominees for SPACECOM, Navy No. 2 - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON ― The White House has formally named its choices to lead US Space Command and serve as the second-highest ranking officer in the US Navy as part of an officer package sent to the Senate. Lt. Gen. David Miller, currently the deputy Space Force chief responsible for requirements and budget planning, has been nominated for a fourth star, according to Tuesday’s notice, and a SPACECOM spokesperson today confirmed that he was nominated to lead the command. If confirmed, he would replace Gen
DIU, Space Force team up to kick-start buys of commercial sats for monitoring GEO - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Space Force have joined forces to more rapidly develop and field next-generation, commercially developed satellites to monitor geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), according to the service. Under the joint effort, DIU’s Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R) project is now going to serve as a feeder for the Space Force’s nascent RG-XX program to replace the venerable Geosynchronous Space
Air, Space Forces pick up research pace for orbital cargo delivery - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The Air and Space Forces over the past year have been picking up the pace of their multi-tiered research initiative aimed at developing an unusual idea seemingly straight from science fiction: the capability to rapidly deliver cargo into global hot zones by launching it through space. But while the Pentagon was originally looking primarily at using large, reusable rockets for the delivery of goods, the military is now shifting its attention towards smaller reentry capsules. The bi-s
Space Force picks Texas as US home for trinational DARC space radar network - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON ― The Space Force has selected Lake Kickapoo, Texas, as the “preferred” location for the third and final site of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) space tracking network. “Pending final planning approvals,” construction at the site “is expected to begin in 2027 following contract award and completion of required approvals,” according to a Space Force press release on Wednesday. “The site is projected to complete civil construction in 2029, followed by technical testing a
White House has lofty space launch ambitions, but experts question price tag - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — While publicly singing the praises of the recent Trump administration policy designed to build up US capacity for transportation “to, from and within space,” government and industry sources privately are asking one big question: How will these ambitious plans be funded? Specifically for the Space Force, the White House’s push for the Pentagon to “pursue” commercial space mobility and logistics services also puts more fuel on the fire of the long-running debate between the service an
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