Space Operations
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The Defense Department was not the only agency shifting control of its satellites this month.
August 16, 2022 -
The new director of the lab's Naval Center for Space Technology, Steven Meier, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio to talk more.
August 16, 2022 -
Everybody’s heard the term “space junk.” You’re probably aware there’s a bunch of it and that it’s a risk to satellites. The Space Force tracks tens of thousands of pieces of debris every day, but that’s only the big stuff. There are an estimated 100 million pieces of smaller bits — ten centimeters or less — that we can’t see from Earth with current technology.
August 16, 2022 -
National Guard space units say they are misaligned when relying on the Air Force.
July 08, 2022 -
GAO doesn't opine on whether Huntsville was the right or wrong decision. But the office says the Air Force made some fundamental missteps
June 15, 2022 -
The Space Force organization is trying to avoid reinventing the wheel by buying technologies already developed by business.
June 14, 2022 -
The Air Force left out critical best practices in selecting the new headquarters.
June 03, 2022 -
Senators seek to establish National Guard for space missions, correcting what they see as a "mistake" in Space Force's initial establishment.
May 16, 2022 -
Some lawmakers felt political influence decided the location more than feasibility.
May 11, 2022 -
Project Maven has been run out of the office of the secretary of defense since its inception in 2017.
April 26, 2022 -
A new report from the Defense Intelligence Agency outlines some of the biggest space threats from the last two years.
April 12, 2022 -
The Air Force suggests reaching out to military health clinics and on-base legal advisors.
March 25, 2022 -
Omnibus bill adds more than $1 billion in facility upkeep funding, an area DoD has knowingly neglected in its budgets for at least a decade.
March 21, 2022 -
The latest intel authorization bill carries implications for security clearance reform, commercial geospatial-intelligence imagery efforts and what kind of work intelligence analysts can consider after leaving the U.S. government.
March 15, 2022 -
U.S. Space Command is dealing with billionaires, rules of engagement and staffing up its offices.
March 08, 2022
