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AFRL Ponders Solar Power Beaming For Lunar Patrol Sat Satellites and facilities in cislunar space could very well become the first customers of beamed power as it gradually comes on line, an Aerospace study finds.

Space Command Widens Embrace Of Allies "We're looking internally to my headquarters, as well as here at Peterson, to bring some of our great allies and partners into our staff and into our operations and processes here at the Combatant Command level as well," said SPACECOM head Gen. James Dickinson.

AFRL's Newest Lab Aims At Building Things In Space One of the first projects the new DeSel lab will work on is testing structures for a futuristic capability that could be enabled by on-orbit assembly and manufacturing: space-based solar power.

China Set To Beat US, Russia Again In Space Launch Race China has launched 29 satellites through Sept. 30, compared 27 launched by the US. The US has far more satellites already in space.

Fixing Space Acquisition Air Force's 'Harshest Fight:' AFSec Barrett "I'd like to say that we've got that resolved, but it's not nearly resolved," Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said of space acquisition.

Israel To Get Direct Access To SBIRS Sats & More F-35 Capabilities; Esper Visiting TEL AVIV: The United States, pressed by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz In Washington last week, will grant Israel direct access to highly classified satellites such as the missile detection birds known as SBIRS and ensure Israel gets critical defense platforms in a very short time by using production slots planned for the U.S armed forces.…

DoD Kicks Off New Hypersonic Program; F-18 To Get Hypersonic Cruise Missile The Pentagon will retain strict security protocols to ensure "we're not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs" said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office

Air Force To Try Space-Based 3D Printing: Roper The US, Russia and China all could be building things in space within 15 years, an IDA study found.

Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021 In this fall's Project Convergence exercises, it took a heroic effort just to get the network to work at all. Next year, the Army wants the network to function in the face of electronic attack.

Microsoft Boosts Space Services, Partnerships SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX would, "where it makes sense," help Microsoft Azure Space sell its data services to current and future customers.

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