Weekly Briefing: Military Space

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Military Space Report

ULA CEO Calls For Bigger 'Penalties' For Unsafe Space Operations WASHINGTON: Hot on the heels of an agreement between the Air Force and the FAA to streamline regulations on space launches from military ranges, the head of one of the biggest US launch providers has called for penalizing companies that violate the safety clauses of FAA launch licenses. "The regulations that FAA applies, and the licensing…

SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.

SAR-Sat Startup Umbra Emerges From Stealth Mode The company plans at least 24 satellites, each with a patented SAR antenna that folds up "like origami" for launch and unfurls on orbit, says Umbra COO Todd Master.

MDA Sees EW, Cyber For Future Missile Defense "The future will be a mix of kinetic and non-kinetic. It will be a mix of hard kill and soft kill, because of where the threat is going to. The threat will drive us to do something different," says Vice Adm. Jon Hill, who heads the Missile Defense Agency.

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