Weekly Briefing: Military Space

The latest military space news and analysis from Breaking Defense. ______________________________________________________________________________

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Military Space Report

Is China really the greatest threat to the US in space, or is Russia? [Video] Seventy-eight percent of survey respondents said China is the greatest threat in space. But our panel of experts is less convinced.

SWAC ponders acquisition strategy, limits of user terminals in future SATCOM plan Asked by Breaking Defense when a final product might be available, SWAC official David Voss quipped, "Not fast enough from what we've been told."

Hawkeye 360, Leidos see synergy in ground target observation data analytics Leidos' investment raises Hawkeye 360's total amount of Series D funding — typically the last round of private investment before a startup goes public — to $150 million.

In new agreement US, Japan team up on counter-hypersonic research The agreement was announced just a day after a North Korean missile test and months after the eye-opening Chinese test of a fractional orbital bombardment system.

New defense strategy may be 'incremental,' but crux is implementation: Ex-officials "Quite often there are ethereal words about a vision of where to go, which is very important," said Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's former top acquisition official. "But I think that needs to be reduced to what are we going to do? When are we going to do it and who's going to do it?"

The major threats and challenges for America in space [Infographics] A first-ever Breaking Defense space survey asked professionals in defense- and space-related fields about what worries them the most, and where America is falling behind.

Myriad ways that commercial satellite capabilities augment DoD space assets [Sponsored] The U.S. Space Force is looking to the commercial satellite industry to make sure that breakthroughs in technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are made available to combined commercial/military satellite networks.

Space Force plans multiple hosted payloads for GEO belt monitoring Space System Command's overarching goal is to develop "diverse" capabilities for space domain awareness across all orbits.

Russian ASAT debris imperils DoD, NRO sats, while ISS risks increase: COMSPOC The COMSPOC analysis shows that the bulk of the some 1,500 debris pieces being tracked by Space Command's 18th Space Control Squadron will de-orbit within about three years time.

L3Harris streamlines with a focus on missile defense, space The reorg eliminates the company's Aviation Systems segment, which is responsible commercial aviation solutions, systems, networks and pilot training.

Miles above top secret: Does the US classify too much in space? [Video] A quarter of experts on space policy debate whether the US needs to be more open about its space capabilities.

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