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SDA Missile Tracking A 'Strategic Win' For L3Harris, SpaceX ""Where will the money for this program come from, and will it means less money for the Space Force and all the existing space programs of record?" asks Secure World Foundation's Brian Weeden.

Starship Troopers? TRANSCOM-SpaceX Accord Raises Policy Eyebrows Point-to-point space transport is "a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint," Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.

US Must Weigh 'Strategic Impacts' Of Arming The Heavens: Aerospace "I think probably the biggest single thing that I know Gen. Raymond is working on … is really fleshing out that long-term vision for the Space Force," Justin Johnson, acting deputy assistant secretary for space policy says.

Space Force Nears Year Mark, Acquisition Remains A Quagmire The Space Development Agency "could easily die away without anybody missing it," said former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.

Space Force Fears COVID Loss Of Commercial Startups: Gen. Thompson "I'm not sure yet if we figured out a way to ensure part of that (commercial market) will survive," Gen. DT Thompson said.

Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station.

AFRL's Big Ambitions For Lunar Patrol Satellites "We are interested in technologies to support wide area search, narrow field tracking, and autonomous space domain awareness," says CHPS program manager Capt. David Buehler.

SMC Saves $53M Reusing SpaceX Boosters For GPS III SpaceX has launched with a previously used Falcon 9 booster 38 times, says Michael Ellis, director at SpaceX's National Security Space Launch director.

SIA Calls For Space Traffic Rules ASAP SIA says there could be as many as 107,671 satellites on orbit by 2029. There are now slightly fewer than 3,000.

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence The Army's future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.

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