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Space was the place, including for starry-eyed optimism: 5 Stories From 2021 Among all the space action over the past year, AFRL's push to expand military space operations to cislunar space — the vast volume of space between the Earth's outer orbit and that of the Moon — and beyond has been a gift that keeps on giving.

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Bringin' home the Space-BACN: DARPA kicks off laser link project Fourteen vendors have been chosen to complete designs for two different pieces of an optical terminal that can connect incompatible LEO sats.

AFRL's Arachne achieves power conversion, chasing sci-fi-esque space-based solar power Arachne's initially envisioned launch date of 2024 now has been pushed back to early 2025 — not because of any internal problems, but because of the difficulty of getting a ride to Low Earth Orbit.

Space Force moves closer to replacing aging DMSP weather sats DoD's effort to replace the DMSP polar orbiting constellation, first launched in the 1960s, is a historic tale tale of acquisition woe.

Silicon Valley warns the Pentagon: 'Time is running out' After years of research and development efforts, tech startups want to see the Pentagon commit to real production work.

A resilient, layered space-based architecture is well suited to missile warning systems [Sponsored] While the GEO-based Space-Based Infrared System continues to serve US missile-warning needs, emerging threats and an increasingly contested space environment may benefit from a layered architecture in multiple orbits.

Exclusive: Space acquisition shop set for another re-org, following Congress-backed SWAC model The Space Warfighting Analysis Center has started laying out force designs for critical operations, but will SSC be able to transition those blueprints into real-world acquisition programs, Lockheed Martin's Eric Brown asked.

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