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Herndon, Virginia-based government contractor Akima held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 10 to mark the opening of its new 35,000-square-foot office in Huntsville, Alabama. Also known as “The Rocket City,” Huntsville is home to Redstone Arsenal, whose various tenants Akima said Thursday it supports. Akima President and CEO Bill Monet, a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, noted […] More
Jared Summers Jared Summers, senior vice president and chief technology officer at LMI, said building Golden Dome into an effective missile defense shield requires “blending the reach of space with the agility of terrestrial networks.” Register now for the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 GovCon International and Global Defense Summit on Oct. 16, to join a […] More
Tony Frazier got into the satellite imagery business in 2010 when he joined GeoEye as a senior vice president, but he’s been a proven quantity within the consulting and government contracting industries for over three decades. He began his career at Bain & Company and has rocketed upward ever since through senior technology and leadership […] More
Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturer Apex raised $200 million in its Series D financing round led by technology investment company Interlagos. Apex said Friday the latest funding round brings its valuation to over $1 billion and reflects strong customer demand for large-scale constellations in low Earth orbit. Supporting Government Customers Building Next-Gen Satellite Constellations “From day […] More
Varda Space Industries, LeoLabs and Anduril have announced a successful joint demonstration to track, monitor and report orbital maneuvers ahead of a hypersonic reentry. The test involved Varda’s W-3 vehicle, which returned to Earth on May 13 after performing a series of orbital maneuvers, according to a joint press release published Monday. Real-Time Tracking and […] More
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and Kepler Communications US have demonstrated bi-directional air-to-space optical communications between an airborne optical communication terminal, or OCT, and a Space Development Agency Tranche 0-compatible Kepler satellite in low Earth orbit. Advancing Air to Space Optical Communications The demonstration validated the ability to transmit secure, high-data-rate connectivity between airborne and space-based assets […] More
LeoLabs is attracting strong investor attention as defense demand for its radar systems accelerates, The Wall Street Journal reported. Tony Frazier, LeoLabs chief executive and a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the company is seeing “a ton of interest” from venture firms as it expands beyond space technology into defense applications. The Menlo Park, California-based […] More
Rocket Lab has officially opened Launch Complex 3, a dedicated facility for testing, launching and landing its reusable rocket Neutron, on Wallops Island, Virginia. The company said Thursday it held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, where Launch Complex 3 is located. “Launch Complex 3 is our commitment to providing […] More
American Systems, provider of mission essential and information engineering services to federal agencies, will welcome students from Purdue University as part of an effort to build the next generation of space domain leaders. The company said Monday that it is partnering with Purdue to support the university’s Data Mine of the Rockies, or DMR, initiative, […] More
Noblis has launched two pioneering research projects to the International Space Station. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Monday the Helix Horizons Astral DNA Storage Endeavor and the Synthetic consortia Integrated Production System, or ScIPS, arrived at the ISS onboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The mission, supported by the ISS National Laboratory and Voyager Technologies, which provided the experimental […] More
IBM and NASA have released Surya, a new open-source artificial intelligence foundation model that interprets high-resolution solar observation data and supports space weather forecasting research. The new AI model, available on Hugging Face, is designed to help experts plan for solar storms and their impact on telecommunications, GPS navigation, satellites and power grids amid humanity’s […] More
Amentum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Jacobs Technology, has secured the potential $4 billion Space Force Range Contract by Space Systems Command to support the modernization of the Launch and Test Range System. The 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract requires providing systems engineering, cybersecurity, logistics, sustainment and operations support to Assured Access to Space, SSC’s largest organization, […] More
