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May- 2026 -

14 May

TrustPoint to Demo No-GPS Navigation Tech for US Space Force

Aerospace component firm TrustPoint has received a $4-million contract to test the capabilities of its positioning, navigation, and timing network for the US Space Force.

6 May

Americas

US President Donald Trump presenting the government's 'Golden Dome' missile defense plan at the Oval Office

Rojoef Manuel

Booz Allen Hamilton Wins Golden Dome Contract for Space Interceptor Prototype

Booz Allen Hamilton has received a contract to assemble and supply a testbed missile interceptor solution for the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command.

5 May

Americas

A Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Polar satellite

Rojoef Manuel

US Polar Missile Defense Satellite Program On Track With Key Sensor Delivery

Northrop Grumman has taken delivery of the prime sensor for the US Space Force’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar initiative.

5 May

Space

Inder Singh Bisht

US Space Force Awards $3.2B for Space-Based Missile Interceptor Prototypes

The US Space Force has awarded contracts worth $3.2 billion to 12 companies to develop prototypes for the Space-Based Interceptor program.

Apr- 2026 -

29 April

Americas

Christine Casimiro

Raytheon Delivers Second Missile-Warning Sensor to US Space Force

Raytheon has delivered its second sensor to Lockheed Martin, the lead contractor for the US Space Force’s mid-latitude missile warning and tracking satellite program.

21 April

Americas

Telescopes operated by the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex are shown on Maui, Hawaii, Sept. 16, 2025. The MSSC is located on Haleakala, is the third best place on Earth from which to view space, and the best location for daytime space domain awareness. GBOSS upgrades to the legacy Ground Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System at the White Sands Missile Range were completed and reached operational acceptance on June 27, 2025, and the upgrades to the MSSC in Hawaii are currently underway. The GBOSS system was built to continue to meet the Space Surveillance Network mission needs and to increase SDA by more accurately identifying and tracking resident space objects in orbit. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman noted, “GBOSS improves our ability to map the space operating environment. The upgrade not only improves sensitivity and boosts the number of objects we can track, it also takes advantage of data provided by commercial sensors to help with our unquenchable thirst for more SDA data.” (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Laura Anderson)

Rojoef Manuel

US Space Force Expands Orbit Tracking With New Ground Sensor in Hawaii

The US Space Force has approved upgrades for its Ground-Based Optical Sensor System at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii, expanding its ability to track objects across Earth’s orbits.

20 April

Americas

Lockheed Martin’s GPS III SV08 will join the US Space Force’s operational GPS constellation in orbit.

Jodesz Gavilan

Lockheed Wins $105M US Space Force GPS Ground Control Upgrade

Lockheed Martin has secured a $105-million US Space Force contract to sustain and upgrade its Global Positioning System (GPS) ground control network.

14 April

Americas

A Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket launches the Department of War Space Test Program S29A (STP-S29A) mission from Space Launch Complex 8 at Vandenberg Space Force Base Calif., April 7, 2026. The STP-S29A mission carried a variety of DoW, U.S. Space Force, and academic institution payloads into orbit, marking the 23rd launch of 2026 from Vandenberg. (Courtesy photo by Northrop Grumman)

Rojoef Manuel

Northrop Grumman Launches US Space Force Experiments on Minotaur IV

Northrop Grumman has launched the US Space Force’s Space Test Program S29A mission module aboard its Minotaur IV rocket, deploying multiple experimental payloads into low Earth orbit.

10 April

Americas

U.S. Space Force 1st Lt. Tia Scoggan, weapons and tactics section chief for the 18th Space Defense Squadron Det. 1, looks at a computer screen at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 5, 2022. 18 SDS Det. 1 provides timely and actionable Space Domain Awareness (SDA) for emergent and existing threats that are identified by the Joint Task Force-Space Defense’s National Space Defense Center as on-orbit threats. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tiana Williams)

Rojoef Manuel

Pentagon Funds $1.8B Andromeda Program for Space Tracking Network

The US Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth up to $1.843 billion to multiple companies to develop next-generation space domain awareness capabilities under the US Space Force’s Andromeda program.

10 April

Americas

Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance telescope operated by the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron.

Jodesz Gavilan

US Space Force Awards L3Harris $150M to Modernize Space Surveillance

The US Space Force has awarded L3Harris a $150-million contract to sustain and modernize ground systems that track objects in space and provide earlier warning of potential threats.

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