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NASA Shares Assignments for its SpaceX Crew-9 Space Station Mission

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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They will arrive to the space station for a short duration handover with NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission

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  • They will arrive to the space station for a short duration handover with NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission
    This will be the first spaceflight for Cardman, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017.
  • With a total of 203 days in space, this will be Hague's third launch and second mission to the orbiting laboratory.
  • Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a flight engineer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 and 60.
  • Hague conducted three spacewalks, to upgrade space station power systems and install a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft.

Professional Soccer Referees Vote to Authorize Strike

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Monday, January 22, 2024
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Members of the Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA) are bargaining for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with their employer, the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), which has thus far refused to appropriately recognize the immense contributions of officials to Major League Soccer (MLS) and the sport in general.

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  • Members of the Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA) are bargaining for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with their employer, the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), which has thus far refused to appropriately recognize the immense contributions of officials to Major League Soccer (MLS) and the sport in general.
  • In a resounding display of solidarity, PSRA members voted to authorize their union to call a strike if necessary, with 100 percent of participating officials voting ‘yes’ to authorize a strike based on alleged unfair labor practices by certain PRO managers – a move that could have implications for the upcoming MLS season.
  • PSRA comprises approximately 250 members, who are employed by PRO, the organization responsible for servicing MLS and other professional soccer leagues in the United States.
  • This agreement expired on January 15, 2024, and was extended, by Member vote, to January 31, 2024.

True Anomaly Appoints Space Force Alum Frank Di Pentino as Chief Strategy Officer

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
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CENTENNIAL, Colo., Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- True Anomaly, Inc., the technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space, today announced the appointment of Frank Di Pentino as its first Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, he will enable True Anomaly to establish a sustained competitive advantage in developing space superiority products, anticipating customer needs, and building targeted, differentiated solutions at scale. 

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  • CENTENNIAL, Colo., Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- True Anomaly, Inc. , the technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space, today announced the appointment of Frank Di Pentino as its first Chief Strategy Officer.
  • Di Pentino brings extensive expertise to True Anomaly's leadership team, having most recently served as Director of Advanced Concepts, Tactics, and Wargaming at the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Security and Defense Program, where he conceived of and executed the first service-level digital Force Design Wargaming methodology for the service.
  • Di Pentino will be responsible for conceptualizing and maturing asymmetric approaches to solving the country's emergent needs in the space domain.
  • Di Pentino joins True Anomaly's expanding team of C-suite talent, including its newly appointed Chief Financial Officer, Mark Seidel , and Chief Information Security Officer, Diana Lovati .

Muon Space Selected by AFWERX for SBIR Phase I Contract

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase I contract focused on weather intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and operational mission planning. Muon Space will perform a feasibility study to determine the benefit of modifying its multispectral Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) instrument to support the Department of Defense's (DoD) cloud characterization observation capability.

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  • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Muon Space , a LEO satellite constellation company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase I contract focused on weather intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and operational mission planning.
  • Muon Space will perform a feasibility study to determine the benefit of modifying its multispectral Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) instrument to support the Department of Defense's (DoD) cloud characterization observation capability.
  • Muon Space is developing an EO/IR constellation solution that offers a commercial path to fill these gaps and ensure mission-critical data delivery.
  • Announced in July , this is an expansion in scope to the original contract awarded to Muon Space in September 2022 to develop a space-based prototype for global weather sensing.

GSI Technology Receives Award from U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to Demonstrate High-Data Computation Use Cases Leveraging Its Next-Generation APU

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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GSI will create specialized algorithms for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to leverage the compute-in-memory architecture of the Gemini® APU.

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  • GSI will create specialized algorithms for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to leverage the compute-in-memory architecture of the Gemini® APU.
  • GSI will also develop algorithms using data from the United States Space Force (USSF) to showcase the performance benefits of its compute-in-memory APU2 integrated circuit (IC).
  • These capabilities support the Air Force in swiftly identifying and responding to threats, bolstering national security and technological superiority."
  • Now, GSI Technology will start its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.

Space Systems Command Awards Enterprise Management & Control (EM&C) Phase 2 Contract to RKF Engineering Team

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), by way of the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) administered by the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), is pleased to announce the fourth Phase 2 engineering change award for a Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) contract (fifth engineering change award overall) to a team led by RKF Engineering Solutions, LLC (RKF). The RKF Team includes partner companies Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Ascension Engineering Group (a Boecore Company), and Kythera Space Solutions (Kythera).

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  • BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), by way of the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) administered by the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), is pleased to announce the fourth Phase 2 engineering change award for a Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) contract (fifth engineering change award overall) to a team led by RKF Engineering Solutions, LLC (RKF).
  • The RKF Team includes partner companies Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Ascension Engineering Group (a Boecore Company), and Kythera Space Solutions (Kythera).
  • Initiated in 2019, the SATCOM EM&C effort is foundational to the USSF Vision for Enterprise SATCOM signed in 2020 by now retired Gen. Jay Raymond, Commander, U.S. Space Command, and USSF Chief of Space Operations.
  • These capabilities will provide invaluable, actionable insight for DoD SATCOM users, including SATCOM Integrated Operations Division (SIOD), Space Delta 8 (DEL 8), and U.S. Space Command senior leadership.

Investors Funnel Capital into Xage as Demand for Zero Trust Cybersecurity Mesh Skyrockets

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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SAIC and Xage also announced today a strategic collaboration ( Xage Security and SAIC to Accelerate Zero Trust Adoption in Critical Infrastructure ) to deliver zero trust security solutions to critical infrastructure and distributed operations including Operational Technology (OT), Information Technology (IT) and cloud environments.

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  • SAIC and Xage also announced today a strategic collaboration ( Xage Security and SAIC to Accelerate Zero Trust Adoption in Critical Infrastructure ) to deliver zero trust security solutions to critical infrastructure and distributed operations including Operational Technology (OT), Information Technology (IT) and cloud environments.
  • The Xage Cybersecurity Mesh is specifically designed to bring zero trust access management and data security to complex environments without requiring any overhaul or retrofitting of existing physical and digital infrastructure.
  • “As an investor in Xage, we have seen how imperative its technology is to safeguard against adversarial threats with its differentiated zero trust platform.
  • Per the contract, Xage will offer zero trust access control and data protection across current and next-generation ground and space architectures.

Spire Global Awarded Subcontract by Riverside Research for United States Space Force Space Domain Awareness Program

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, today announced it was awarded a subcontract by Riverside Research, an advanced research nonprofit, to provide star tracker imagery as part of the Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness (DEEP-SDA) project on behalf of the United States Space Force (USSF).

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  • Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, today announced it was awarded a subcontract by Riverside Research, an advanced research nonprofit, to provide star tracker imagery as part of the Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness (DEEP-SDA) project on behalf of the United States Space Force (USSF).
  • Spire will be the leading provider of star tracker imagery, and all data will be used in direct support of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations Cell (JCO), a specialized Space Force unit that works with commercial space data.
  • "As activity in space increases, monitoring it is critical for the safety, security and sustainability of our space domain,” said Chuck Cash, vice president of federal sales at Spire.
  • “With our star tracker imagery, Riverside Research can more accurately provide space domain awareness for the JCO and USSF.”
    Star trackers are optical sensors utilized on satellites to precisely determine and maintain their orientation in space.

AFA Applauds Release of New Comprehensive Space Strategy

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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"We are excited to see a clearly delineated strategy that draws together the many initiatives driven by Chief of Space Operations Gen. B.

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  • "We are excited to see a clearly delineated strategy that draws together the many initiatives driven by Chief of Space Operations Gen. B.
  • The Strategy rightly affirms the Chief of Space Operations as the "Force Design Architect for Space Systems of the Armed Forces."
  • For resourcing, it notes that the Joint Requirements Oversight Council has designated the USSF as the integrator for DOD's Joint Space Requirements.
  • As a result, "The Force Design Architect and Joint Integrator now can bring the entire joint community together to develop cogent space requirements," the strategy states.

Scientific Systems Awarded SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Contract

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Systems, a leader in intelligent autonomous systems, announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a $1.5 Million STTR Phase II contract, under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Program.  Scientific Solutions' vision-based solution, for US-RIPTIDE (Unknown Satellite Realtime Inspection, Pose, Tracking and IDEntification,) focuses on enabling In-space Service Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities being explored by the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and United States Space Force (USSF) through the Orbital Prime program.

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  • WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Systems, a leader in intelligent autonomous systems, announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a $1.5 Million STTR Phase II contract, under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Program.
  • Orbital Prime was created to accelerate the commercial In-Space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) market toward a use case of Active Debris Remediation.
  • Scientific System's contract is in one of 20 STTR Phase II contracts awarded by SpaceWERX, each valued at $1.5M per contract, for a total of $30M awarded to the Orbital Prime Cohort, which also includes recent D2P2 SBIR awardees.
  • "We're very excited to work with Scientific Systems and the Space Force on this project.