Plus: A cost breakdown for Golden Dome
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OUR TOP STORY
| | By Sandra Erwin and Jason Rainbow Maxar Technologies, the space and satellite company formed in 2017, has shed its name. On Oct. 1, the company unveiled new identities for its two businesses: Maxar Intelligence will now operate as Vantor, while Maxar Space Systems will go by Lanteris.
Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems started operating as separate entities after private-equity firm Advent International acquired the publicly traded Maxar Technologies for $6.4 billion in 2023.
Both Vantor and Lanteris will remain portfolio companies of Advent International.
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CIVIL
| | Germany will invest 35 billion euros ($41.1 billion) into defense space technologies within the next five years, Germany's Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, announced at the Federation of German Industries Space Congress in Berlin. The investment, made in response to rising tensions with Russia, is an unprecedented amount for any European country. Experts say it could spur a new era in European space cooperation.
China is preparing a series of tests and launches in the final quarter of 2025 crucial to its crewed moon program and commercial rocket plans. Among these are new tests for the Long March 10. The full Long March 10 will use three first stages bundled together. A static fire of a full first stage and a low-altitude flight of the stage could be possibilities in the next few months.
After decades of operating satellites alongside one another with little communication, China, one of the world's most prolific launching states, is beginning to share information with western space powers, having contacted NASA about coordinating to avoid a potential collision in orbit.
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| | A report published last month by defense analyst Todd Harrison estimating the potential costs of the Golden Dome to be $3.6 trillion over two decades. At a meeting with reporters, Harrison demonstrated the "Defense Futures Simulator," an online tool he used to generate the Golden Dome cost estimates. He said the tool is publicly available so users can plug in their own assumptions.
The U.S. Space Force's procurement arm has opened a competition for companies to design a compact radio-frequency terminal for inter-satellite communications, according to a solicitation published Sept. 16. The Space Systems Command, through its spectrum warfare office, said the project is in support of Golden Dome. | | |
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| | The Australian company HEO, a leader in taking images of spacecraft in low Earth orbit, is seeking to widen its aperture to monitor higher orbits, and even beyond. The images help satellite operators diagnose problems with their spacecraft.
At the International Astronautical Congress Sept. 30, Lockheed Martin announced an agreement with BioAstra, a nonprofit organization, to study flying a mission in Orion beyond Earth orbit to perform biomedical research. The agreement is one of the first steps by Lockheed Martin in its efforts to offer the spacecraft as a service.
Starlab Space unveiled a full-scale mockup of the commercial space station at the International Astronautical Congress. Voyager Technologies is leading development of the 7.8-meter-diameter Starlab in a joint venture with international partners Airbus, Mitsubishi Corp., MDA, Palantir Technologies and Space Applications Services. |
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