https://spacewatch.global/tag/u-s-army/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:26:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/u-s-army/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/01/safran-federal-systems-demonstrates-blacknaute-inertial-navigation-system-on-u-s-army-black-hawk/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=70581 Safran Federal Systems has announced the successful flight demonstration of its Blacknaute™ Inertial Navigation System (INS) aboard a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, confirming Blacknaute’s ability to maintain high-accuracy inertial performance without GNSS support. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/10/safran-federal-systems-strengthens-the-resilience-of-next-generation-u-s-radars/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=68374 Safran Federal Systems has announced its continued role in the U.S. Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) program, delivering advanced timing solutions that are integral to the radar system’s mission success. Developed by Raytheon, an RTX business, LTAMDS is a next-generation radar designed to detect and defeat complex and emerging threats. As the program transitions into low-rate initial production, Safran’s VersaSync Flex system provides the precise, resilient timing architecture critical to the system’s 360-degree operational capability.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/08/ses-space-defense-wins-usaf-acc-geo-satellite-contract/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=56459 SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has won a multi-year contract worth USD 46.8 million from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC) to provide Geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellite services in support of the ACC remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training and testing program. SES Space & Defense will use SES’s GEO high-throughput satellite (HTS) fleet to provide ground-to-air and air-to-ground transmissions coverage over the continental United States (CONUS), Hawaii, Alaska, and the Pacific Ocean for airborne operations.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/spacelink-enters-into-cooperative-rd-agreement-with-u-s-army/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42603 Space communications infrastructure company, SpaceLink, has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, SpaceLink said. The organizations will explore alternative space communications pathways together to ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/04/usspacecom-and-ukspacecom-sign-space-cooperation-agreement/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=40305 U.S. Space Command and the United Kingdom Space Command signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning Enhanced Space Cooperation (ESC MoU). The agreement was signed at the 37th Space Symposium by U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, USSPACECOM Commander, and Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey, Commander of UKSpaceCom.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/08/nasa-renews-support-of-vertical-lift-university-research/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=35043 NASA, conjoined with the U.S. Army and Navy, continues backing university research into future technologies for helicopters and other vertical lift aircraft. NASA has designated academic teams as Vertical Lift Research Centers of Excellence (VLRCOE). The teams are led by colleges in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Maryland.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/08/israels-gilat-awarded-7-million-contract-by-u-s-army-for-win-t-programme/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 05:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15431 Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, has announced that its subsidiary Wavestream received orders for over U.S.$7 million for the U.S. Army's WIN-T (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical) program.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/05/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-three-satellites-for-u-s-air-force-from-new-zealand/ Mon, 06 May 2019 05:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13870 A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 06:00 UTC, Sunday 5 May 2019 (18:00 NZST). The STP-27RD mission launched three research and development satellites for the DoD Space Test Program that will demonstrate advanced space technologies, including a satellite to evaluate new ways of tracking space debris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/swgl-oped-a-u-s-space-force-in-trumps-shadow-look-beyond-the-man/ Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10093 The recent pronouncement by President Donald Trump that called for the creation of a separate U.S. Space Force has been met with some consternation by a number of commentators around the world. This reaction seems more concerned with the controversial persona of President Trump rather than with the policy substance behind the rhetoric.]]>