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How Aerospace is Advancing Sensor Capabilities For Wildfires

How Aerospace is Advancing Sensor Capabilities For...

In this report the Aerospace Corporation identifies opportunities to improve wildfire detection and monitoring capabilities, efforts that could ultimately protect biodiversity, infrastructure and human life, as well as mitigate wildfires’…

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State of Play: Lasercom Key to Building Internet in Space – Government and Private Sector Poised to Scale

State of Play: Lasercom Key to Building Internet...

Joint All Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, is a concept developed by the Department of Defense that aims to connect sensors from all branches of the armed forces into…

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Sparta: Space Attack Research & Tactic Analysis Cybersecurity Framework

Sparta: Space Attack Research & Tactic Analysis...

Cybersecurity matrices have become an industry-standard approach for providing a knowledge base of adversary behaviors, helping visualize and categorize threats, and serving as a taxonomy for adversarial actions across the…

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The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for the Space Industry

The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for...

This paper provides an overview of environmental and sustainability trends and offers options for the U.S. government, and the Department of Defense (DOD) in particular, to consider and adopt E-LCAs…

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Mine Games: Securing America’s Critical Mineral Supply

Mine Games: Securing America’s Critical Mineral...

The Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, has listed 50 critical minerals that constitute a strategic vulnerability for the nation’s security and prosperity. And now,…

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FY2024 Defense Budget Request: Space-based Satellite Programs

FY2024 Defense Budget Request: Space-based...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) develops, procures, and deploys satellites in various orbits to enable space operations aligned with operations in other domains. DOD’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 funding…

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Securing the U.S. Aerospace and Defense Critical Minerals Supply Chain

Securing the U.S. Aerospace and Defense Critical...

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) released a comprehensive list of critical minerals vital to the aerospace and defense industry and provided recommendations to secure the critical mineral supply chain. AIA…

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Global Aerospace and Defense – Annual Industry Performance and Outlook

Global Aerospace and Defense – Annual Industry...

The 2023 edition of PwC’s Global Aerospace and Defense: Annual Industry Performance and Outlook shares key performance metrics of the global commercial aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. We collected our…

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Artemis: NASA’s Program to Return Humans to the Moon

Artemis: NASA’s Program to Return Humans to the...

Between 1969 and 1972, the Apollo program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) landed 12 American men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth. Since then,…

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Multimodal Hydrogen Airport Hub

Multimodal Hydrogen Airport Hub

The goal of this whitepaper, “Multimodal H2-Airport Hub,” is to create a repeatable hydrogen hub for the airport, first with a ground vehicle fueling station, and later expanding to an…

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Commercial Space Transportation: FAA’s Oversight of Human Spaceflight

Commercial Space Transportation: FAA’s Oversight...

The number of commercial launch and reentry operations carrying humans is a small proportion of the overall number of commercial space operations—about 10 percent in 2023—but it is growing. This…

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Landsat Next on the Horizon

Landsat Next on the Horizon

In December 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey presented initial details about Landsat Next, the next proposed launch in the Landsat series of Earth-observing…

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Satellite Control Network: Updating Sustainment Plan Would Help Space Force Better Manage Future Efforts

Satellite Control Network: Updating Sustainment...

Space Force’s Satellite Control Network (SCN) provides critical launch and operations support for satellites worth billions of dollars with a broad range of missions. The SCN makes over 450 daily…

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Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from NASA’s Fermi

Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from...

Fermi provides a unique view of the universe and allows us to study some of its most curious phenomena. Fermi’s position in low-Earth orbit enables it to detect thousands of…

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Blueprint For Autonomy

Blueprint For Autonomy

This document is intended as a guide forward as an industry into a future that methodically enables new automation capabilities and is intended to encompass all forms of autonomous flight,…

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