#space-force

#space-force

True Anomaly raised $650 million in Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $1 billion since its founding in August 2022.

The Space Force's formal acceptance of the ground system from RTX last year marked a turning point for OCX after years of blunders. The handover allowed military teams to validate the new control software and upgraded ground facilities before declaring the system ready for operational service.

By the end of the year, Northwood, based in El Segundo, California, had shown the ability to build eight of these Portal arrays a month. And in January the company had deployed operational Portal antennas across two continents. These deployments, which comprise an area of 8 to 15 meters, have the equivalent capability of a 7-meter parabolic dish, said Griffin Cleverly, co-founder and chief technical officer of Northwood.

My first term, we createdand I createda thing called Space Force. So important. You know, we were losing the race in space very badly to China and to Russia. And now we're far and away number one in space. And reestablish Space Command with a mission to protect American space assets and detect any threat to our homeland. We initially selected Huntsville for the Space Command headquarters, yet those plans were wrongfully obstructed by the Biden administration.

Well, they're wrong. It's about as close to perfect as you can have in terms of real production.

Space Force’s Eastern Range had to accommodate conflicting schedules, causing ULA to delay launches for more than 24 hours after bad weather grounded their mission.