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L3Harris and Sierra Space will build 36 new missile-tracking satellites for $1.75 billion, pushing the Space Development Agency's Tranche 3 constellation to 104 spacecraft in support of the Golden Dome missile-defense architecture.
Read the story →Houston's Venus Aerospace raised a $91 million Series B on July 8, 2026, to scale its rotating detonation rocket engine from prototype toward production, with NASA Marshall already testing the same architecture.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing up to $2 billion to build two new MUOS narrowband satellites, dethroning incumbent Lockheed Martin and keeping the military's UHF 'cellphone network in space' alive into the mid-2030s.
The Space Force ordered two more GPS IIIF satellites from Lockheed Martin for $514 million, pushing the next-gen order to 14 spacecraft and hardening the GPS constellation against jamming with M-Code, a digital payload, and regional power focusing.
The Space Development Agency is building a mesh network of hundreds of small military satellites in low Earth orbit — a fundamentally different approach to space-based command and control than anything the US has operated before.
NASA's crewed lunar flyby mission has been delayed again. The reasons are technical, financial, and organizational — and understanding them reveals how difficult it is to run a government human spaceflight program in 2026.
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