The idea sounds like something ripped from a sci-fi blockbuster: a stealthy F-22 Raptor screaming through contested airspace, pulling data in real time from satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above ...

Last year’s release of both the Department of Defense (DoD) “Commercial Space Integration Strategy” and the United States Space Force (USSF) “Commercial Space Strategy,” marked, for the first time, ...

This series, Space in Focus, explores key space trends, challenges, and policy issues that will confront the next administration as well as offers recommendations for how to navigate them. “Success no ...

After spending more than a decade in the United States and obtaining dual citizenship, Giuseppe Santangelo returned to Turin, Italy to establish Space Industries, a business focused on rapid assembly, ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) recently released two documents describing a new approach to tapping into private sector space capabilities—the DOD Commercial Space Integration Strategy, issued by the ...

John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy. Credit: Defense Department Long-awaited strategies outlining how the Pentagon and the U.S. Space Force want to work with industry are ...

Apart from passing the Karman line and reaching outer space, there are few boasts in the U.S. space sector prouder than “my company is vertically integrated.” Vertical integration—the practice of ...