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MDA awards $75M to Long Wall for low-cost, midcourse interceptor testing - Breaking Defense

Long Wall is matching the Missile Defense Agency's funding with its own capital to continue development of the Cyclops, according to the company.

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AFRL Plans to Award $30M for Cislunar Operations Project

AFRL plans to launch a tech challenge next month meant to speed up development of systems that can operate in cislunar space.

www.airandspaceforces.com

The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch its latest technology challenge next month—a project meant to speed up development of systems that can operate beyond geosynchronous orbit.

SpaceWERX is leading the effort, dubbed Cislunar Prime. The space innovation hub is looking for commercial capabilities that could put the Space Force on a faster path toward cislunar operations in three focus areas:

• space domain awareness
• cislunar communications
• positioning, navigation, and timing

The Space Force defines cislunar as the region of space past GEO and extending to the moon and beyond, hundreds of thousands of kilometers in distance and 1,728 times the volume of space complained within GEO. Conditions there present challenges for satellite operations like PNT and SDA, given its distance from the Earth and its unstable trajectories.

 

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