
Debra Werner
Correspondent at SpaceNews
Contributor at Aerospace America
Freelance writer, @SpaceNews_Inc correspondent. Email: [email protected] or tip securely: dwerner@ProtonMail
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2 weeks ago |
copernical.com | Debra Werner
COLORADO SPRINGS – Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may […]
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2 weeks ago |
spacenews.com | Debra Werner
COLORADO SPRINGS – Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may not exist. That was one takeaway from an April 8 press briefing with Space Systems Command (SSC) officials.
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2 weeks ago |
spacenews.com | Debra Werner
COLORADO SPRINGS – The space sector is likely to benefit from increased defense spending by NATO allies, European military leaders said at the Space Symposium. At the NATO Summit in the Netherlands June, leaders may pledge national defense spending “as high as 3.5 percent” of their gross domestic products, said Tom Goffus, NATO assistant secretary for general operations.
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2 weeks ago |
copernical.com | Debra Werner
COLORADO SPRINGS – The space sector is likely to benefit from increased defense spending by NATO allies, European military leaders said at the Space Symposium.
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2 weeks ago |
spacenews.com | Debra Werner
Electrical engineer Ed Tate was skeptical of proposals for space-based solar power when he initially heard about the concept seven years ago. “My first reaction was, ‘That really sounds like science fiction. I don’t think that will work,’” Tate said in March at the Satellite 2025 conference. Now, Tate said, he’s “personally invested in making it happen” as chief technology officer for Virtus Solis Technologies, a Michigan startup planning to assemble a solar array in orbit in 2027.
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