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Closer collaboration with local space sector is key: Defence

Closer collaboration with the local space industry is a key Defence priority according to chief of joint capabilities Lieutenant General John Frewen, with commercial capabilities becoming increasingly important in “complementing and augmenting Defence’s Space Command culture and structures’. General Frewen opened the Space Industry Association of Australia’s annual Southern Space…

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Biden served as tie-breaker in Space Command decision

White House officials say partisan politics had nothing to do with the president’s call to overrule former President Donald Trump.

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Biden rejects Trump decision to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama

Decision comes amid Alabama senator blocking military promotions in response to Pentagon’s abortion policy

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Space Command stays in Colorado, infuriating Alabama delegation - Roll Call

The Biden administration has reversed a Trump-era decision to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama.

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Biden has decided to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama, officials tell AP

Senior U.S. officials say President Joe Biden has decided to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama

The Independent UK

Alabama lawmakers turn up the heat on Air Force in escalating Space Command fight

The legislation would freeze construction funding and restrict travel as the basing decision drags on.

Politico

Alabama senator says Space Command prefers Huntsville for HQ, but command has no comment

Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville says the top general in charge of U.S. Space Command told him during a meeting Wednesday that Huntsville, not Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the preferred location for its new headquarters

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Air Force picks Colorado for more Space Force missions as politics loom over headquarters decision

The Air Force has announced the permanent location for many more U.S. Space Force units — and none of them are in Huntsville, Alabama

The Independent UK

Satellite startup Fleet Space lands $50m Series C

Adelaide nanosatellite startup Fleet Space Technologies is now worth $350 million after raising $50 million in an oversubscribed series C, the company announced Wednesday. Fleet said it will push further into the North American market and develop new AI enabled satellite technologies with the funding. The Blackbird-led series C follows…

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How Tuberville's blockade of Pentagon nominees could end

The Alabama senator is holding up confirmations over the Defense Department's abortion travel policy

Politico

Fleet Space scores first satellite deal with Defence

Nanosatellite startup Fleet Space Technologies has signed a $6.4 million contract with Australia’s nascent Space Command agency to develop a low-Earth orbit satellite communications system for Defence. The 16-month deal, which resulted from a limited tender, is the Adelaide-based space company’s first win with the Defence department and the wider…

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Australia's Space Command pushes for 'soft kill' capability to take out enemy satellites

The head of the ADF's Space Command says Australia is working on a plan to take out enemy satellites without creating dangerous debris.

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Democrats step up pressure on Biden to reverse Trump’s decision on space HQ

One senator has raised troops’ access to abortion and other services if the command moves from Colorado to Alabama.

Politico

Colorado officials slam report that defends locating US Space Command in Alabama

DENVER — Colorado’s top political officials reacted with frustration Wednesday to a report from the Department of Defense’s inspector general concluding that Alabama deserved to win out over Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs as home to U.S. Space Command headquarters.

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Anti-satellite weapons: the US has sworn off tests, and Australia should follow suit

When United States Vice-President Kamala Harris was at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California earlier this week she said the US would not conduct tests of destructive, direct ascent anti-satellite missiles.

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Military brass undercuts Biden budget by requesting billions more - Roll Call

Generals and admirals have written to Congress asking for billions in funding that President Joe Biden did not request.

Tribune News Service

Colorado delegation urges Biden to consider national security, cost in Space Command decision

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado.

ABC News

Space commander 'scared' Australia lagging in military space capability, as Russia and China reach for the stars

Australia's first space commander says the country must rapidly develop the ability to take out potential enemy satellites, saying China and Russia's activities in outer space "scare" her.

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Space industry ready to work ‘hand-in-hand’ with Defence

Australia’s space industry is ready to work “hand-in-hand” with Defence to bolster the country’s capabilities as the federal government flags the growing military importance of space. Defence Minister Peter Dutton made a speech at the Air and Space Power Conference on Tuesday morning to mark the official launch of the…

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Defence Minister Peter Dutton flags future US-style Space Force for Australia

Launching Australia's new Space Command, the Defence Minister flags a future Australian military force in space similar to the one established by former US president Donald Trump, as China and Russia's space power grows.

Tribune News Service

Aerospace companies urge Colorado senators to fight to keep Space Command

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — More than a dozen aerospace companies throughout the state rallied together to say Colorado should be the permanent home for U.S. Space Command.

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