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22 Dec 25. Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, showcased its latest innovation in anti-jam Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology during the U.S. Army’s All-Domain Persistent Experiment at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The successful demonstration highlighted Collins’ smallest APNT ground solution to date, offering advanced capabilities in a portable, modular form.
The business’s Compact Modular Open Systems Standards (CMOSS) Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) card can be used to provide resilient navigation for ground vehicles, including robotic and autonomous platforms. While paired with an external antenna, the solution demonstrated exceptional performance in a denied and degraded GPS environment.
“Our card provides highly precise navigation in contested environments, and a scalable, cost-effective solution that is ready now for integration on a variety of platforms,” said Sandy Brown, vice president and general manager of Mission Critical Products at Collins Aerospace. “The smaller form factor allows for faster mission customization and improved situational awareness.”
During the experiment, Collins’ APNT system maintained assured navigation despite the presence of a significant number of jammers and spoofers. Leveraging Military-code GPS and internal and external organic sensors, the solution fused multiple data sources to ensure uninterrupted connectivity for ground vehicles, even in the absence of reliable GPS data.
All-Domain Persistent Experiment is the Army’s open-air experimentation environment to test capabilities in Denied/Degraded, Intermittent, Limited conditions to advance sensor technologies, networks, data processing, PNT and electronic warfare systems. (Source: PR Newswire)
22 Dec 25. Rocket Lab Successfully Launches for iQPS, Ends 2025 with 21 Launches and 100% Mission Succes. Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 21st Electron rocket of the year to deploy the latest satellite to space for multi-launch customer Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company.
‘The Wisdom God Guides’ mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on December 21 at 7:36 p.m. (06:36 UTC) to deploy the QPS-SAR-15 to space for iQPS. The spacecraft will join the company’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation providing near-real time imagery across twelve different orbits for iQPS’ global customers. Rocket Lab first launched for iQPS in 2023 and has gone on to deploy seven satellites to the iQPS constellation, making Electron the primary launcher for iQPS. A further five launches on Electron for iQPS are planned from 2026.
Today’s mission has set a new annual launch record for Electron: 21 launches in one year with 100% mission success. The record cements Electron as both America’s preeminent small launch provider and the world’s most frequently-launched small-lift orbital rocket.
Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Sir Peter Beck, says: “Congratulations to iQPS on this latest successful mission for their constellation, and to the Rocket Lab team on a fantastic record-setting year of Electron launches. Electron makes frequent and reliable launch look easy as it outpaces all other American small-lift orbital rockets, year after year. In 2026 we’re expanding Electron’s global reach with more multi-launch constellation deployments, dedicated missions for domestic civil space and international space agencies in Japan and Europe, and both suborbital and orbital launches with defense applications for hypersonic technology and national security. Our new record of annual launches and the breadth of upcoming missions goes to show how much of a global impact Electron continues to have on the space industry, and we’re looking forward to another year of continued execution in 2026.”
‘The Wisdom God Guides’ mission was Rocket Lab’s 79th overall Electron mission and final scheduled launch for 2025. The next Electron launch is slated to take place in early Q1 2026. (Source: ASD Network)
22 Dec 25. NGC Selected for Space Development Agency’s TRKT3 Mission. Northrop Grumman is set to deliver 150 satellites as part of Tranches 1, 2 and 3 for the Space Development Agency’s missile defense initiative, providing scalable solutions for rapid missile warning and tracking. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was competitively awarded a Tracking Layer of Tranche 3 (TRKT3) contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to deliver resilient, integrated missile warning and tracking satellites, a component of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) mission.
Northrop Grumman’s TRKT3 will:
- Accelerate the capability to provide global detection, warning and tracking of hypersonic weapons and advanced missiles from the earliest stages of launch through interception.
- Provide precision fire-control sensing data with sufficient accuracy for interception.
- Deliver data to decision makers to act quickly against hypersonic threats when integrated with the Transport Layer, PWSA’s mesh satellite communications network.
- Build on Tracking Layer capabilities of Tranche 1 (T1) and Tranche 2 (T2) with targeted technology enhancements, expanded coverage and increased integration.
- Capitalize on more than 30,000 square feet of allocated PWSA manufacturing space for the production and delivery of 18 satellites equipped with infrared sensors at speed and scale.
Experts:
Brandon White, vice president and general manager of space-enabled multi-domain operations division at Northrop Grumman: “Northrop Grumman’s contributions to both high and low altitude layers of our nation’s missile warning and tracking architecture help protect our nation from a wide range of threats. With our extensive history of fielding operational Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) satellites, we are poised to rapidly deliver the TRKT3 satellites to the SDA.”
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Details on Program:
The PWSA is SDA’s initiative to create a global mesh-networked missile defense and communications architecture in low-Earth orbit. TRKT3 is the third installment of the tracking layer that responds to the rise of hypersonic missiles, which maneuver in flight and require infrared tracking and low-latency, timely data to counter effectively. The tracking layer works hand-in-hand with the transport layer, which provides the high-speed data that U.S. troops need to combat threats when operating around the globe. Northrop Grumman is providing both space vehicles and ground systems for the tracking and transport layers of this next-generation constellation. The company is on course to deliver 150 satellites as part of Tranches 1, 2 and 3 that will enhance the capabilities of PWSA. The first plane of Northrop Grumman’s Transport Layer of Tranche 1 satellites is scheduled for launch in early 2026. (Source: ASD Network)
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