Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience
The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.
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The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.
"It's not just resiliency from a life-extension perspective" for the Space Force. said SpaceLogistics President Rob Hauge. "We've got the potential to actually include other payloads as well,"
"I think there are more questions than answers right now when it comes to SJ-21," Todd Harrison, director of CSIS's Aerospace Project, told Breaking Defense.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said should a year-long continuing resolution come to pass, the disruption for sat launches would "ripple" for years.
The Japanese-founded startup also will pitch its debris removal services to SPACEWerx Orbit Prime contest, says Astroscale US President Ron Lopez.