Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week. She has written about U.S. and international military and space tech since 2016 from bureaus in Washington, Los Angeles and Stuttgart, Germany. Her byline has appeared in outlets including Defense News, Via Satellite, Foreign Policy, Defense Daily, National Defense Magazine and Business Insider.
A York Space Systems satellite built for the Space Development Agency (SDA) has successfully proven its satellites can support bidirectional ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) communications between low Earth orbit and the ground.
The call came before sunrise in Mahia, New Zealand. Less than 17 hr. later, Rocket Lab launched a company-built satellite to space with its Electron rocket.
