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.
The program to build a second slate of new missile warning and tracking satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) for the U.S. Space Force has completed PDR.
Sierra Space has closed a $550 million Series C funding round as it zeroes its focus on the national security space sector, the company announced March 5.
Airbus Defense and Space and Orbit Fab are teaming up to explore future refuelable satellites in geostationary orbit under a European Space Agency program.
