Space

NATO and satellite imagery firm Planet Labs have signed a contract for a “virtual” constellation of surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance space assets—the latest sign of NATO's growing reliance on commercial space capabilities. 
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts for the final 20 satellites in the second tranche of its proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation on Aug. 16, setting the stage for hundreds of satellites to launch in the next three years or so. 
The Space Force isn’t quite ready to take full responsibility for recruiting its own Guardians yet, but the service is preparing a detachment within the Air Force Recruiting Service to build a strategy for doing so, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John F. ...