Space Force delays selection of weather satellites

The U.S. Space Force was expected this year to choose which vendors will build next-generation weather satellites for the Defense Department. But the competition is being extended until 2022 to give the teams more time to fine tune their designs, a program official said. The Space Enterprise Consortium — a Space Force organization that works with startups and commercial space companies — in June 2020 awarded $309 million in contracts to three teams... More

(Source: SpaceNews - Sep 6)