Canadarm2 Installs Cygnus XL Cargo...
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft has been installed to the Unity module's Earth-facing port of the International Space Station. The mission is known as NASA's Northrop Grumman Commercial ...
Sophia and Kepler to marry orbital...
COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13.Through the partnership, Sophia ...
Earth observation operators push to...
Vantor employees were gathered for a sales kickoff in January, when an executive announced that a WorldView Legion satellite passing overhead would snap a photo of the California venue. Later, a ...
Space Sovereignty Is No Longer Optional
A Critical Infrastructure Under StrainSpace has quietly become the infrastructure beneath modern life. From financial transactions synchronised by satellite timing to military operations reliant on ...
Rocket Lab wins contract for three...
Rocket Lab has won a contract from Japanese radar satellite company iQPS for three additional Electron launches.Rocket Lab announced April 9 it signed a contract with iQPS, or Institute for Q-shu ...
Improved thresholds and SSA accuracy...
Improving the accuracy of space situational awareness (SSA) data and using tighter thresholds for potential conjunctions can help retire most of the risk of satellite collisions in low Earth orbit, ...
April 30: Opportunities for On-Orbit...
Orbital data centers have quickly moved from hypothetical to seemingly inevitable, and opportunities and challenges are coming into focus fast.As players raise millions to drive the race to establish ...
Tracking the next SDA challenge
A flurry of commercial innovation has left the U.S. government with no shortage of sensors and AI-driven insights to monitor the increasingly packed and contested space environment.The challenge is ...
China conducts pair of Long March...
HELSINKI - China carried out separate Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches this week, adding new batches of satellites to the country's megaconstellation projects.The missions mark the first ...
What returning to lunar space means...
Preparing to send astronauts back to the moon is no small feat. Spaceflight exposes the body to both known and unknown risks, some of which are subtle, cumulative, and difficult to predict. When ...
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