Q&A: Building a broadband...
As a wave of plans for low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellations enters the market, a 63-year-old former NASA Branch Chief and Google executive is betting on narrow beams, higher frequencies and ...
Canadarm2 Reaches Out and Captures...
At 1:20 p.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Chris Williams, with assistance from NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, captured Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft using the International Space Station's Canadarm2 ...
Cygnus XL Cargo Craft Approaching...
NASA's coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency's YouTube channel for the capture of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of ...
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 ...
