Giant Rail Gun to Launch Hypersonic Planes into Space
Chinese scientists are reportedly developing a giant electromagnetic rail gun meant to launch hypersonic planes into space. The South China Morning Post reports that the...
Satellites for Quantum Communications and Encryption
The developing field of quantum computing foretells a future in which current encryption processes are no longer safe. Researchers from the Technical University of...
AI-Powered Solution to Track Space Debris
Since the first launch of a human made machine into space, approximately 55,000 satellites were deployed into space as of 2023. It is further...
No Longer an Un-Militarized Domain? US General Warns of a ‘Window...
General Stephen Whiting, commander of US Space Command, recently warned lawmakers that China and Russia have “transformed space into a contested warfighting domain.” Whiting...
China Plans CCTV Moon Surveillance System
China is planning to develop a Moon surveillance system to protect its Lunar assets, which will reportedly have millions of sensors and cameras for...
Revolutionary High-Resolution Satellites Raise Privacy Concerns
Startup company Albedo is setting out to collect and provide the highest resolution optical and thermal imagery from the sky. The images will have...
The Growing Need for Satellite Cybersecurity
The expansion of the digital realm into space has opened new frontiers for cyber threats, posing unprecedented challenges.
The satellites orbiting Earth are crucial for...
Historic Mission Launched to Monitor Space Junk
This historic mission to inspect and monitor a large piece of space junk was launched by Rocket Lab and Astroscale Japan atop an Electron...
AI-Based Hypersonic Missile Tracking System Software
The California-based company EpiSci was chosen by the US Space Development Agency to develop cutting-edge hypersonic missile detection software, leveraging the power of AI...
The World’s First Wooden Satellite
The LignoSat2 wooden satellite is an innovative concept on the brink of becoming a reality and might be launched in late 2024 by NASA...
Russia Plans Anti-Satellite Nuclear Weapon
The US House Intelligence Committee issued a warning to Congress about a "serious national security threat" in regards to Russia’s plans for a nuclear-armed...
NASA’s Revolutionary Search and Rescue Technology
The international satellite-aided search and rescue initiative Cospas-Sarsat has been aided by NASA and enabled the development of multiple emergency location beacon types that...
Iran’s Satellites to Extend Ballistic Missile Range
Iran recently announced that it has deployed three satellites into space using its notoriously unreliable "Simorgh" ("Pheonix") rockets. The launch has been widely criticized...
Eliminating Space Debris with Ground-Based Lasers
Australia's EOS Space and Japan's EX-Fusion combat space debris with a laser system, which could be a crucial fix for the increasingly crowded Earth...
MOCAT – MIT’s New Invention Against Space Debris
As Earth’s atmosphere and beyond are slowly filling with satellites and space debris, there is increasing worry about what Earth’s future is going to...
The Spying Satellites of Japan, South and North Korea
Recent regional space developments include Japan’s new “information-gathering” satellite, South Korea's spy satellite launched by SpaceX and North Korea's recent surveillance satellite deployment.
Japan's Information-Gathering...
SpaceX Launches First Satellite-to-Smartphone Signal from Space
SpaceX’s latest Falcon 9 mission contained its first set of Starlink satellites capable of transmitting a signal from space directly to our smartphones, with...
Russia-China Hack-Proof Quantum Communication Link
Quantum communication is a secure way to transfer information, resistant to eavesdropping by hackers. The encrypted data is transferred as ones and zeros along...
JAXA Repurposes Spacecraft to Protect Earth from Small Asteroids
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is to begin testing new technology capable of altering the course of small and fast asteroids and hopefully prevent...
The US’s New Hypersonic Missile Tracking Satellites
L3Harris will provide the Space Development Agency (SDA) with 16 satellites to detect, monitor, and track hypersonic missiles aimed at the US and its...
The Pentagon’s Network of Space Sensors Might Not Work
The Pentagon plans to create a multi-layer system of sensors for tracking hypersonic missiles, but a new report released by the CSIS calls out...
Wireless ‘Energy Webs’ Will Charge Airborne Platforms
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a contract with Raytheon to create an airborne "wireless internet for energy" called the Persistent Optical Wireless...
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