The Next Generation of Satellite Navigation
Researchers developed an innovation that promises to enhance satellite navigation by leveraging wideband multiplexed signals for improved accuracy. They are doing so using a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GalaxySpace Reveals Satellite with Unfolding Solar Panels
After China’s GalaxySpace developed the country’s first low-Earth orbit constellation that challenged SpaceX's Starlink, the company recently developed a new type of plate-shaped satellite...
New ‘Detumbler’ Halts Satellite Tumbling in Space
Space startup ‘Airbus’ launched a device that is designed to address space debris in Earth's orbit in early November as part of SpaceX's Transporter-9...
Amazon Designs Thrusters to Protect its Satellites from Space Debris
Amazon designs custom satellite thrusters that will enable more effective maneuvering to avoid space debris, as well as increase the sustainability of Amazon’s satellite...
European Space Agency Will Use AI to Tackle Space Dangers
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it will use artificial intelligence to reduce space garbage and protect infrastructure from space-based threats like space...
Satellite Assembling Robots Inspired by the Human Arm
A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology developed a new method to control robots that can assemble satellites in space. Their...
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A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
