Recent NASA-funded research has provided new insights into the behavior of organic molecules frozen in salt water, an environment that mimics conditions on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These results will help astrobiologists better understand how habitable Enceladus’s subsurface ocean may be, and could be used in the future to design missions...
Kuiper is a project being developed by Amazon that aims to create a commercial satellite communications network. Vice President of Space Satellite Cluster Technologies, Rajeev Badyal, said the project has made significant progress following successful tests of two prototypes, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2. Badyal stressed that the design of the satellites...
Jupiter’s moon Io is the subject of a new study that suggests there may be an ocean of magma beneath its surface. Of Jupiter’s four largest moons, Io is the closest to the planet. This is the most volcanically active object in the solar system, its emissions reach over 500...
The results of a recent test on the ISS, during which various types of wood were exposed to the vacuum of space, were confirmed by the project’s research team at Kyoto University in Japan. It has been confirmed that the wood is resistant to space conditions. Now NASA and the...
The US Senate passed a bill requiring NASA to create a program to remove space debris from Earth’s orbit. S. 447, also known as the Orbital Stability Act or ORBITS Act 2023, received unanimous Senate approval on October 31. Space debris in Earth’s orbit in a neural network imageThe main...
Terran Orbital will build 36 satellites for Lockheed Martin, which is a strategic investor and important client of the company. Artist’s rendering of the Lockheed Martin Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta satellite. Source: Terran OrbitalLockheed Martin is building satellites for the Space Development Agency (SDA), an organization within the US...
The satellites are intended for part of SDA’s communications network known as Tranche 2 Alpha, SDA Director Derek Turner said Oct. 19 at the MilSat Symposium in California. The network is expected to have about 100 satellites. A second supplier has also been selected to produce additional satellites for Tranche...
New research indicates that Earth’s orbit is already crowded with tens of thousands of satellites and could be overwhelmed with even more in the near future, highlighting the need for strict laws governing the use of shared orbital space. Experts believe that over a million satellites will soon be launched...
To better address challenges such as disaster monitoring and increasing agricultural productivity, Senegal plans to harness the potential of satellite technology and artificial intelligence. SCUM center engineers designing the satellite. Source: Aboubaker HassanBack in 2019, the country developed a two-year plan to create and launch its own satellite, but the...
On October 12, startup GuardianSat announced that it had received a grant from NSF (the Independent Agency of the US Government responsible for the advancement of science and technology) to develop technology that is designed to protect satellites from collisions with space objects. The funding amount was approximately $273,000. The...
NASA, in collaboration with West Virginia University, is developing a multi-functional space laser system that will be able to protect the nation’s space assets from catastrophic collisions and other potential space threats. Using artificial intelligence algorithms, these space lasers will deflect or even be able to deorbit objects that could...
Space Forge lost its first experimental satellite in January during a failed launch of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. The new satellite, called ForgeStar-1, will head to the US for launch in late 2023 or early 2024. Space Forge has signed a collaboration agreement with US multinational aerospace giant Northrop Grumman...
The launch on an Arianespace Vega-C rocket from the Guiana Space Research Center will take place on October 4. The cubesats will operate approximately 500 kilometers above Earth, maintaining a distance of 10 kilometers from each other. At the same time, these satellites will not have their own propulsion systems...
The company announced a 17-year agreement with the UAE government to finance two geostationary satellites from Airbus, scheduled for launch in 2027 and 2028. The agreement includes an upfront payment of $1 billion in 2024, roughly the same amount the operator plans to spend in total on the Al Yah...
On July 13, HawkEye 360 announced it had raised $58 million in a D-1 round led by BlackRock. This funding will be used to develop new satellites and analytical products. The company has already raised $368 million in funding and, according to Serafini, this round may be the last one...
She noted that the bank is interested in helping the industry finance new projects and does not have preferences in relation to specific architectures or technologies. According to her, the bank is now considering financing proposals in the amount of $1.3 billion, which “will likely be implemented” within a year....
