Pentagon beefs-up hypersonic missile tracking from space, awards $342M in contracts
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency (SDA) awards two contracts totaling more than $342 million to deploy satellites for detecting and...
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‘Beijing & Moscow have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy weapons’: Defense Sec
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says that China and Russia have weaponized space through "killer satellites" and directed energy...
US-China tech arms race will give us bases on the moon, more military operations in space
The technological arms race between China and the US will give us bases on the moon and more space-based military...
Air Force Hack-A-Sat challenge to go virtual as Pentagon preps for satellite network rollout
The United States Air Force announces it is moving its Hack-A-Sat challenge completely online as the Pentagon prepares to rollout...
Satellite servicing: because repairing is cheaper than building new ones
With thousands of satellites launched, but with many of them either becoming dysfunctional or running out of fuel, satellite servicing...
AI satellite imagery startup launches in Lisbon to tackle environmental disasters
Portugal-based startup, Tesselo launched in Lisbon last week with a mission of using its advanced AI-based satellite imagery technology to...
US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space
The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...
ESA, Stanford set AI challenge to collect derelict satellites in graveyard orbits
Revolving like turds in a toilet in a never-ending flush, derelict satellites continue to swirl around the earth in graveyard...
Space Force ‘should leverage commercial space technology’: Deputy Defense Secretary
When US President Donald Trump announced he was going to launch a new branch of the military, the Space Force,...
How to harvest satellite bits, while they are still in space
It sounds like something out of a Bond film but the United States' Department of Defence's Phoenix Program has plans to harvest parts of decommissioned satellites, while they are still in orbit.
