Satellite models to strike a pose for competing AIs
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 11:00
Movie special effects fans like to debate CGI versus traditional model effects – an issue about which competing AIs will soon gain direct experience. Trained upon computer-generated images of satellites, AIs will go on to judge the position and orientation of realistic mockups snapped in space-like lighting conditions.
NGA looking to tap ‘all sources of innovation in the commercial space’
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 10:07
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched several initiatives to team up with the private sector and make it easier for new entrants to do business with the government
A step toward making GPS more resilient to space weather
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 09:58
Societies around the world now depend on satellite-based navigation systems, such as GPS, for a multitude of applications, including transportation, agriculture, military munitions, emergency services, and social networking, among others.
SES CEO thinks satellite industry consolidation likely
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 09:16
The CEO of satellite operator SES says consolidation of the satellite industry is more likely than ever to improve its overall return on investment, but that the structure of the industry might hinder such deals.
Visitors with disabilities at ESA Open Day
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 08:29
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Visitors with disabilities at ESA Open Day A European push to the Moon
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:30
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The European Space Agency is playing a vital role in humankind’s return to the Moon. In a few months NASA will launch Artemis I from the Kennedy Space Center. The uncrewed mission will carry NASA’s Orion spacecraft incorporating ESA’s European Service Module (ESM-1), built and tested by Airbus Bremen, in Germany, with the help of 10 European nations. ESM-1’s main engine and 32 thrusters will propel Orion into orbit around the Moon and return it to Earth.
As Artemis I prepares for launch, the second European Service Module (ESM-2) is about to ship to the US with ESM-3
Russian actress, director enter space station to film movie
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
A Russian actor, director and cosmonaut entered the International Space Station Tuesday, where they will stay nearly two weeks to film the first full-length movie shot in space.
The newcomers came aboard the space station just after 11 a.m. EDT. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who piloted the Soyuz spacecraft, entered first, followed by actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko. Lockheed Martin opens intelligent, advanced hypersonic strike production facility
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
Lockheed Martin is breaking barriers in hypersonic technology, adding to its world-class portfolio another milestone with the grand opening of an advanced production facility in Courtland, Alabama, focused on hypersonic strike production. Capitalizing on critical digital factory capabilities to deliver this technology, the corporation is working closely with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) First planet to orbit 3 Stars discovered
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
In a distant star system - a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth - UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
Unlike our solar system, which consists of a solitary star, it is believed that half of all star systems, like GW Ori where astronomers observed the novel phenomenon, consist of two or more stars that are gravitationally boun Is new finding an asteroid a comet or both
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
The newest known example of a rare type of object in the Solar System - a comet hidden among the main-belt asteroids - has been found and studied, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh. Discovered to be active on July 7, 2021, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey, asteroid (248370) 2005 QN137 is just the eighth main-be UAE spacecraft to explore asteroid belt after Mars success
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
The United Arab Emirates will launch a spacecraft to explore a major asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officials said Tuesday, after a UAE probe reached the red planet early this year.
The five-year journey from 2028 will traverse 3.6 billion kilometres (2.2 billion miles), with the unmanned craft drawing on gravity assists from Earth and Venus to reach the main asteroid belt beyond Ma Space Systems Command awards $46.5 million contract for meshONE-Terrestrial
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command's (SSC) Cross-Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise (ECX) has awarded a cost-plus fixed fee contract totaling $46.5 million to Sev1Tech LLC of Woodbridge, Virginia. The contract was awarded through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement for meshONE-T.
This prototype effort will deploy and demons SBIRS GEO-6 Space Vehicle completes production
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
Space Systems Command's (SSC) Production Corps achieved a major milestone with the completion of the final Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, SBIRS Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)-6 on Sept. 2 at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California production facility.
SBIRS GEO-6 will begin final preparations for a scheduled launch in the first half of 2022 on a United Launch Alliance Atl Cesiumastro deploys active phased array experimental satellites
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
CesiumAstro, Inc. announces the successful launch and deployment of its first two satellites featuring their leading-edge communications payloads aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. Dubbed Cesium Mission 1(CM1), the duo of satellites will provide an on-orbit testbed for next generation wireless communications and sensing technologies.
"We will see major advancements over th HawkEye 360 reaches contractual milestone for delivering space-based radio frequency mapping
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 07:12
HawkEye 360 reports it has secured new contracts totaling over $50 million in potential value since the start of the year as its next generation satellites have become operational.
"HawkEye 360 is experiencing an exceptional year, with record growth in customer engagements and bookings," said HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini.
"We're building depth of customers across the United States,