Orbit introduces compact MPT30Ka SATCOM terminal for tactical platforms
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. has launched the MPT30Ka SATCOM On-The-Move terminal, its smallest satellite communications system designed for military vehicles, maritime platforms, and rapid response missions. The compact solution combines low power consumption with high-capacity connectivity, ensuring reliable performance under challenging operational conditions.
Modern military platfo
Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. has launched the MPT30Ka SATCOM On-The-Move terminal, its smallest satellite communications system designed for military vehicles, maritime platforms, and rapid response missions. The compact solution combines low power consumption with high-capacity connectivity, ensuring reliable performance under challenging operational conditions.
Modern military platfo DIA expands missile and space intelligence campus with groundbreaking for Phase II analysis facility
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
The Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center has launched construction of its Phase II Modeling Analysis and Computer Exploitation facility at the Huntsville campus. The new project is designed to expand U.S. capabilities in space and missile defense analysis.
The groundbreaking event was hosted by Acting DIA Director Christine Bordine and attended by Alabama Rep
The Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center has launched construction of its Phase II Modeling Analysis and Computer Exploitation facility at the Huntsville campus. The new project is designed to expand U.S. capabilities in space and missile defense analysis.
The groundbreaking event was hosted by Acting DIA Director Christine Bordine and attended by Alabama Rep Global study maps regions most threatened by ocean plastic pollution
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
As plastic waste grows into a critical global environmental challenge, Tulane University researchers have released the first worldwide evaluation of where plastics create the highest ecological dangers for marine ecosystems.
The analysis shows that the most at-risk zones are not always the infamous garbage patches but often areas where plastic overlaps with dense marine life and chemical p
As plastic waste grows into a critical global environmental challenge, Tulane University researchers have released the first worldwide evaluation of where plastics create the highest ecological dangers for marine ecosystems.
The analysis shows that the most at-risk zones are not always the infamous garbage patches but often areas where plastic overlaps with dense marine life and chemical p First data released from Beyond Gravity instrument on new weather sat
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
First measurements from Beyond Gravity's advanced radio occultation instrument aboard Europe's latest polar-orbiting weather satellite are already showing the potential to improve future forecasting accuracy.
Launched in mid-August from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6 rocket, the Metop Second Generation satellite has now begun returning preliminary observations. These in
First measurements from Beyond Gravity's advanced radio occultation instrument aboard Europe's latest polar-orbiting weather satellite are already showing the potential to improve future forecasting accuracy.
Launched in mid-August from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6 rocket, the Metop Second Generation satellite has now begun returning preliminary observations. These in Scientists tune in to the surf's hidden signals
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Along the coast, waves break with a familiar sound. The gentle swash of the surf on the seashore can lull us to sleep, while the pounding of storm surge warns us to seek shelter.
Yet these are but a sample of the sounds that come from the coast. Most of the acoustic energy from the surf is far too low in frequency for us to hear, traveling through the air as infrasound and through the grou
Along the coast, waves break with a familiar sound. The gentle swash of the surf on the seashore can lull us to sleep, while the pounding of storm surge warns us to seek shelter.
Yet these are but a sample of the sounds that come from the coast. Most of the acoustic energy from the surf is far too low in frequency for us to hear, traveling through the air as infrasound and through the grou Tech from NASA's hurricane-hunting TROPICS rides commercial satellites
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
NASA science and American industry have worked hand-in-hand for more than 60 years, transforming novel technologies created with NASA research into commercial products like cochlear implants, memory-foam mattresses, and more. Now, a NASA-funded device for probing the interior of storm systems has been made a key component of commercial weather satellites.
The novel atmospheric sounder was
NASA science and American industry have worked hand-in-hand for more than 60 years, transforming novel technologies created with NASA research into commercial products like cochlear implants, memory-foam mattresses, and more. Now, a NASA-funded device for probing the interior of storm systems has been made a key component of commercial weather satellites.
The novel atmospheric sounder was Ageing UK nuclear plants to run longer: operators
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
London (AFP) Sept 2, 2025
Two British nuclear power plants nearing the end of their lifespan will run for an extra year, its operators announced Tuesday, helping with UK energy security and net zero targets.
The Heysham 1 plant in northwest England and the Hartlepool facility in the northeast will continue generating energy until March 2028, an increase of one year, main operator EDF said in a statement.
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Two British nuclear power plants nearing the end of their lifespan will run for an extra year, its operators announced Tuesday, helping with UK energy security and net zero targets.
The Heysham 1 plant in northwest England and the Hartlepool facility in the northeast will continue generating energy until March 2028, an increase of one year, main operator EDF said in a statement.
The Fren Embry-Riddle Students Prepare to Launch CubeSat to Study Memory Chip Decay From Radiation
Thursday, 04 September 2025 07:46
Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
After seven years of painstaking work, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student team is finally cleared to launch its second small satellite into orbit.
The CubeSat, named EagleSat-2, will hitch a ride aboard Northrop Grumman's NG-23 rocket mission, scheduled to lift off this month from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The small satellite is designed to investiga
After seven years of painstaking work, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student team is finally cleared to launch its second small satellite into orbit.
The CubeSat, named EagleSat-2, will hitch a ride aboard Northrop Grumman's NG-23 rocket mission, scheduled to lift off this month from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The small satellite is designed to investiga AscendArc lands South Korea’s KT Sat as anchor small GEO customer
Thursday, 04 September 2025 03:01
Portland, Oregon-based AscendArc has sold its first small geostationary communications satellite to KT Sat, South Korea’s flagship operator.
Senate hearing raises doubts about NASA’s ability to get astronauts to the moon before China
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 19:51
A former NASA administrator told senators he believed it was “highly unlikely” the agency would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there.
Telesat to offer blocks of satellite bandwidth to DoD for Golden Dome
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 19:34
The satellite operator is positioning its Lightspeed LEO constellation as a data-transport solution for the Pentagon’s missile defense shield
Stakeholders in direct-to-device services have to act now to defend their interests at the WRC-27
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 12:00
Last February, I wrote that the merger of the satellite and terrestrial cellular industry was not yet a marriage made in heaven.
Companies race to win ground transportation contracts for the moon
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 10:00
Spacedock to demonstrate modular payload interface with Oligo and Melagen
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 10:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Spacedock, a Silicon Valley startup formerly known as Orbital Outpost X, announced plans Aug.
Live demonstration shows reliable satellite-5G connectivity on the move
Wednesday, 03 September 2025 08:32
Making video calls while travelling – or when faced with an unstable internet connection – just got easier, thanks to a technology that allows devices to seamlessly bond satellite and ground connections. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently partnered with British advanced networking technology company UniVirtua to conduct a live demonstration of the dashAlpha platform, which could be used to uninterruptedly connect vehicles essential to disaster relief as well as self-driving cars.