Aalyria is building a mesh network of laser links to quickly transmit data across land, air, sea, and space. The sea-based piece of that plan is about to get a boost. Yesterday, the DC-based laser comms networking company announced that it signed an MoU with HICO Investment Group, which focuses investment in shipping and logistics […]
When a spacecraft reaches the end of its life, there are a few things you can do. You can leave it there, circling the Earth in, usually, a slowly lowering, uncontrolled orbit for potentially thousands of years, depending on its original altitude. That’s frowned upon—it makes the orbital environment more dangerous for everyone else. You […]
On the heels of a historically bad wildfire season, Canada is investing in better eyes in space.
UC Berkeley has proposed construction of a new $2B facility to boost innovation in space technologies, including astronautics, quantum computing, and climate science initiatives. The university and real-estate developer SKS Partners are eyeing a 36-acre plot at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley for the new complex, dubbed the Berkeley Space Center. The center would play […]
Investment in the space economy is bouncing back from the sagging markets of last year, led by a couple of mega deals centered around investors’ growing appetite for commercial space stations.
Starquakes. Like earthquakes, but in a hot, burning ball of gas, somehow.
In-orbit wireless charging for spacecraft, here we come.
Proteus Space thinks satellite manufacturing takes too damn long.
The most accurate clock in the world will pass 50B years before it falls a single second behind. A clock like that could change everything we know about timekeeping and tracking our position in the world, dramatically transforming the precision of our measurements across the globe in a moment. This type of clock is a […]
GEO operators are on high alert after a Russian craft was spotted maneuvering around in orbit, presumably to take a peek at neighboring satellites.
NASA is scaling up its number of eyes in space after announcing a new slate of partnerships with the commercial smallsat crew on Monday.
Astroscale is working on another new project.
