The Pentagon and Silicon Valley Game Out The Tech Arms Race
“A huge part of it is also trying to break down barriers between the private sector and public sector.”
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Stories about the tech that’s driving the new space age.
Northrop’s New Radar Can See GEO Through the Clouds
Northrop Grumman plans to build three DARC sites around the world to maintain a global, 24/7 watch on GEO.
Agile Space Industries Wins Nyx Thruster Contract
The contract is the result of a rapid development process, in which Agile designed, 3D-printed, assembled, and hotfire-tested the DS250 in just 10 weeks.
Umbra Debuts Merchant Space Systems Business
“Every Y Combinator funding round seems to now include some space companies.”
Death to the Spreadsheet: ANT Automates Constellation Design
Building a satellite constellation? Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) says you shouldn’t need a PhD and a month of meetings to get started.
Muon Space Unveils the First Mission of its Upgraded Bus
The upgraded version of its MuSat, called MuSat XL, can fly up to 300kg of payload in LEO, and already has its first customer: Hubble Network.
AWS Wants KSAT to Send More Space Data to the Cloud
“They can just go into their AWS account, open up the file, and there’s the data.”
X-37B Gearing Up for Eighth Mission to Orbit
The Boeing-developed X-37B will carry several experiments designed to advance the DoD’s in-space capabilities and resilience.
Will NASA’s Next Mars Mission Be A Fleet of Helicopters?
The success of the Ingenuity helicopter has teed up a more ambitious vision of aerial exploration on the Red Planet.
NASA Releases Updated Software Catalog
NASA is continuing its tradition of not gatekeeping success by unveiling a major update to its public software catalog.
Rotating Detonation Engine Startup Wins NASA TechLeap Prize
Juno is seeking to build a commercially viable RDE to lower propulsion costs for launch companies and sat operators without sacrificing thrust.
Hubble Network Plans 60 Sat Bluetooth-Tracking Constellation
Hubble Network launched its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) finding network to track devices anywhere in the world.