The US subsidiary of the German satellite startup inked a partnership with risk intelligence platform Opterrix to bring near real-time wildfire data into insurers’ risk platforms. The first pilot customer? USAA.
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for French commuters frustrated that their WiFi keeps dropping out over the countryside.
The satellite, expected to launch in early 2026, will deliver radar imagery with submeter resolution that can reveal movements on the ground day and night, and in all weather conditions.
“They can just go into their AWS account, open up the file, and there’s the data.”
Many good ideas are hatched over a beer. One is heading to space this afternoon.
“There needs to be more transparency on how the world is thinking about lunar sustainability,” said Charity Weeden, a former NASA policy chief whose views do not represent the agency. “It’s critical not to mess up, because you don’t necessarily get a second chance.”
NASA says this is its most advanced radar satellite, and the first time a spacecraft has carried SAR payloads in two different bands.
The DoD has invested heavily in finding workarounds when communications are taken offline, and is funding the development of more resilient PNT and comms systems.
Monuments to the commercial space age are getting a new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, just around the corner from historic relics of government-driven space success, like the Mercury Friendship 7 capsule that carried John Glenn to orbit.
The Boeing-developed X-37B will carry several experiments designed to advance the DoD’s in-space capabilities and resilience.
The success of the Ingenuity helicopter has teed up a more ambitious vision of aerial exploration on the Red Planet.
At Blue Canyon Technologies, innovation drives impact. The company’s mission: enable space missions to expand the frontiers of science, and defense. The Boulder, CO-based company manufactures small satellite buses and components. Blue Canyon’s products deliver a standard of performance and precision that didn’t exist for this class of spacecraft a little more than a decade […]
