“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 […]
The flight of 6GStarLab represents a leap for European non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity.
Environmental reviews, system safety regs, and explosion models, oh my.
DeepSat, a LA-based startup with dreams of building multiple EO monitoring constellations in VLEO, partnered with Redwire last week to develop the initial phase of its planned constellation.
NASA is continuing its tradition of not gatekeeping success by unveiling a major update to its public software catalog.
Lodestar is sending the first iteration of its Mithril product, which has a suite of machine vision sensors and an edge-compute platform.
