Space Force Taps Five Companies For Jam Resistant Comms
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.
Smithsonian Opens New ‘Futures in Space’ Hall
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.
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.
Blue Canyon Technologies: Expanding the Frontiers of Science and Defense
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…
Open Cosmos is Poised to Break the 6G Barrier
The flight of 6GStarLab represents a leap for European non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity.
What is the FAA planning for rocket launch licenses?
Environmental reviews, system safety regs, and explosion models, oh my.
Redwire to Develop VLEO Constellation for DeepSat
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 Releases Updated Software Catalog
NASA is continuing its tradition of not gatekeeping success by unveiling a major update to its public software catalog.
Lodestar is Building an In-Space Bodyguard
Lodestar is sending the first iteration of its Mithril product, which has a suite of machine vision sensors and an edge-compute platform.
European Satcoms are Coming Around to Standardization
All.Space, the UK company building terminals that can connect to multiple satcom networks, won a €3.42M ESA contract this week to develop capabilities for the startup’s terminals to connect to 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTNs).
ILRS Member Senegal Joins Artemis Accords
“Senegal chooses to join the great human adventure that has always driven us to explore the unknown,” Maram Kairé, the director general of the Senegalese Agency for Space Studies, said at a ceremony at NASA HQ in DC. “This signature marks a meaningful step in our space diplomacy and in our ambition to contribute to the peaceful exploration of outer space.”
