UK backs next-generation satellite communications with £6.9 million investment

Published by GOV.UK, 21 November 2025 The UK Space Agency is investing £6.9 million in satellite technology that will transform connectivity and secure Britain’s place as a European space leader. The funding will support five groundbreaking projects through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) programme,

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A composite image showing rows of Starlink satellites awaiting deployment into low Earth orbit in front of a picture of Earth taken from the International Space Station. (Image credit: SpaceX via X)

Secretive SpaceX satellites operated by US government are shooting disruptive radio signals into space, astronomer accidentally discovers

SpaceX's Starshield satellites are covert versions of the company's Starlink spacecraft operated by U.S. agencies. This 2023 image shows a batch of Starlink satellites just before they were released into low Earth orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Harry Baker, Published by Live Science, 18 November 2025 An amateur astronomer has

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The space company will reportedly build hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits The space company will reportedly build hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits Credit: Cheney Orr/Reuters

US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

By Jon Brodkin, Published by Ars technica, 14 November 2025 It seems US didn’t coordinate Starshield’s unusual spectrum use with other countries. Image of a Starshield satellite from SpaceX's website. Credit: SpaceX About 170 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have been sending

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