By Vilius Petkauskas, Published by cybernews, 4 August 2023 Satellites are full of exploitable vulnerabilities. Attackers could use these flaws to launch themselves into orbit, closer to more valuable targets, a satellite security researcher believes.While it takes a rocket scientist to send a satellite into orbit, apparently, it doesn’t take
By Courtney Albon, Published by DefenseNews, 3 August 2023 WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., threatened to subpoena the Defense Department for documents and interviews related to the Air Force’s decision to base U.S. Space Command Headquarters in Colorado. Rogers, whose home state was in the running
By Gareth Corfield, Published by The Telegraph, 1 August 2023 Just months after Virgin Orbit’s collapse, a spaceport in Shetland is preparing for lift off Scotland’s first rocket launch will probably “blow up” but there might be a customer “prepared to take the risk”, the boss of Shetland’s spaceport has
More than 100 U.S. Space Command personnel and 900 total participants took part in Global Lightning 2021 on March 8-12, which integrated space capabilities into a multi-domain exercise at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. (U.S. Space Command/Lewis Carlyle) By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Associated PressPublished by Defense News,
One of the “standout features” of the discovery is the “remains of a quartz setting,” said the AOC Archaeology member. (File Photo: @SaxaVord_Space) Photograph:(Twitter) By Nishtha Badgamia, Published by Wion News, 30 July 2023 Archaeologists unearthed a 4,000-year-old cemetery in the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland, United Kingdom, last week.
NASA has awarded funds to Austin, Texas-based ICON, to develop construction technologies that could help build landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon using local lunar resources. (Image credit: ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 30 July 2023 "This is now becoming so real." GOLDEN, Colorado
The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space is involved in a legal action against the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to pressure them to create rules/guidelines for the launching of satellites in space. Lower Earth orbit (LEO) is becoming dangerously crowded and NASA scientists are concerned about growing
By Ian Sample, Published by The Guardian, 27 July 2023 European Space Agency to attempt unprecedented manoeuvre despite craft not being designed for controlled re-entry A defunct European satellite is expected to make an unprecedented return to Earth on Friday when mission controllers guide the spacecraft into a fiery dive
