By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 24 August 2023 Under a program called ‘Tactically Responsive Space Challenge’ the selected proposals can win awards of up to $1.7 million WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is kicking off a new initiative focused on the rapid deployment of satellites during conflicts or
SBUDNIC, a bread-loaf-sized cube satellite with a drag sail made from Kapton polyimide film, designed and built by students at Brown reentered Earth's atmosphere five years ahead of schedule. Image courtesy of Marco Cross. From Brown University, Published by Phys.org, 24 August 2023 SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team
By Michael Sheetz, Published by CNBC, 24 August 2023 Key Points A second Viasat communications satellite is malfunctioning in orbit, this time from the fleet of recently acquired U.K.-based Inmarsat. The I6 F2 satellite, which Inmarsat launched in February, suffered a failure with its power system while climbing in orbit to
By Frank Landymore, Published by The Byte, 23 August 2023 Nothing to sneeze at! Gassed Up Things are getting kind of gassy at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space tourism firm. Case in point, Bloomberg reports that a Blue Origin facility in West Texas is regularly emitting so much methane during
By Josh Dinner, Publised by Space.com, 23 August 2023 The Pentagon's R&D department wants to study energy and communications infrastructure on the moon. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is seeking rapid development of technologies to support the foundation for an integrated lunar infrastructure. The 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability
By Geeta Pandey, Published by The BBC, 23 August 2023 India has made history as its Moon mission becomes the first to land in the lunar south pole region. With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the
By Soutik Biswas, Published by the BBC, 23 August 2023 The sun lingers slightly above or just below the horizon, while towering mountains project dark shadows. Deep craters provide a haven for unending darkness. Some of these areas have been shielded from sunlight for billions of years. In these regions,
By John Breeden II, Published by Defense One, 23 August 2023 Three teams at the DEF CON 23 convention met a government challenge to hack satellite in orbit. It seems like nothing is off limits for threat actors to target these days. Hospitals, schools, charity organizations and even municipalities have
