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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‘Shockingly large’ amount of sensitive satellite communications are unencrypted and vulnerable to interception, researchers find

The Defense Innovation Unit's hybrid space architecture project is to link multiple ground communications systems with diverse satellite networks. Credit: DIU By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space.com, 10 November 2025 "It was quite shocking to us." Cybersecurity researchers have intercepted vast quantities of private voice calls and text messages, including

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Managing space domain awareness data has become a greater challenge than collecting it

Space domain awareness is critical for the military's flexibility and responsiveness in space. Image generated via DALL-E. By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 6 November 2025 Demand has never been greater for the monitoring of objects in orbit and the coordination of their safe movement. The number of active

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