By Joey Roulette, Published by Yahoo! news, 27 June 2024 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space
Commander of Space Operations Command Lt. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting. Staff photo by Mike Tsukamoto. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 June 2024 Gen. Stephen Whiting: The location of a recently launched Russian satellite in low Earth orbit “doesn’t seem to be accidental” WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Command
L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) By Greg Hadley, Published by Air & Space Forces Magazine, 20 June 2024 The Space Force is working on
(Image credit: SpaceX via X) By Victor Tangermann, Published by Futurism, 15 June 2024 Mgaconstellations could be a disaster for the environment Burning Up SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's atmosphere from healing itself. In a new study, researchers from the University of Southern California estimated the harmful
(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 6 June 2024 ‘In the coming years, the Space Force will likely take additional steps toward a more distributed and proliferated approach for defense space capabilities’ WASHINGTON — An analysis of the U.S. Space Force’s budget proposed for
Through a DARPA project, Slingshot Aerospace created an AI tool to spot nefarious satellites that could be hiding in large constellations. (Northrop Grumman) By Courtney Albon,Published by Defense News, 5 June 2024 As more governments and commercial companies look to proliferated satellite constellations for increased capacity, some defense experts are
