This photo was taken by an amateur astronomer in a suburban location in Western Australia. The circular tracks are stars. The much brighter straight tracks are all satellites, except for one track which is a meteor. By Stuart Clark, Published by the Guardian, 12 September 2020 Miniature satellites open up
By David Hambling, Published by Forbes, 24 July 2020 The American and British governments have criticized Russia for testing "what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry" according to Dr. Christopher Ford, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. The test involved “nesting doll” or “Matryoshka” satellites stalking an American
By Baxter Dmitry, Published by News Punch, 9 May 2020 Almost every corner of the planet will soon be monitored by video surveillance satellites capable of live-streaming coverage of human activity for “governments and large enterprises”— if Bill Gates gets his way. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a company
The National Reconnaissance Office's sixth and final mission of 2020 launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 19. (SpaceX) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 4 May 2020 WASHINGTON: For the first time, Space Command is working with the operator and builder of America’s spy satellites, the
The one-megawatt TEM as proposed in 2010. By Bart Hendrickx, Published by The Space Review, 7 October 2019 There is strong evidence from publicly available sources that a Russian company called KB Arsenal is working on a new type of military satellite equipped with a nuclear power source. Called Ekipazh,
(3DSculptor/Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto) By Niall Firth, Published by MIT Technology Review, 26 June 2019 Satellites are so crucial that attacking them could be seen as an act of war. The bad news is, it may have already happened. In March, India became only the fourth country in the world—after
