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Space loves AI, AI doesn’t love Space

Image Credit: SpaceNews Midjourney illustration By Debra Werner, Published by SpaceNews, 11 March 2024 Space-related applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning are often confined to the ground because moving AI onboard satellites, while promising, is significantly more difficult. “Running AI in space is like running a marathon on the moon

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A U.S. Space Force technician conducts GPS interference training with a GPS electromagnetic attack system at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. U.S. adversaries will attempt to jam GPS signals during conflicts. Credit: SpaceNews photo illustration/U.S. Space Force photo by Ethan Johnson

Space Force eyes smaller, cheaper GPS satellites to augment constellation

A U.S. Space Force technician conducts GPS interference training with a GPS electromagnetic attack system at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. U.S. adversaries will attempt to jam GPS signals during conflicts. Credit: SpaceNews photo illustration/U.S. Space Force photo by Ethan Johnson By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 4 March 2024 The

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The Role of the Space Domain in the Russia-Ukraine War

Satellite dishes attached to a ruined home in Hostomel, Ukraine. NurPhotoGetty Images By Theodora Ogden, Anna Knack, Mélusine Lebret, James Black and Vasilios Mavroudis, Publshed by CETAS, February 2024 Introduction Since the invasion of February 2022, Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine has become an attritional grind, inflicting heavy losses

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Lt. Gen. David Miller, U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command commander, speaks at a change of command ceremony at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., Jan. 9, 2024. Credit; Dennis Rogers Credit: (U.S. Space Force Photo/Dennis R

Space Force to lean on private sector for space tracking data

Lt. Gen. David Miller, U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command commander, speaks at a change of command ceremony at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., Jan. 9, 2024. Credit; Dennis Rogers Credit: (U.S. Space Force Photo/Dennis R By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 27 February 2024 Lt. Gen. Miller, head of Space

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Russian space nuke wouldn’t alter US orbital-network plans, Space Force says

The Space Development Agency's constellation “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture" was formerly known as the “National Defense Space Architecture." Credit: SDA By Audrey Decker, Published by Defense One, 27 February 2024 The nascent Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is built on the idea that lots of satellites offer plenty of redundancy. Reports

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Northrop Grumman's concept art for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM program.

Space Force bucks fixed-price trend for nuclear command satellites

Northrop Grumman's concept art for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM program. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 26 February 2024 Acquisition executive Frank Calvelli said the Space Force will award cost-plus contracts for the upcoming Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications System WASHINGTON — In a departure from recent guidance, the Space

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