By Jon Gertner, Published by The New York Times Magazine, 8 November 2023 Inside the highly secretive military branch responsible for protecting American interests in a vulnerable new domain. What’s most concerning isn’t the swarm of satellites but the types. “We know that there are kinetic kill vehicles,” Lerch said
By Andrew Falle, Ewan Wright, Published by The Conversation, 7 November 2023 As the number of satellites in orbit increase, so will the possibilities of space debris. There are currently 8,000 satellites in orbit, but hundreds of thousands more are being proposed. In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning
LeoLabs’ Rendezvous and Proximity Dashboard shows one approach made by Cosmos-2562 to Resurs-P3 (left), eventually coming into proximity (right). For almost a year, the objects appeared to maneuver one to two times a week based on in-track distance history. Credit: LeoLabs By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 6 November 2023
Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia Published by Consortium News, 3 November 2023 The Pine Gap U.S. surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 31 October 2023 The goal of the accelerator is to bring industry, government and academia together to integrate SDA computer systems to "fully leverage" data from myriad sources across the Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, other government agencies, allies and commercial firms —
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command established the U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific, the USSF’s first overseas component to a combatant command. (DVDS) By Sarah Mneiro, Published by Breaking Defense, 30 October 2023 The Space Force is coming up on its fourth birthday, and has made significant progress in establishing itself as part
Diagram of message-sending from Vienna to Beijing through space-ground integrated quantum network using China's Micius satellite, which launched in 2016. (Image credit: CAS/Pan Jianwei's team) By Andrew Jones, Published by Space.com, 30 October 2023 China is planning new, cutting-edge quantum communications satellites. China launched the first dedicated quantum communications satellite, named Micius,
Rendering of missile-warning space sensor. Credit: L3Harris Technologies By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 30 October 2023 The MEO satellite program will follow the Space Development Agency’s multi-vendor approach WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is moving forward with plans to procure 27 missile-defense satellites for a medium Earth orbit
