By Theresa Hitschens, Published by Breaking Defense, 19 April, 2023 The Space Force is rushing to meet SPACECOM's demand, developing a new acquisition plan for space "mobility and logistics" — including on-orbit servicing and repair, satellite refueling and space junk cleanup — a plan that will lean heavily on use
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 19 April 2023 "Our T1TL solution builds on our decades of end-to-end mission expertise." Northrop Grumman completed a critical design review of a Space Development Agency (SDA) communications satellite in only 13 months. As SpaceNews points out, that is a fraction of the
By Stephen Chen, Published by scmp, 15 April 2023 Researchers from Wuhan University say they gave the technology full control of a satellite and set it free for 24 hours The artificial intelligence machine picked a few places and ordered the small near-Earth orbiter to take a closer look Chinese
By Elizabeth Howell, Publishd by Space.com, 12 April 2023 The Federal Communications Commission plans to streamline its space activities to meet fast-growing space safety needs. The fast-growing space debris issue is top of mind at a new space-focused division of the U.S. government. "Satellite and orbital debris rules" will be one of
Israel's Ofek-13 reconnaissance satellite takes off from central Israel on March 29, 2023. (Defense Ministry) By Emmanuel Fabian, Published by The Times of Israel, 10 April 2023 Israel’s newest spy satellite has begun beaming back its first pictures, nearly two weeks after it was launched into orbit, the Defense Ministry
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 8 April 2023 Not happy with America's ability to precisely track adversarial satellites, Maj. Gen. David Miller fumed, "Somebody's got to figure this out. The American people have paid for this. Somebody's got to deliver." WASHINGTON — US Space Command’s urgent requirement for
By Parth Satam, Published by the Eurasian Times, 8 April 2023 The US aims to overwhelm Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 500 communications, data transfer, and missile tracking satellites. The first batch of 10 satellites was launched on April 2. SDA director Derek M.
HEO Robotics captured this view of a Starlink V2 Mini satellite in orbit shortly after it launched. By Passant Rabie, Published by gizmodo, 4 April 2023 The first batch of Elon Musk's upgraded Starlink internet satellites experienced issues shortly after launching last month. It’s been a little over a month
