The Aurora carried the monitoring suite to the edge of space: Dawn Aerospace By David Szondy, Published by New Atlas, 7 August 2025 Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow made by Scout Space and carried
Image: Pembrokeshire Online Press Release by PARC Against DARC, 6 August 2025 Local residents have gathered in a large number on Newgale beach to display their opposition to the Ministry of Defence and US military’s DARC radar proposal for Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy. The protest, displaying opposition to what would
Artist's illustration of Astroscale's space debris removal system in action. (Image credit: Astroscale) By Andrew Jones, Published by Space.com, 5 August 2025 "Our distributed architecture solves a key challenge in orbital debris removal by enabling the deorbit and reentry of multiple large debris objects sustainably and economically." The Japanese space-sustainability
Up to now, the bulk of military needs for imaging to track moving targets on the ground has come from radar sensors on aircraft. (Image: IMSAR) By Michael Marrow, Published by Breaking Defense, 4 August 2025 Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations,
Joint STARS GMTI data overlaid on overhead imagery. U.S. Air Force By Audrey Decker, Published by Defense One, 4 August 2025 The new capability will first go to forces in the Indo-Pacific first. The Space Force plans to launch satellites that can track vehicles and ships in 2028 and eventually
A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from Xichang spaceport Sept. 17, 2023, carrying a group of Yaogan-39 remote sensing satellites. Credit: Ourspace By Stephen Clark, Published by Ars Technica, 1 August 2025 If it seems like there's a satellite launch almost every day, the numbers will back you up.
Satellite image of Iran's Fordo nuclear plant. Credit: Maxar By Grant Anderson, Published by Space News, 30 July 2025 It can be said with certainty that a lot went into Operation Midnight Hammer. The June 22 precision strike on Iranian strategic weapons production facilities was an airtight operation conducted with
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Conceptual image of a ground-based laser weapon attacking a satellite. Image: X Screengrab By Gabriel Honrada, Published by Asia Times, 27 July 2025 New BGSe crystal a breakthrough in directed-energy tech that could enhance ground-based laser weapons to target satellites China is using crystals to enhance the power of satellite-destroying
