Iceye Gen4 synthetic aperture radar satellite. Credit: Iceye By Debra Werner, Published by Space News, 5 August 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Capella Space, Iceye U.S. and Umbra to expand the U.S. government’s use of commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The contracts, awarded
DARC technical demonstrator in White Sands, New Mexico By Martin Shipton, Published by Nation Cymru, 21 July 2026 Campaigners against a controversial plan by the US military to build a radar system in west Wales are celebrating a decision by the Welsh Government to “call in” the planning application. PARC
Rebecca Evernden, director of the U.K. Space Agency, speaks at the Spacetide conference in Tokyo July 6. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 14 July 2026 WASHINGTON — The British government is preparing to release a new space strategy that will provide a “whole-of-government” approach for
Iran’s Khayyam satellite, the countryÆs only high-resolution imaging satellite, took this image of the Vogtle nuclear power plant in US state of Georgia.[4] By Matthew Mowthorpe, Markos Trichas and Damian Terrill, Published by The Space Review, 13 July 2026 This article analyzes how Iran used access to both commercial satellite
Published by The Yorkshire Post, 5 July 2026 Campaigners made their annual Independence Day protest near RAF Menwith Hill at the weekend. The event was organised by the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign (MHAC) and Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) to draw attention to what they claim is a lack of accountability
Victus Haze Mission By Tim Fernholz, Published by Tech Crunch, 2 July 2026 Militaries routinely send satellites to fly by rival vehicles and suss out their capabilities, but scaling up this kind of reconnaissance is increasingly seen by the U.S. military as a challenge best handled by the private sector.
The remnants of a supernova, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, 160,000 light years distant. X-RAY: NASA/ESA/CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY/HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE By Nick Dowson, Published by New Internationalist, 1 July 2026 A new space race between billionaires and global superpowers is set
By Paul Scharre, Published by Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2026 How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage In its recent campaign against Iran, the United States dominated the skies using its traditional airpower. The U.S. military pounded Iranian targets, conducting over 13,000 strikes. That prowess and devastating firepower did not
