By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 7 August 2024 The Army’s recent guidance on the role of space in land warfare focuses on two objectives: integrating space capabilities into ground forces’ operations and developing ways to interdict adversary space systems. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is taking cues from
An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Greg Hadley, Published by Air and Space Forces, 1 July 2024 As SpaceX begins to decommission and “deorbit” 100 of its oldest Starlink satellites, the Space Force is gathering crucial data and real-world experience for Guardians.
By Josh Taylor, Published by The Guardian, 19 June 2024 A ‘legitimate grievance’ with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says Police have used the “very legitimate grievance” the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection
In contrast to LeoLabs' West Australian Space Radar shaped like a halfpipe, the new S-band 2-D Direct Radiating Array is flat and square. Credit: LeoLabs By Debra Werner, Published by Space News, 13 June 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs announced plans June 13 to build a new type of radar under a
Through a DARPA project, Slingshot Aerospace created an AI tool to spot nefarious satellites that could be hiding in large constellations. (Northrop Grumman) By Courtney Albon,Published by Defense News, 5 June 2024 As more governments and commercial companies look to proliferated satellite constellations for increased capacity, some defense experts are
The National Reconnaissance Office's sixth and final mission of 2020 launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 19. (SpaceX) By Audrey Decker, Published by Defense One, 22 May 2024 The agency wants to quadruple the number of its satellites in orbit. The National Reconnaissance Office launched an undisclosed
The Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory site on the island of Maui is owned by the University of Hawaii. Tenants include the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Maui Optical Station (AMOS). Credit: KBR By Paula Dobbyn, Published by Civil Beat, 20 May 2024 The plans for the project on Haleakala's summit drew
By Eric Lipton, Published by Space Weekly, 17 May 2024 The Pentagon is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space, convinced that rapid advances by China and Russia in space-based operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military assets on the ground and American
