Northrop Grumman and NASA recently successfully completed a full-scale static fire test of the solid-fueled Flight Support Booster-2 that will be used to send NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket into space. Flight Support Booster-2 […]
CanX-7 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment-7) – a de-orbiting nanosatellite demonstration mission – has successfully de-orbited a 3.5kg nanosatellite using drag sail technology. The project – based out of UTIAS/SFL (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Division, Crane (NSWC Crane) is working with Kleos Space – a Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service provider (MaaS) – on a project tracking ship movements from space using […]
Student researchers from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a compactable antenna that would allow for more powerful radio communications on smaller satellites. Their project […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued broad agency announcements for three initiatives aimed at improving synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology in satellites. As SAR sensors rely on radar, they can produce images […]
The U.S. Space Force is now receiving data collected by a constellation of about 40 geolocation cubesats operated by Spire Global to detect GPS jamming. The goal of the project is to discover a way to […]
Space Force has launched two additional satellites as part of its Space Domain Awareness initiative (SDA). The satellites are part of the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP). They are capable of locating and identifying […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory recently issued a solicitation for the Real-Time Assessment and Augmentation of Cognitive Performance in Extreme Environments project. The project seeks to develop wearable sensors to detect fatigue and stress […]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has scheduled Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2) for sometime in the year 2023. CRD2 is one of the world’s first technology demonstrations of […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued a solicitation for two technical areas of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) project. Space-BACN will be a reconfigurable, multi-protocol, intersatellite optical communications terminal used to […]
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