Researchers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC) have developed a lightweight fuel tank for small-scale satellites. MiniTANK is a joint effort involving the AMRC and Oxford-based Added Value Solutions (AVS) UK […]
The US Space Force has announced the initial operational capability and operational acceptance of its Space Fence radar surveillance system. Located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the system will be the most sensitive […]
The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are partnering on two new projects that will explore unknown or potentially hazardous environments: using drones to monitor disaster-stricken regions or toxic spill sites; […]
NanoAvionics has received a contract to provide its flight-proven nano-satellite bus in a 12U configuration for the Singaporean research mission, “Cathode-Less Micro Propulsion Satellite” (CaLeMPSat). CaLeMPSat will occupy more than 9U of payload volume. To […]
Nalu Scientific, which specializes in advanced integrated circuits, and Space Micro, which is focused on satellite electronics, have been selected for funding by the U.S. Air Force in a program designed to help the agency […]
Innovative Space Logistics B.V. (ISL) and UK-based orbital launch services provider Orbex recently signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement which will include technical launch services, including launch manifest coordination and payload integration. As part of the […]
The secretary of the United States Army has designated the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC) as the Army’s representative to identify and advocate for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) […]
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have partnered to study the sun’s outer corona with the goal of gaining a better understanding of how solar events affect Earth’s atmosphere […]
A Soyuz-2-1a rocket launched a pair of Kanopus V Earth-watching spacecraft, accompanied by 26 hitchhiking payloads on December 27, 2018. The main payload is comprised of the Kanopus-V No. 5 and No. 6 satellites which […]
Yoav Schechner, an expert in computer vision and computed tomography from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Ilan Koren, an expert in cloud and rain physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, have collaborated to […]
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