Sierra Space has signed a Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Department of Defense’s Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to develop space transportation solutions for military cargo and personnel. Sierra Space and USTRANSCOM will work […]
BAE Systems has scheduled the launch of its space-based communication project – Azalea. Azalea is a multi-sensor satellite cluster designed to deliver digital intelligence to military customers in real-time. The project supports the UK Government’s Defense […]
DARPA has chosen the winning 11 teams for Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node initiative (Space-BACN.) Space-BACN will seek to develop a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that can translate between various satellite […]
Researchers at MIT have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors for orbiting spacecraft. Plasma sensors, also called retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), are used to determine the chemical composition and ion energy distribution of […]
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 […]
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