Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2024
Maxar Intelligence has been chosen by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to support its Luno A program, a $290 million, five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. This initiative aims to deliver advanced geospatial insights and automated object detections using Maxar's cutting-edge capabilities. Through the Luno A contract, Maxar will deploy its soph

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2024
SpaceX set a record for the most launches by a first-stage booster Wednesday morning when one of its Falcon 9 rockets lifted a new round of Starlink satellites into space. The Cape Canaveral Space Force Staton launch at 5:13 a.m., EDT from Florida was the 24th time the first stage was used. The booster landed safely on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas roughly nine minutes after t

Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2024
Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet's surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water. Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is only one of two possible liquids under what are

Washington (AFP) Dec 4, 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, as the next head of NASA. The nod raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, given Isaacman's financial ties to SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who is set to co-lead a government efficiency commission and is one of Trum

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. Their characteristics reveal that new galaxies are forming in these large cosmic cities, with the finding that gravitational interactions in these dense regions are not as important as previously thought.

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Not because it is easy but because it is hard: this historic space phrase is pretty much the definition of ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 mission, which will employ precise formation flying to produce artificial total solar eclipses in orbit, casting a shadow from one spacecraft to the other. No-one has ever flown a mission like this, up until now. So how is it going to work? Find out in this second trailer video.

Launch now scheduled for Thursday 5 December

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2024
Ovzon and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have expanded their collaboration with a new teaming agreement aimed at bolstering sovereign space and satellite capabilities. The strengthened partnership builds on their successful collaboration and targets innovative solutions for Sweden, the Nordics, and NATO allies across various operational domains. Sovereign space capabilities are critical f

London, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2024
SSTL has announced the signing of a letter of intent with LatConnect 60 (LC60) to collaborate on the development of space-based Short-Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) payloads. This partnership builds on the HERCHI project, which SSTL has undertaken with the support of the UK Space Agency. The agreement strengthens the ongoing collaboration between SSTL and LC60, which has already seen both companies

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2024
Urban environments pose unique challenges for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), with tall buildings, vehicles, and other obstacles often disrupting signals and causing Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) errors. To address this, researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven solution using the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM), offering a new level of precision in iden