AST SpaceMobile announces collaboration with Zain KSA
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), has announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Zain KSA, a leading telecommunications operator in Saudi Arabia. The signing took place at the international LEAP 2023 Tech Conference in Riyadh.
The MoU would enable AST SpaceMobile and Zain KSA to collaborate towards new telecom solutions and satellite-based digital services in Saudi Arabia MDA secures new contract to supply Ka-band multibeam antennas for Argentina's ARSAT-SG1 Satellite
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, has announced a new contract award to design, build and supply all of the Ka-band multibeam antennas for the ARSAT-SG1 satellite. ARSAT is Argentina's national telecommunications company and ARSAT-SG1 will provide high-speed internet as well as digital video and voice servi Shenzhou XV astronauts take their first spacewalk
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
Shenzhou XV mission crew members have just concluded their first spacewalk, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a news release early on Friday morning that mission commander Major General Fei Junlong and Senior Colonel Zhang Lu completed a seven-hour spacewalk and returned to the Wentian science module at 12:16 am (Beijing Time). The third crew member, Senior Colonel D Defense giants are hungry for space companies
Thursday, 09 February 2023 21:45
Large defense companies are itching to buy space assets as part of the market is on the verge of a shake-out, executives discussing deal-making in the industry said Feb.
SpaceX performs Starship static-fire test
Thursday, 09 February 2023 21:11
SpaceX fired nearly all of the engines in the booster of its Starship launch vehicle in a ground test Feb.
Kelly: As rivals challenge U.S. in space, commercial industry needs to ‘step up’
Thursday, 09 February 2023 21:05
In a keynote speech at the Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Kelly highlighted the accomplishments of the U.S.
Military agency praised for leading the way on laser communications
Thursday, 09 February 2023 19:50
By requiring suppliers of laser terminals to comply with a common set of standards, the U.S.
Boeing and Millennium cite benefits of partnership
Thursday, 09 February 2023 18:57
“There’s a handful of programs that we won that we would not have been able to win by ourselves and Boeing wouldn’t have been able to win by themselves,” said Millennium CEO Jason Kim.
A Russian satellite has broken into pieces, littering debris in space
Thursday, 09 February 2023 18:47
A Russian KOSMOS 2499 satellite broke up last month—for a second time—according to the Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron. In a recent tweet, the Space Force said they are currently tracking 85 individual pieces of debris at an altitude of 1,169 km (726 miles). The breakup occurred on January 4, 2023, but the reason for the disintegration remains unknown.
At this high altitude, it will take decades for the debris to deorbit and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. The debris is located in an increasingly busy region in Earth's orbit.
#18SDS has confirmed the breakup of COSMOS 2499 (#39765, 2014-028E)—occurred Jan 4, 2023 at appx 0357 UTC. Tracking 85 associated pieces at est 1169 km altitude—analysis ongoing. #spacedebris#space@SpaceTrackOrg@US_SpaceCom@ussfspoc
— 18th Space Defense Squadron (@18thSDS) February 7, 2023
But this is actually the second breakup event of Kosmos 2499.
Sound test of Hera asteroid mission antenna
Thursday, 09 February 2023 17:35
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Sound test of Hera asteroid mission antenna Artificial intelligence aiding the space business across the board
Thursday, 09 February 2023 15:55
Space companies are finding new ways to exploit artificial intelligence for commercial and national security operations, executives said Feb.
NanoAvionics expands production capacity for constellation transformation
Thursday, 09 February 2023 15:06
Lithuania-based NanoAvionics said it has doubled its small satellite production space to meet the needs of constellation operators.
More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon—two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash
Thursday, 09 February 2023 14:54
Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity's starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, people have been leaving trash around the moon, too.
Today, experts estimate that there are a few dozen pieces of space junk like spent rocket bodies, defunct satellites and mission-related debris orbiting in cislunar space—the space between Earth and the moon and the area around the moon. While this isn't yet a large amount of junk, astronomers have very little information about where these pieces of space debris are, let alone what they are and how they got there.
Juice’s odyssey of exploration
Thursday, 09 February 2023 13:25
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Three-minute cinematic video trailer presenting ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission Galileo signal component tested for Internet of Things use
Thursday, 09 February 2023 10:45
One of Europe's Galileo satellites has been reconfigured to emit a new signal component optimised to serve low-end receiver devices and Internet of Things applications.