Ronda Schrenk, USGIF CEO – Leading Women in Space
Thursday, 19 September 2024 11:55Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris
Thursday, 19 September 2024 10:19Just a month after its launch, ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite has already delivered its first images, notably capturing Storm Boris, which has been wreaking havoc across central Europe.
Small launch vehicles press ahead despite market setbacks
Thursday, 19 September 2024 09:47China launches final pair of backup Beidou satellites
Thursday, 19 September 2024 09:42Smallsat manufacturers weigh megafactories versus microfactories
Thursday, 19 September 2024 08:45Greek CubeSats ready for assembly
Thursday, 19 September 2024 06:51It's been just over one year since ESA placed contracts for seven Greek CubeSat missions, which aim to enhance Greece's space capabilities while providing practical benefits to citizens. These CubeSats, developed by small and medium-sized companies and universities across Greece, underscore the nation's expanding space industry and its commitment to advancing space applications, such as secure optical and radio frequency (RF) connectivity, IoT communications, earth observation and RF spectrum monitoring. The missions are a collaboration of scientists, engineers and space industry partners from across Greece.
Blacksky wins contract to gather imagery of space objects
Thursday, 19 September 2024 05:54Belgian spacetech gem VEOWARE secures €2,5 million euro to empower spacecrafts with next-generation agility
Thursday, 19 September 2024 04:00Boeing to demonstrate air-space sensor fusion for U.S. military operations
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 20:55LEO takes center stage for communications at sea
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 20:48Simple shift could make low Earth orbit satellites high capacity
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:03Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites' potential has been stymied by a technological limitation - their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time. The one-to-one ratio means that companies must launch either constellations of many satellites, or large individual satellites with many arrays, to prov
SpaceX launches European Galileo satellites to medium Earth orbit
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:03SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, successfully delivering its navigation satellite constellation to a medium Earth orbit, despite questionable weather earlier in the day. The mission to deliver two Galileo satellites launched on time at 6:50 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Flori
Trinity Capital commits $30M in funding to Slingshot Aerospace
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:03Trinity Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIN), a leader in providing financial solutions to companies focused on growth, has committed $30 million in growth capital to Slingshot Aerospace. Slingshot Aerospace is a key player in AI-driven satellite tracking, space traffic management, and space simulation technologies. Slingshot, headquartered in El Segundo, CA, specializes in building mission-critica
Vegetable seeds from space thrive in Shanxi county, boosting yields
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:03Some vegetable seeds that were sent into space have now been successfully cultivated in Yanggao county, Shanxi province, a key region for vegetable production in China. The seeds, which included tomatoes, okra, eggplant, giant pumpkins, and red peppers, were grown in the greenhouses at the Hualian Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center. According to Wang Shouming, a technician at the
ESA concludes observations of asteroid 2024 RW1
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:03On 4 September 2024 at 16:39 UTC (18:39 CEST), the small asteroid 2024 RW1 entered Earth's atmosphere near the Philippines, creating a bright fireball witnessed by people across the region. The event, though spectacular, was not unexpected, thanks to the swift and coordinated efforts of global astronomers, including teams from ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), who tracked the