Aethero is preparing to deploy its most powerful computing payload yet this fall, aiming to bring data center-style processing to orbit and expand the scale of AI workloads that can be handled in space.

Aethero is preparing to deploy its most powerful computing payload yet this fall, aiming to bring data center-style processing to orbit and expand the scale of AI workloads that can be handled in space.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Commercial satellite operator PlanetiQ will develop and launch spacecraft equipped with next-generation instruments to gather terrestrial and space weather data with a $15 million U.S.

SpaceX reportedly completed a full-duration static fire test of its Starship Version 3 upper stage in mid-April, giving the company a signal that the upgraded megarocket may be ready for a debut launch targeted for early or mid-May. The test, conducted at the company’s facilities in Texas, marks a critical checkpoint for a vehicle that […]

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The fruit of years of U.S. counter-narcotics policy in the Eastern Pacific is coming under renewed scrutiny — and the legal questions surrounding the use of military force against suspected drug trafficking vessels are not going away. For decades, U.S. Southern Command, the Coast Guard, and allied naval forces have conducted interdiction operations targeting drug-laden […]

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NASA could lose contact with the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station by the end of this decade. The satellites that keep those missions connected to the ground are dying, and the spacecraft themselves cannot be retrofitted with new radios. If the agency doesn’t secure a replacement communications system before its aging Tracking […]

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Cognitive dissonance theory has taught us for decades that people resolve contradictions by doubling down. New research suggests the opposite: most people simply edit the past. The ones who actually grow are those who can hold two contradictory truths about themselves without rushing to resolve either one.

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Gen. Chance Saltzman has laid out the most detailed case yet for why the U.S. Space Force needs to fundamentally reinvent itself, releasing two strategy documents that describe a future where space conflict looks nothing like what the Pentagon has traditionally planned for. The documents, titled Future Operating Environment 2040 and Objective Force 2040, present […]

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Officials say the Space Development Agency’s ‘go fast’ model will live on under new portfolio-based organization

Early-stage space investor Seraphim Space has formed a global advisory council of industry, policy and investment leaders to inform its long-term strategy as geopolitical and technology advances rapidly reshape the sector.