The former chief executive of Spaceflight has joined a major law firm to lead its efforts in supporting the commercial space industry.

SES said June 15 that Luxembourg has approved a program to carve out capacity from its O3b mPower medium Earth orbit broadband network for the country and NATO allies.

Image: As climate change increases the risk of wildfires across the globe, the spate of fires that hit Canada in May and June suggest that 2023 is on course to be the country’s worst fire season to date. These fires not only

Over 90 participants were up for the challenge to visualise just how much we know and don’t know in the Universe and explain the #CosmicMystery that ESA’s Euclid mission will soon begin to investigate. From songs, crochets and animations to apparel, paintings and baked goods, the creativity of participants amazed the judges.

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2023
Teamwork makes the dream work, and at NASA that doesn't apply only to humans. Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley are developing satellite swarms, which are groups of spacecraft working together as a unit, without being managed individually by mission controllers. A swarm's ability to perform autonomously will make new types of science and exploration possib

Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jun 15, 2023
The Venus atmosphere may be used as a natural laboratory to understand the evolution of Earth-like planets, according to a study led by the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) Venus and Earth are located in nearly the same region of the Solar System and have similar sizes and densities, but their atmospheres and conditions at the surface are radically different. If observed at a

San Antonio, TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2023
The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Christopher Glein has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus contains a key building block for life. The team directly detected phosphorus in the form of phosphates originating from the moon's ice-covered global o

Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 14, 2023
ICEYE, the global leader in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully expanded its constellation with four new synthetic aperture radar ("SAR") satellites on June 12. The launch on SpaceX's Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare mission via Exolaunch was conducted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. Each spacec

Los Gatos CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2023
Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) and E-Space, the company bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services, has announced a teaming agreement to collaborate, develop and deploy innovative space-based communications solutions and IoT services to support predominantly government and targeted commercial customers. The collaboration will leve