India's private space sector skyrockets
Sunday, 01 October 2023 09:25
When Indian entrepreneur Awais Ahmed founded his satellite startup in Bangalore in 2019, his country was still a year away from opening the space industry to the private sector.
"When we started, there was absolutely no support, no momentum," said Ahmed, who was 21 when he founded Pixxel, a company deploying a constellation of Earth imaging satellites.
Since then, the private space sector has taken off in India, joining a rapidly growing global market.
There are now 190 Indian space start-ups, twice as many as a year earlier, with private investments jumping by 77 percent between 2021 and 2022, according to Deloitte consultancy.
"A lot of Indian investors were not willing to look at space technology, because it was too much of a risk earlier," Ahmed said in an interview with AFP.
NASA selects SpaceX for rideshare launch of smallsat mission
Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:49
Record-breaking launch of SpaceX's Starlink satellites
Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:58
SpaceX pushed back the launch time from the original T-0 of 6:49 p.m. EDT (2249 UTC Sep. 30) more than three hours later due to the weather condition. At 10:00 p.m. EDT (0200 UTC Sep. 30), a Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 of SpaceX's "V2 Mini" internet satellites for its Starlink communications network from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florid 
Space Development Agency funds demonstration of satellite laser links in ‘degraded’ environments
Friday, 29 September 2023 17:46
NASA's Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind
Friday, 29 September 2023 15:56
The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater by NASA's Perseverance rover on Aug. 30, 2023, the 899th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The video, which was sped up 20 times, is composed of 21 frames taken four seconds apart by one of the rover's Navcams.
Much weaker and generally smaller than Earth's tornadoes, dust devils are one of the mechanisms that move and redistribute dust around Mars. Scientists study them to better understand the Martian atmosphere and improve their weather models.
Using data from the imagery, mission scientists determined that this particular dust devil was about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away, at a location nicknamed "Thorofare Ridge," and moving east to west at about 12 mph (19 kph). They calculated its width to be about 200 feet (60 meters). And while only the bottom 387 feet (118 meters) of the swirling vortex are visible in the camera frame, the scientists could also estimate its full height.
Eutelsat investors approve OneWeb merger for satellite internet
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:19
Shareholders of European satellite operator Eutelsat approved Thursday a $3.4 billion merger deal with Britain's OneWeb, with the new entity out to become a global broadband internet champion to rival the likes of Elon Musk's Starlink.
The approval came at an extraordinary general meeting for a partnership targeting sales of "some two billion euros ($2.1 billion) in 2027", equivalent to doub ANSRs to Hard AI Questions
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:19
How can we build robust, assured, and therefore trustworthy AI-based systems? That question lies at the heart of DARPA's Assured Neuro Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (ANSR) program.
"Informally, trust is an expression of confidence in an autonomous system's ability to perform an underspecified task," said Dr. Alvaro Velasquez, DARPA's ANSR program manager. "Ensuring autonomous systems wil Artel partners with Rivada for US Space Force contract
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:19
Artel LLC a provider of secure network communication services to U.S. government agencies, has been awarded a Commercial Satellite Communications Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (p-LEO) contract from the U.S. Space Force and is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to provide the next generation network critical to support U.S. Government communications.
Based in the U.S, Artel is a carrier-a Evergreen Innovations manages All-Domain Network at Northern Strike Exercise
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:19
Evergreen Innovations LLC ("Evergreen"), a tactical communications integrator, reports it has successfully managed the All-Domain Network (ADN) during the Northern Strike 23-2 reserve component readiness exercise held July-August at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center, in Michigan.
Northern Strike 23-2, conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense's National Guard Space Systems Command's TAP Lab to accelerate innovation in space domain awareness
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:19
Space Systems Command (SSC), the United States Space Force (USSF) field command, has opened a Tools Applications and Processing (TAP) Lab in Colorado Springs to address critical challenges in space domain awareness. Designed with an open framework to encourage government, industry, academic, and allied collaboration, SSC's newest TAP Lab will engage external partners through Project Apollo, slat Week in images: 25-29 September 2023
Friday, 29 September 2023 12:10
Week in images: 25-29 September 2023
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Ispace revises design of lunar lander for NASA CLPS mission
Friday, 29 September 2023 11:12
Earth from Space: Southern Patagonian Ice Field
Friday, 29 September 2023 07:00
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Part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field with its white glaciers and aquamarine lakes is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 10 January 2023.