ManTech tracking foreign influence using open-source intelligence
Monday, 25 April 2022 13:40
ManTech developed a model that uses open-source intelligence to measure the level of foreign influence in any country
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A boom in Earth observation satellites creating new demands for intelligence
Monday, 25 April 2022 12:26
Crises such as the covid pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine are fueling demand for geospatial information
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Capella raises $97 million to expand radar constellation
Monday, 25 April 2022 12:00
Capella Space raised $97 million in a Series C investment round.
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Orbital Insight brings Satellogic data into its platform
Monday, 25 April 2022 11:00
Geospatial intelligence company Orbital Insight announced plans April 25 to bring high-resolution imagery from Satellogic, an Earth observation company based in Argentina, into its geospatial intelligence platform.
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Hubble observations used to answer key exoplanet questions
Monday, 25 April 2022 10:00
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Hubble observations used to answer key exoplanet questions U.S. ASAT ban meant to support U.N. discussions on space threats
Monday, 25 April 2022 09:50
A State Department official said the Biden administration’s announcement of a ban of one kind of ASAT weapon tests was timed to support discussions at an upcoming United Nations forum on norms of behavior in space.
March in space science
Monday, 25 April 2022 08:55
As the last days in space for ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer near and he prepares the European space laboratory Columbus for his colleague ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, European scientific endeavours on the International Space Station in March continued.
Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth
Monday, 25 April 2022 07:45
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the orbiting laboratory on Monday to head back to Earth.
The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Space.
The SpaceX capsule undocked from the ISS at 0110 GMT for the return trip and was Smiling Sam
Monday, 25 April 2022 07:03
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is all smiles after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, last week with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins.
Collectively known as Crew-4, the astronauts flew in from Houston, Texas, USA, and are spending the days ahead in quarantine before being launched this week to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom.
“This is getting real,” said Samantha. “It’s very emotional for me, that this final stretch to the launchpad has started with the landing here, on this runway.” Samantha recalled her childhood fascination watching the
Kleos unveils dedicated, taskable RF monitoring missions
Monday, 25 April 2022 05:00
Kleos Space announced plans April 25 to offer customers dedicated, taskable radio frequency monitoring capabilities.
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Ax-1 undocks from space station after extended stay
Monday, 25 April 2022 00:58
A Crew Dragon undocked from the International Space Station April 24 carrying four private astronauts who spent nearly twice as long on the station as originally planned.
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Crew of first private flight to ISS prepare for Earth return
Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:12
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station was set on Sunday to leave the orbiting laboratory and head back to Earth.
The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Space.
A SpaceX capsule was scheduled to undock from the ISS at 8:55 pm (0055 GMT Monday) for the return trip, before landing in the ocean off the coast of Florida on Monday around 1:00 pm (1700 GMT).
The four men—three who paid tens of millions of dollars each for the rare chance to take part in the mission, and former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who holds dual US-Spanish citizenship—were originally scheduled to spend only eight days on the space station.
But bad weather on Earth forced repeated delays in their return.
Private passengers Larry Connor, an American who heads a real estate company, Canadian businessman Mark Pathy and Israeli former fighter pilot and entrepreneur Eytan Stibbe had blasted off from Florida on April 8, reaching the ISS a day later.
China to conduct asteroid deflection test around 2025
Sunday, 24 April 2022 11:07
China will aim to change the trajectory of a potentially threatening asteroid with a kinetic impactor test as part of plans for a planetary defense system.
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Today's space domain awareness just got better as new AFRL Space Lab opens
Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:44
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon cutting ceremony April 11 to open a new facility named Skywave Technology Laboratory. The 3,500 square foot, $3.5 million lab is located in a remote area on Kirtland Air Force Base.
Though small in square footage compared to many AFRL labs, in acreage it is one of the largest. The Skywave Lab is situated on 72 acres Roscosmos plans to soon start deliveries of ICBM Sarmat to Russian forces
Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:44
Russian state-owned space agency Roscosmos is planning to start serial shipments of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Sarmat to the Russian strategic missile forces this fall, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.
"This fall, once the Sarmat flight and development tests are completed, we plan to begin supplying serial heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles of thi