The National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Space Command last month signed an agreement to improve threat intelligence sharing with commercial satellite operators.

Small satellite operator Lynk Global has started initial direct-to-device services in a small part of the Cook Islands in its second commercial launch with a local telco.

ESA acknowledged Aug. 8 what most of the space industry had long expected: the first flight of the Ariane 6 will not happen this year.

The smallest radar to fly in space has been delivered to ESA for integration aboard the miniature Juventas CubeSat, part of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence. The radar will perform the first radar imaging of an asteroid, peering deep beneath the surface of Dimorphos – the Great Pyramid-sized body whose orbit was shifted last year by the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft.

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 9, 2023
Two Russian Cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk Wednesday to upgrade systems on the International Space Station. Before they set out on the spacewalk, NASA officials said cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin "will venture outside the station's Poisk airlock to attach three debris shields to the Rassvet module." NASA said the pair "will test the sturdiness of a work platfor

Paris (AFP) Aug 9, 2023
NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence that Mars once had a climate which alternated between wet and dry seasons similar to Earth, a study said on Wednesday, suggesting the red planet may have once had the right conditions to support life. Though the surface of Mars is now an arid desert, billions of years ago rivers and vast lakes are thought to have stretched across its s

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 08, 2023
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully validated designs for all elements of the nation's Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Through a series of successful and on-schedule Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) of all NGI major subsystems, the company demonstrated it has achieved design maturity and reduced risk for critical technologies. NGI is the

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2023
Emerging infectious disease hotspots are expected to increase globally within the next 50 years.1 Lab-based testing technology has advanced, but agnostic sample preservation still relies on refrigerated transport that can be difficult to acquire and is often unreliable in remote, austere, and contested environments. Consequently, samples critical to force health protection can be significantly d

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2023
Impulse Space, Inc. - a leader in the development of in-space transportation services for the inner solar system - has secured $45 million in its Series A funding round. The round is led by RTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of RTX (NYSE: RTX). "With the support from RTX Ventures, Impulse Space continues on the path toward its mission to provide agile, economic logistics services in any

Littleton CO (SPX) Aug 08, 2023
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has opened a facility that streamlines small satellite (smallsat) processing to enable high-rate delivery. The multi-million dollar facility will house the company's Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites, among other smallsat programs and technology demonstrators. The 20,000-square-foot low bay clean room, located on the company's W