Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?
The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica’s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.
Optical links in contested space

In this episode of Space Minds, we head back to Space Symposium where SpaceNews’ Sandra Erwin moderated a panel on how optical communication links can provide warfighters and operators with […]
Pentagon seeks $2.3 billion for Maven AI battlefield system

The Pentagon’s 2027 budget proposal includes an estimated $58.5 billion tied to artificial intelligence.

