Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2022
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace will design and develop the two mission payloads for the U.S. Space Force's Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar (NGP) program. "NGP combines Northrop Grumman's proven experience in missile warning and defense with Ball Aerospace's expertise in optical sensors and mission data processing," said Sarah Willoughby, vice president, overhead per

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2022
Identifying a malfunction in the nation's power grid can be like trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. Hundreds of thousands of interrelated sensors spread across the U.S. capture data on electric current, voltage, and other critical information in real time, often taking multiple recordings per second. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have devised a computationally effi

Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 03, 2022
According to the white paper, China's Space Activities in 2016, the Mars sample return mission represents one of the main tasks to be implemented in China's deep space exploration field in the next 10 years. As the key technologies to be developed for Mars sample return, the design, analysis, and verification for Mars take-off and ascent can play a very important support role in the engineering

OneWeb ordered staff to leave Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday amid an impasse over the launch of its latest batch of satellites on a Soyuz rocket, an executive for the U.K.-based company said.

Commercial spy satellites provides extraordinary intelligence about Russian troop advances in Ukraine and attacks on Ukrainian cities. But as the conflict grinds on, intelligence analysts at times are still being challenged to figure out Russian intent.

Skycorp Inc., a California company focused on orbital logistics, is preparing to test a key component of future satellite servicing vehicles on the International Space Station.

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The head of Roscosmos has renewed threats to terminate Russian participation in the International Space Station even as NASA says operations on the station remain normal.

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South Korea’s Earth observation company SI Imaging Services (SIIS) turned down a request to share satellite imagery of Ukraine and neighboring countries to assist Ukrainian efforts to repel Russia’s invasion.

NASA ordered three more commercial crew missions to the International Space Station from SpaceX Feb. 28 at a price of more than three-quarters of a billion dollars.

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