SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a group charged with finding cutting-edge technologies to solve national security problems, is looking for space companies to provide persistent Earth observation, responsive launch capabilities and something like an Internet in space. “We look at a lot of our legacy satellites […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — At least eight of the nine cubesats sent by the Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket into a 600-kilometer orbit July 14 alongside a larger spacecraft, the Kanopus-V-IK Russian Earth-imaging satellite, are not responding to commands from their operators. Three GeoOptics Cicero GPS radio-occultation satellites sent into that orbit […]
LOS ANGELES — An executive with the company that provided launch services for more than 70 satellites launched on a Soyuz in July said there is no evidence that the failure of several of those satellites was caused by the rocket. In an Aug. 31 interview, Vsevolod Kryukovskiy, launch program […]
WASHINGTON — The latest North Korean missile tests come at time when the U.S. defensive shield is weakened, missile-defense analysts say, by this summer’s loss of a pair of warships specially outfitted for ballistic-missile defense (BMD). A Standard Missile (SM)-3 launches for a test from the USS Fitzgerald, a guided-missile […]
WASHINGTON — Regional satellite fleet operator KT Sat, continuing its quest to raise its stature outside of its home country of South Korea, forged a landmark partnership Aug. 30 with a ship network supplier to offer satellite connectivity to the Japanese maritime market. The Seoul-based satellite operator, which is part […]
WASHINGTON — Spire is wading deeper into the ship-tracking business, challenging established competitors operating fleets of much bigger satellites. The startup has come a long way since the crowdfunded launch of its first cubesat four years ago. Today, Spire’s constellation numbers 40 cubesats — with more on the way. As […]
Looks promising for lifeESO/N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org/PA Wire By New Scientist staff and Press Association A few of the planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1, which is 40 light years away, have shown another sign they might be right for life: water. A team of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have […]
LOS ANGELES — An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) failed to place a navigation satellite into its planned orbit Aug. 31 when the rocket’s payload fairing failed to deploy. The PSLV, flying a mission designated PSLV-C39, lifted off on schedule at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the Satish Dhawan Space […]