Space Force to hold first ‘orbital warfare’ exercise this summer
Among the exercise scenarios, Red Skies will look at how Space Force operators will handle threatening close approaches by adversary satellites.
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Airbus selects UK National Satellite Test Facility for SKYNET 6A testing
Stevenage, May 11. Airbus has selected the National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) at Harwell in Oxfordshire to carry out the comprehensive test campaign on the UK Ministry of Defence’s next generation secure communications satellite SKYNET 6A. The £11…
Space Force Gearing Up for Future EW, Orbital Warfare, and Cyber Warfare Exercises
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) held the second Black Skies electronic warfare (EW) exercise recently and is preparing to hold another this fall, as the […]
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Australia’s first national space mission up in the air after federal budget cuts
Industry says the Albanese government is ‘defunding space programs without explanation’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s first national space mission – building satellites to detect and respond to bush…
Possible meteorite crashes into bedroom in New Jersey
Residents were not at home in Hopewell Township when rock appeared to hit house on MondayA possible meteorite crashed into a bedroom of a New Jersey home, puncturing a hole into the roof and leaving residents rattled, though they were not home at the t…
Department of Air Force to Review S&T Programs to Determine Which Should Continue
The Department of the Air Force is to review its science and technology (S&T) programs to determine which should continue, Air Force Frank Kendall said on May 9. Air Force […]
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Space Force wants commercial sat buses to carry ‘bundled’ experiments
The effort, called Space Test Experiments Platform 2.0 (STEP 2.0), aims to set up a consortium of providers who have flight-proven buses via an indefinite delivery/indefinite quality (ID/IQ) contract, Lt. Col. Jonathan Shea, STP director, said Monday.
Arianespace CEO: Europe Won’t Have Reusable Rockets For Another Decade
Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel says Europe will have to wait until the 2030s for a reusable rocket. Space.com reports: Arianespace is currently preparing its Ariane 6 rocket for a test flight following years of delays. Europe’s workhorse Ariane 5, whi…
Could We Build a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Using Jupiter for Raw Materials?
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism:
We’d need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere, a giant theoretical shell that would harvest all of a given star’s energy, around the Sun. In fact, as scienc…
In a First, Astronomers Spot a Star Swallowing a Planet
For the first time, astronomers have observed a star swallowing a planet. The findings have been published in the journal Nature. MIT News reports: The planetary demise appears to have taken place in our own galaxy, some 12,000 light-years away, near t…