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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded six companies — BlackSky Technology, HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet, and Xplore — study contracts for commercial hyperspectral imagery. The NRO will use these study contracts to “explore …
Hyperspectral sensors can “see” what materials a surface is made of and identify individual elements in the surrounding atmosphere. For national security purposes, hyperspectral imagery could for example detect evidence of chemical weapon production an…
The Space Force’s goal is to create a resilient SATCOM architecture by using multiple types of satellites with better encryption and dispersed over various orbits to flummox adversary jamming attempts — with US national security planners fully ex…
Defence department puts out call for satellites that can talk to each other and to the ground, are ‘scalable, rapidly deployable and re-constitutable’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDefence is looking for a mesh…
Researchers have analyzed samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found uracil, one of the informational units that make up RNA, the molecules that contain the instructions for how to build and op…
schwit1 writes: Crippled by war and sanctions, Russia now faces evidence that its already-struggling space program is falling apart. In the past three months alone, Roscosmos has scrambled to resolve two alarming incidents. First, one of its formerly d…
The Space Force is “working with the Air Force and the Intelligence Community (IC) in a complementary way to design, develop, and deploy space-based GMTI systems,” the service’s FY24 budget documents explain.
Longtime Slashdot reader drwho writes: A new type of propulsion system which uses no propellant, but rather only electricity, will be tested in a satellite to be launched from June 10’s Falcon 9 launch. The IVO Quantum Drive utilizes an alternative the…
Astronomer says unusual sighting 99.9% certain to be due to burning space debris from International Space StationWeeks after a balloon, an “octagonal structure” and other flying objects put Americans on edge, the US is dealing with another mysterious …
ViaSat-3 Americas is the first of three satellites to provide high-quality, affordable connectivity to global users Boeing integrated Viasat’s ultra-high-capacity payload to its custom-designed 702MP+ platform, harnessing the most power ever on a communications satellite EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 20. Boeing delivered the most powerful satellite platform the company has built to date, the 702MP+, …
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