In the absence of the National Space Council, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has taken on a lead role in coordinating national space policy. The post OSTP taking on space policy coordination work in place of National Space Council appeared first on SpaceNews..
Analysts are relying on tools that fuse satellite imagery, ship data and open-source reporting into real-time insight The post Strait of Hormuz crisis drives demand for commercial geospatial intelligence appeared first on SpaceNews..
The contract supports communications terminals used in the U.S. nuclear command-and-control architecture The post Raytheon contract for protected satellite communications terminals raised by $2 billion appeared first on SpaceNews..
Blue Origin has unveiled a new mission concept called NEO Hunter, designed to protect Earth… The post Blue Origin Unveils NEO Hunter: A Hybrid Planetary Defense Concept appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com..
The conversation took place amid the flight readiness review for the Artemis 2 mission, which is currently set to launch no earlier than April 1, 2026, pending work being completed in the Vehicle Assembly Building. .
SAN FRANCISCO – Northern California startup iMetalX Inc. emerged from stealth to announce a collaboration with Psionic, a Hampton, Virginia, company focused on autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments. Pairing Psionic’s Space Navigation Dopper Lidar with iMetalX’s Asgard data and simulation platform offers customers the ability to create accurate 3D models of resident space objects (RSOs) […] The post iMetalX emerges from stealth with technology to model resident space objects appeared first on SpaceNews..
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields […].
The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Bok is a mighty telescope run by the University of Arizona’s […].
Japanese satellite servicing company Astroscale has selected Isar Aerospace to launch a deorbiting mission developed by its British subsidiary. The post Astroscale selects Isar Aerospace to launch ELSA-M mission appeared first on SpaceNews..
As SpaceX accelerates its ambitious goal of sending humans to the Moon and Mars, the… The post From Steel Rolls to Starship at the Starfactory appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com..