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Global communications company Viasat announced Feb. 29 it has signed an agreement with defense prime contractor Northrop Grumman to support an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) experiment using broadband satellite internet to connect military vehicles and aircraft. The experiment is part of AFRL’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program, which aims to demonstrate …

Viasat Links Up With Northrop Grumman For Air Force Communications Experiment. Read More »

The International Space Station has sprung a leak. The space station has a leak at the aft end of the Russian module where the nation’s Progress spacecraft dock to the orbital lab, said NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) Program Manager Joel Mantalbano during a press briefing on Wednesday (Feb. 28) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center …

Air Is Leaking From A Russian ISS Module, But ‘No Impact To Crew,’ NASA Says. Read More »

A Russian rocket on Thursday successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlined increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Russia’s state-run Roscosmos corporation said that a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny launch facility in the country’s far east to carry the Iranian satellite and 18 Russian satellites into orbit. …

Russian Rocket Successfully Puts Iranian Satellite Into Orbit. Read More »

Astronomers have discovered that a planet-birthing disk of gas and dust that surrounds an infant star is drenched with enough water to fill Earth’s oceans three times over. Water, a key element needed to form and sustain life as we know it, has always been considered to play an important role in forming planets. This …

A Baby Star’s Planet-Forming Disk Has 3 Times More Water Than All Of Earth’s Oceans. Read More »

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander overcame a number of hurdles during its epic touchdown last week, including one or more broken legs. The 14-foot-tall (4.3 meters) Odysseus settled onto the gray dirt near the moon‘s south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22), pulling off the first American lunar landing since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. …

Private Odysseus Moon Lander Broke A Leg During Historic Touchdown. Read More »

Ground-based radar systems could have a unique role to play in planetary defense, helping humanity protect Earth by spotting asteroids and comets on potentially devasting collision courses with our planet. This was the conclusion reached by National Academies in their 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. Currently, only one radar system on Earth concentrates …

Radar Could Help Scientists Find Potentially Threatening Asteroids. Read More »

The European Space Agency has released images showing some of the final orbits experienced by a European satellite before its fiery reintroduction to Earth’s atmosphere. The school-bus-sized European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite reentered our planet’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 21, almost 29 years after its launch in April 1995. The Tracking and …

Radar Images Reveal Damage On Europe’s Doomed ERS-2 Satellite During Final Orbits. Read More »

France-based Unseenlabs has raised 85 million euros ($92 million) behind plans to double its maritime surveillance constellation to 25 nanosatellites for tracking vessels in near real-time. The company has now raised 120 million euros since being founded nine years ago, CEO and cofounder Clément Galic said Feb. 27. As well as expanding a fleet of …

Investors Inject $92 Million Into French Maritime Surveillance Constellation. Read More »

Rwanda Space Agency and the Polish Space Agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance partnership opportunities – marking a significant milestone in bilateral collaboration between Rwanda and Poland in space technology. The MoU aims to leverage the robust Polish space ecosystem to develop collaboration on activities of mutual interest and solidifies the commitment …

Rwanda Space Agency Sign MoU with Polish Space Agency for Development Initiatives. Read More »

NASA sees an even brighter future for its human moon-landing program after a private robotic mission safely touched down last week. Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson says NASA‘s Artemis program, which aims to put boots on the moon as soon as 2026, is getting “momentum” from the private Intuitive Machines landing. That mission, known as IM-1, …

Intuitive Machines’ Historic Moon Landing Builds Momentum For Artemis, Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson Says. Read More »