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Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing for Cybersecurity
Anthropic has announced an ambitious new project as it looks to play a key role in securing the world’s most critical software. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks to work on Project Glasswing, a new initiative. Anthropic announced…
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Top Space Cyber Execs Talk Increased Iranian Cyber Attacks
Space companies face an ever-growing attack surface, including a recent upsurge of attacks from Iran. Top CISOs of space companies from Vantor, SES, Viasat, and Telesat shared a view into the threats the companies face in March in a discussion during CyberSat Exchange at SATShow Week. Vantor CISO Norm Laudermilch said the company was seeing…
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NSA Reveals Details of New LEO Security Report
The National Security Agency (NSA) along with a number of other parties, has released a new Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), a report that highlights high-level cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies for users of LEO satellite communication systems. The report is titled “Securing Space: Cyber Security for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communications.” The NSA has worked…
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Artemis II Crew Completes Historic Lunar Flyby Mission
The Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday, wrapping up a historic nearly 10-day mission that marked the first crewed flight beyond Low-Earth Orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT with a NASA and U.S. military team recovering the…
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Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon
Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years. Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as…
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Falcon 9 launches CRS NG-24 cargo ship to ISS
Weeks after Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus S.S. William McCool ended its CRS NG-23 mission with a destructive reentry, another Cygnus is now flying. A Falcon 9 successfully launched the Cygnus XL S.S. Steven R. Nagel to the International Space Station, the fourth time SpaceX has launched a Cygnus spacecraft. The launch took place on Saturday, April…
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Northrop Grumman Delivers 11,000 Pounds to ISS on CRS-24
Why Did Northrop Grumman’s Latest ISS Mission Matter for Commercial Space? Northrop Grumman successfully launched 11,000 pounds of critical science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station aboard its Cygnus XL spacecraft on Saturday morning, maintaining the commercial resupply pipeline that keeps the orbital laboratory operational. The CRS-24 mission lifted off at 7:41…
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The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?
The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked…
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Artemis 2 Crew Returns to Earth After Historic Lunar Flyby
What does Artemis 2’s successful return mean for NASA’s lunar program? The Artemis 2 crew capsule successfully completed its atmospheric reentry and Pacific Ocean splashdown off the California coast on April 10, marking the first crewed lunar mission in over five decades. The four-person crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Christina Hammock Koch,…
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Chinese Falcon 9 Clone Fails as Artemis II Approaches Reentry
What happened to China’s Falcon 9 competitor and Artemis II’s status? China’s attempt to replicate SpaceX’s reusable rocket success hit a major setback this week, with an unspecified failure affecting their Falcon 9-inspired vehicle development program. Meanwhile, NASA’s Artemis Program mission continues smoothly as the four-person crew aboard Orion prepares for the most critical phase…