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SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?
STARBASE, Texas—I first visited SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas a decade ago. Driving down the pocked and barren two-lane road to its sandy terminus, I found only rolling dunes, a large mound of dirt, and a few satellite dishes that talked to Dragon spacecraft as they flew overhead. A few years later, in mid-2019,…
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US Space Force Plans Sole-Source Award to General Dynamics for Ground Segment of Tracking Layer
While the U.S. Space Force explores future communications options and plans to halt fiscal 2026 funding for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 3, Transport Layer Low-Earth Orbit satellites, the service said it is to move ahead with developing Tranche 3 ground systems for the Tracking Layer to counter advanced missiles. Next February, Space Force…
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IBM and NASA Release Open Source AI Model to Predict Solar Weather
IBM and NASA have released a new open-source foundation model called Surya that is designed to predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based technology. Surya, announced this week, has been released on Surya on AI platform Hugging Face to democratize access. The model will provide tools to help experts plan for solar storms, which…
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Veteran Ventures Capital Closes $60M Fund for Dual-Use A&D Tech
Veteran Ventures Capital (VVC) has closed a $60 million fund for investment in dual-use national security technologies, with space as a key focus. The firm noted that oversubscribed Fund II is triple the size of its inaugural $20 million, Fund I. VVC, founded in 2019, is a veteran-owned investment firm with a leadership team with…
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Tampnet Wins 5-Year Deal to Provide Managed Connectivity for Island Drilling Rig
Offshore connectivity provider Tampnet secured a five-year contract to supply managed connectivity services for the Island Drilling offshore rig Island Innovator. The service includes Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite backhaul from both Starlink and OneWeb, integrated with the Tampnet North Sea LTE and T-FAST microwave/fiber backbone. Tampnet uses AI-driven orchestration to route traffic for a fully…
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China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
US defense officials have long worried that China’s Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX’s Starlink network. It turns out the Guowang constellation could offer a lot more than a homemade Chinese alternative to Starlink’s high-speed consumer-grade broadband service. China has…
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Seattle’s Allen Institute provides stem cells for historic experiments in space
The Allen Institute in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s Allen Institute will play a key role in a groundbreaking space mission this weekend. The Allen Institute for Cell Science is providing stem cells that will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late Saturday night. These stem cells are part of the…
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X-37B launches USSF-36 mission aboard Falcon 9
The U.S. Department of Defense’s reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has embarked on its eighth overall flight into orbit. Vehicle 1, the first X-37B to fly, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 11:50 PM EDT (03:50 UTC on Friday, Aug. 22).…
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Get SAT, KT SAT, KAI Networks and R4 Integration Upgrade Republic of Korea Navy P-3C Aircraft
Get SAT, an innovator in lightweight satellite communication terminals for ground, air, and maritime applications, together with KT SAT, Korea’s leading satellite service provider offering comprehensive communication solutions across Korea and globally, and KAI Networks, a system integration company specializing in military and aerospace communications, and R4 Integration, the leading provider of airborne roll-on/roll-off communication…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers New Moon Orbiting Uranus
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29. The detection was made during a Webb observation Feb. 2, 2025. “This object was spotted in a series of 10 40-minute long-exposure images captured…