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NASA is missing from Oshkosh
(Austin DeSisto) “If you don’t know the mission of NASA, that’s a problem,” Duffy said yesterday. Without a NASA presence at the worlds largest fly-in convention, the general public will still have little understanding of NASA’s mission.
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Signals, Noise, and Narratives: Cyber Operations Against the Space Sector Amid the Israel-Iran War
On Friday June 13, the Israeli Defense Forces launched a series of preemptive kinetic and drone strikes against Iranian military assets and nuclear facilities. Shortly after Israeli kinetic strikes, cyber activities started to skyrocket. Dozens of pro-Iranian and pro-Israeli hacktivist groups, some of which are believed to be state-directed or state supported actors — took to…
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Spire Builds Out its Space Reconnaissance Portfolio for Defense
Spire Global is building out its space reconnaissance portfolio for defense, with new radio frequency (RF) geospatial intelligence capabilities for persistent monitoring, geolocation, and situational awareness. The company said its RF monitoring satellites are able to detect and geolocate signals like GNSS jamming, spoofing, and other forms of disruption. Spire said its expanded space reconnaissance…
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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather
Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age. The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year…
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Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper
Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a…
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SES, Luxembourg Order Second GovSat Satellite from Thales
SES and the Luxembourg government are investing in a second satellite for the GovSat public-private partnership to provide government connectivity services over Europe. GovSat is a joint venture between SES and Luxembourg, and operates the GovSat-1 satellite that launched in 2018 and supports Luxembourg Directorate of Defence, EU and NATO nations, the U.S. Department of…
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Earth Fire Alliance, Muon Space & Google Announces First FireSat Wildfire Images
Earth Fire Alliance, the global nonprofit coalition committed to delivering transformative data and insights from all wildfires on Earth, in collaboration with Muon Space and Google Research, released the first wildfire images captured by the FireSat Protoflight satellite. Collectively, these images demonstrate the powerful impact FireSat will have on communities and the firefighters who protect…
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Sidus Space Debuts LunarLizzie Platform for Lunar Missions
Sidus Space has a new advanced satellite platform engineered for lunar and cislunar missions, the ‘LunarLizzie.’ Announcing the spacecraft on July 24, Sidus Space said it is expected to support payloads up to 800 kg, integrate LiDAR, hyperspectral imaging, AI powered autonomous navigation, encryption, and multi-sensor data fusion to provide near real-time lunar terrain intelligence…
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BlackSky Secures Contract to Deliver Real-Time Satellite Monitoring in Latin America
BlackSky Technology won a contract to provide immediate On-Demand subscription-based Gen-3 and Gen-2 monitoring services for Latin American defense and intelligence customers in the fight against transnational organized crime. “BlackSky’s low-latency, high-cadence monitoring services give government security forces an unparalleled strategic and tactical first-to-act advantage,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “By increasing the speed, volume,…