SpaceX’s successful Sunday Starship launch — lucky 13, and on first try Mechazilla caught the booster
Starship’s fifth flight test lifted off on October 13, 2024, with our most ambitious test objectives yet as we work to demonstrate techniques fundamental to Starship and Super Heavy’s fully and rapidly reusable design. All images captured by Satnews during ...
Blue Origin NS-27 launch — maybe Sunday the 13th will be lucky
Credit Blue Origin Another possible date for the evasive New Shephard-27 mission is now looking at Sunday, October 13 at 6:00 am to 1:30 pm PDT. Texas weather looks good and hopefully all the systems say GO! The forecast calls ...
SpaceX sends off ESA’s Hera planetary defense mission to study NASA’s astroid redirection
Photo captured on Monday, October 7, by Satnews from SpaceX's video stream Florida's weather held steady on Monday, October 7, enabling SpaceX to launch the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape ...
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Satnews celebrates Christopher Columbus Day
Library of Congress 1893 In celebration of Christopher Columbus' achievements Satnews Publishers offices will be closed on Monday, October 14 and reopen on Tuesday, October 15 ...
infiniDome launches their new GPSdome-SunStone anti-jamming solution
infiniDome has launched GPSdome-SunStone — this state-of-the-art anti-jamming module marks a significant milestone in the company’s journey of delivering next-generation navigation resiliency solutions to the defense and commercial sectors. The company’s solutions have been deployed across multiple industries, including defense, ...
NSA issues updated guidance on Russian SVR cyber ops
The National Security Agency (NSA) joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to warn network defenders about ongoing Russian Federation Foreign ...
First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument
On September 19th, the imaging spectrometer on the Carbon Mapper's Tanager-1 satellite detected this methane plume in Karachi, Pakistan, extending nearly 2-1/2 miles from a landfill. The spectrometer was designed at NASA JPL.Image: Carbon Mapper / Planet Labs. Using data ...
SpaceX’s Starship ready for fifth flight test on Sunday including sonic booms
Starship's fifth flight test is targeted to launch on Sunday, October 13. The 30-minute launch window opens at 7 a.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here ...
SES + Sky extend their partnership in the UK + Ireland
SES has extended the company's long-standing partnership with Sky through a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighborhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East — this renewal builds on the companies' previous agreements. Under the ...
Microsatellite project to monitor objects in space over Canada + the South Pole
University of Manitoba researchers in Magellan’s Advanced Satellite Facility (Photo: Business Wire) The University of Manitoba (UM) and Magellan Aerospace (Magellan), in collaboration with Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) science and technology organization, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), ...
ViaSat-3 F1 initiates services for government customers
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) is now delivering ViaSat-3 F1 (VS3 F1) service to the U.S. Marine Corps, marking the first use of the ViaSat-3 network by a government customer — this follows the VS3 F1 satellite recently beginning to deliver services ...
INTEGRASYS is participating at this year’s Silicon Valley Space Week
INTEGRASYS will be in attendance at this year's Silicon Valley Space Week and will be showing and discussing their family of products and company CEO Alvaro Sanchez will be participating in the MilSat Symposium panel discussion examining Considerations in Augmenting ...
U.S. Army Special Operations veteran + drone expert joins Red Cat’s Board of Advisors
Screenshot Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has announced that Brett Velicovich has joined the firm's Board of Advisors — he is a drone industry expert, national media personality as well as the best-selling author of Drone Warrior, a first-hand account that ...
