Less than a year after being evaluated in NOAA’s Fire Weather Testbed, the automated satellite fire detection capability of the experimental Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) has been embraced by the firefighting […]
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NASA’s PUNCH mission captures first images of Sun, space
NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission successfully completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the […]
SpaceX to launch NROL-145 on Saturday building largest government constellation — ever
On Saturday, April 19th at 3:41 AM – 7:41 AM PDT, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch the tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and […]
Scout Space’s “Sparrow” first in-space image to provide space security and Space Domain Awareness
Scout Space Inc., an in-space observation service provider focused on space security and comprehensive Space Domain Awareness (SDA), announces its optical payload dubbed “Sparrow,” launched aboard the Apex Aries bus on […]
EarthCARE goes west for launch as ESA’s most complex Earth Explorer mission
The Airbus-built EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) spacecraft has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its way aboard an aircraft to its launch site in Vandenberg, California. […]
Momentus’ contract with student team CalgaryToSpace for 2025 orbital delivery services
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, signed a contract with CalgaryToSpace (CTS) for transportation and orbital delivery […]
Loft Orbital: The rise of the virtual mission
For decades, satellites have been a valuable resource for understanding events on Earth in slow motion, from assessing damage from extreme weather, to forecasting crop outputs, to predicting economic activity […]
Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat
A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe’s next Vega launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth’s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA’s decade-in-flight […]
NASA’s CAPSTONE primary mission successfully completed by Advanced Space
Advanced Space has successfully completed the six-month primary mission for CAPSTONE, the first commercial satellite to operate at the Moon. The CAPSTONE mission’s objective is to pioneer a new and […]
L3Harris selected by NASA to develop NOAA GeoXO Imager
L3Harris Technologies Inc. has been selected by NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to develop the imager for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. […]