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NZ star track: A watch on space from Beijing to Tehran, Paris to Somalia

Documents reveal New Zealand is helping track satellites, including from Iran and the Chinese military, in a network that also watched over the Paris Olympics.

U.S. Space agency plans global network of missile warning ground sites

The U.S. Space Development Agency released a formal request for proposals September 18 for ground stations that will receive data from its next generation of missile-tracking satel...

Tracker reveals details of Russia’s secretive satellite launch

The classified satellite Russia launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on August 24 has reached an orbit consistent with a GLONASS navigation satellite, astronomer and satellite tracker...

EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX Given Unique Access To Classified DoD Space Tracking Data, Sources Say

Commercial space monitoring firms are concerned SpaceX's ability to use the best DoD data could threaten the market, sources tell Breaking Defense. The post EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX Given...

SDA Launches Fourth Tranche 1 Orbital Plane With 21 Northrop-Built Satellites

SDA’s fourth Tranche 1 launch sent 21 Northrop-built satellites to orbit to relay missile tracking and targeting data to U.S. forces. The post SDA Launches Fourth Tranche 1 Orbital...

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I Toured the Company Mapping Space Debris. Then I Polled Worried and Hopeful Scientists

From portable radars in shipping containers to orbital cameras, I asked scientists how the space-junk tracking industry plans to avoid catastrophic crashes.

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 data transport satellites for the Space Development Agency

The Tranche 1 Transporter Layer A mission is the fourth flight supporting the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture constellation. Liftoff from pad...

DRDO's IRDE Advances Indigenous Ultra-Wide Field Telescope Array For Space Surveillance

DRDO's Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE) is developing an advanced ultra-wide field telescope array intended to track objects in Earth orbit, marking...

U.S. Space Force wants satellites that can hunt objects in orbit

The U.S. Space Force wants companies to pitch satellites that can chase down and inspect objects in orbit on short notice, according to a request for information Space Systems Comm...

Japan and US Expand Space Security Cooperation With New Indo-Pacific Surveillance Payload

Expert says payload important for modern operations and contingency preparation vis-a-vis Taiwan

«СОНИКС» обновил орбитальные данные и автоматическое планирование наблюдений

Источник: Компьютерра - Журнал о науке и технологиях Портал «СОНИКС» получил серию обновлений, которые затронули работу с орбитальными данными, подбор частот, расчет пролетов, пла...

Russian ‘Starlink’ constellation satellites falling from orbit

Two satellites from Russia’s second Rassvet launch batch are heading toward reentry after never performing orbit-raising maneuvers, according to tracking data reported by Anatoly Z...

The Outer Space Treaty and the Race for Space Control

In September, the United States publicly acknowledged for the first time that it operates weapons in orbit. The announcement confirmed how far the military competition in space had...

Russian satellite shadows radar sat used by Ukraine

A Russian military satellite has maneuvered to within about 5 km (3 miles) of a commercial radar imaging satellite owned by ICEYE and appears to be holding position there, in what...

DRDO Advances Celestial Object Tracking With High-Precision Dual-Payload Telescope Mount

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has initiated work on a new celestial object tracking system centred on a highly capable two-axis altitude-azimuth mount de...

SPACE RACE GETS REAL: U.S. Confirms Secret Weapons Already In Orbit

The United States has now publicly confirmed something it had long kept murky:

Space Wars: Nations Prepare For Conflict In Orbit

Space is no longer a distant frontier of science fiction but a contested domain where nations are preparing for conflict. The importance of high ground in warfare has always been r...

Computer scientist tracks satellites with automated observatory built from off-the-shelf technology

Allen Schnibben's interest in space started when he was a child. "I picked up some books about the solar system when I was in elementary school. In middle school, I got a telescope...

SES Space & Defense Launch Demo Payload Supporting NASA Communications Services Plan

SES Space & Defense (SES SD), a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, has successfully launched a demonstration payload aboard Planet Labs PBC's (Planet) Pelican-12â„¢ satellite, in...

FCC Space Modernization Series (Part 5): A New Licensing Framework for Variable Trajectory Space Stations

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites

Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

US military bought commercial satellite images of alleged narco airstrips, Chinese naval fleet

The Space Force can improve how it embraces commercial intel, a new GAO report says.

U.S. Space Force taps Leonardo DRS for sensor technology

Leonardo DRS has won an Other Transaction Agreement contract from the U.S. Space Force to further develop sensor technology intended to support space superiority and space control...