Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first t…
This week’s science news was filled with things missing and found, with the revelation of the first-ever deep-sea footage of the elusive goblin…
Odin Space raises $3 million in seed funding
SAN FRANCISCO – British startup Odin Space raised $3 million in a seed round to begin commercializing tiny sensors to map and analyze…
Delivering the next generation of cloud-native, multi-orbit ground systems
As on-orbit capabilities grow more advanced, ground systems are undergoing a transformation of their own. Ground network specialist ST…
Multiple space companies join NATO’s DIANA defense accelerator
TAMPA, Fla. — NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic…
Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing
ORLANDO, Fla. — Voyager Technologies secured a $21 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to develop artificial…
Colliding space debris produces radio bursts, raising prospect of ‘debris weather’ alerts
GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in…
China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft
HELSINKI — China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and launching new…
Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network
TAMPA, Fla. — Two defense technology companies from Norway and Germany have joined forces to bolster Europe’s sovereign intelligence and…
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving…
How multi-agent AI can strengthen space missions against the unknown
Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors, more software-driven behavior, more tightly coupled subsystems and…
Benchmark demonstrates high-throughput ASCENT thruster in hotfire testing at Edwards Air Force Base
SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit…