Aug 21, 2025 | Astronomy, Featured, Satellites, Space
An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes around the world from disruptive interference from satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Big constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink bring...
May 29, 2025 | 5G, Satellites, Telecommunications
Satellite phones and devices are currently the main modes of communication with the rest of the world, when it comes to remote regions like Antarctica. But through a unique collaborative research and development effort between industry and academia, that may change,...
May 15, 2025 | Satellites, Space
As the Federal Communications Commission considers GPS alternatives, SpaceX says its Starlink satellites are already up for the task. The company made its pitch in a Wednesday letter to the FCC after the commission kicked off a public inquiry about...
Apr 10, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Satellites, Space
True Anomaly will take its space-security work far afield next year. The Colorado-based startup, which aims to make space a safer and more sustainable realm for the U.S. government and its partners and allies, revealed today (April 3) that it plans to send...
Mar 13, 2025 | Climate, Satellites, Space
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that as global warming caused by...
Jan 29, 2025 | Satellites, Space
San Francisco-based Planet announced today (Jan. 29) that it has signed a $230 million contract with an unnamed commercial partner in the Asia-Pacific region to build and deliver a fleet of its new, sharp-eyed Pelican satellites. “This agreement...
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