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...
Dec 3, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Satellites, Space
China has launched the world’s first “self-driving” satellites that can maintain or change their flight course without any help from the ground, according to their developer. The two mapping satellites – Siwei Gaojing-2 03 and Gaojing-2 04 – blasted off on a Long...
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