The European Union also is funding a series of grant making projects designed to bring innovative technologies into the EU SST program, and support startups to strengthen the industrial base.

SpaceX’s contract for the Space Force’s space-based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program now stands at $9.3 billion, up ...

LeoLabs operates six radar sites, including this one in Western Australia, that monitor objects in low Earth orbit. (LeoLabs) When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ...

As of August 2024, there were reportedly more than 700 unidentified objects in the Space-Track catalogue maintained by the 18th Space Defense Squadron. These are not alien spacecraft or mysterious ...

The Space Development Agency announced in July the successful third launch of Tranche 1 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, which brought the total number of on-orbit Tranche 1 ...

A critical space-based capability was added to America’s ballistic missile defenses Sept. 25 when two U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstrator ...

WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace, a company that specializes in tracking satellites and analyzing orbital data, is seeking to expand internationally with a new service that allows countries to build ...

LeoLabs’ current space radars scan electronically in one dimension to detect and track objects in low Earth orbit. Credit: LeoLabs Commercial space situational awareness provider LeoLabs has secured a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s not just satellites tracking tropical activity from above – astronauts onboard the International Space Station use their bird’s eye view to aid researchers on the ground.

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ground-based radars to track space debris and satellites. Its customers were commercial companies and civil agencies concerned ...