For half a century, satellites have chased the same prize: ever sharper pictures of Earth. Each advance brought more pixels and greater clarity, but only in terms of how things looked. Now, a different kind of technology is emerging, one that reveals the biochemical composition of man-made and natural objects: hyperspectral imaging. By capturing hundreds […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – GHGSat announced plans Nov. 7 to send two additional satellites into its greenhouse-gas-monitoring constellation. Ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Brazil, Montreal-based GHGSat is preparing to expand its methane-monitoring constellation from 12 to 14 satellites. “With a constellation of this […]

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The Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) is borrowing playbooks from the commercial tech world.

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The Federal Aviation Administration will temporarily limit the hours that commercial space launches can take place, citing strains on the air traffic control system during the government shutdown.

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Imagine trying to spot an object just 30 centimeters wide from hundreds of kilometers above Earth. Years ago, I remember when “satellite view” meant blurry green blobs on a screen. Now, we can see individual trees, cars and even shadows cast by buildings. We finally have the power to witness our planet as it truly […]

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An investment by a venture fund affiliated with the U.S. national security community in commercial space station developer Vast is not necessarily a sign of military interest in human spaceflight.

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A member of the Federal Communications Commission warned that declining American influence could make it harder to secure support for key satellite industry priorities at international conferences.

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Despite the domestic headwinds, BlackSky is seeing a sharp uptick in overseas business.

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A company developing stratospheric platforms for telecommunications and related applications has won a NASA award to use that platform for environmental monitoring.

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Geostationary satellite operator EchoStar is selling another batch of radio frequencies to help improve SpaceX’s direct-to-cell services in the United States, in return for $2.6 billion worth of the company’s stock.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Italian space logistics company D-Orbit announced the conclusion Nov. 6 of CTRL+Space, Europe’s first in-orbit Capture-the-Flag (CTF) cybersecurity competition and the first live CTF contest involving multiple satellites. Italian CFT team mhackeroni worked with D-Orbit to organize the CTRL+Space competition. The European Space Agency Security Cyber Centre of Excellence and the ESA […]

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In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Max Haot, CEO of Vast, the ambitious aerospace company based in Long Beach, California, that’s one of a very companies few working diligently towards the first commercial space station.

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The future of American leadership in space will hinge on one factor: the ability to generate high power on orbit and on the surface of celestial bodies such as the moon. From a physics standpoint, nuclear energy offers the highest energy density available for spacecraft, enabling more efficient and compact power generation compared to solar. […]

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How precise are satellite collision-avoidance platforms? Artificial intelligence is helping space trackers get a handle on increasingly congested orbits, but physics and math are only part of the challenge in a domain where debris, satellite maneuvers and solar weather can quickly rewrite the map. Companies tend to share their performance metrics only with customers, but […]

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Demand has never been greater for the monitoring of objects in orbit and the coordination of their safe movement. The number of active satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) has surged from less than a thousand in 2019, when SpaceX began launching its colossal Starlink broadband constellation, to more than 10,000 today. As other megaconstellations […]

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The renomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator has been welcomed by much of the space industry, even as Isaacman defends positions he took in a policy manifesto.

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Blue Origin says the second launch of its New Glenn rocket, carrying a pair of NASA Mars spacecraft, is scheduled for Nov. 9.

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A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company iQPS on Nov. 5.

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Earth observation companies shift business models to capture growing demand for sovereign geospatial intelligence capabilities

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Milan — The European Space Agency has refined its plan for the European Resilience from Space (ERS) program, outlining a €1 billion ($1.15 billion) framework that more directly ties Earth observation, telecommunications and navigation to Europe’s growing defense and security needs. The updated proposal will go before member states for approval at the Nov. 26–27 […]

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Astranis announced plans Nov. 5 to roll out a mobile ad-hoc network service called Vanguard, using its small geostationary satellites to extend the range of point-to-point communications for disaster relief or secure defense operations.

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From inflationary pressures and shifting interest rates to supply chain challenges and intensifying great-power competition, today’s macroeconomic and geopolitical forces are reshaping the future of space investment. For investors and businesses, navigating this environment means balancing capital market dynamics, technology cycles, and an increasingly complex landscape of export controls, trade restrictions, and government influence.

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A realistic and cost-effective path for the United States to advance the exploration and development of the moon, and to keep our nation in the forefront of that enterprise, is to dramatically increase robotic exploration efforts and to focus with urgency on a comprehensive campaign to collect and return geologic samples from a wide range […]

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In space policy today, Republican views dominate. The party holds majorities in the House and Senate, while the White House is stretching — or breaking — the limits of executive power. Democratic views on space are largely couched in terms of opposition to White House initiatives, such as proposed cuts in NASA’s budget or efforts […]

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