US Space Force is Deploying Hundreds of New Military Satellites by 2026
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) is issuing this Other Transaction Authority (OT) solicitation to establish the foundation for Tranche 2 (T2) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture...
View ArticleFirefly Bought Spaceflight Inc
In June 2023, Firefly Aerospace acquired Spaceflight Inc. to strengthen Firefly’s on-orbit solutions and service the entire lifecycle of customers’ satellites and spacecraft. The acquisition further...
View ArticleNASA Sending Four Starling Cubesats to Test Cooperation Without Realtime...
This July, NASA is sending a team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to test cooperation without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous...
View ArticleChina Will Launch 300 Ultra Low Orbit Communication and Spy Satellites
China has started to construct an ultra-low orbit satellite constellation of 300 satellites. These 300 will be for communications and remote-sensing satellites orbiting the globe, providing a global...
View ArticleSpaceX Falcon Heavy Launched Hughes GEO Satellite
SpaceX has had 52 launches in 2023 as of July 31. SpaceX will attempt up to 100 launches (may include Starship) in 2023. July 1, 2023 SpaceX launched the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a wide-angle...
View ArticleWhat Happened With Elon, Starlink and Ukraine Was an Unreasonable Request
Walter Isaacson explains how in the early stages of Russia’s war with Ukraine, Russia knocked out a lot of communications and internet access. Elon and SpaceX have provided 20,000 Starlink terminals...
View ArticleSpaceX Starlink Passes 2 Million Subscribers
SpaceX announced that Starlink passed the 2 million subscriber mark on Sept. 23, 2023. Starlink is available on all 7 continents, in over 60 countries and many more markets, connecting 2M+ active...
View ArticleSpaceX Starlink Has Upgraded Satellite to Satellites 100 Gbps Laser Links
SpaceX has more than 8,000 space lasers across the Starlink constellation. Starlink satellites are able to connect thousands of kilometers apart, beyond the view of ground stations, and maintain...
View ArticleSpaceX Starlink Providing Remote and Mobile Coverage in Australia
Western Australia Police will spend $8.5 million in Starlink equipment and internet services to provide reliable connectivity for 550 police vehicles and 129 regional police stations across the state....
View ArticleSpaceX Independent Investment Guide
Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture has worked with Spaced Ventures to create the SpaceX: The Independent Investment Guide. It is designed to be a fairly exhaustive look into SpaceX’s technology, products,...
View ArticleRussia Still Has Three Years of Tanks in Storage Based on Satellite Imagery
Youtuber Covert Cabal has updated his count of Russian Soviet era tanks in storage. He uses satellite images. Russia is now making about 200-250 new tanks each. They are losing about 1400 tanks each...
View ArticleAmazon Bends the Knee to Buy SpaceX Launches for Kuiper Satellites
Amazon bought three rocket launches from SpaceX for itsA Project Kuiper internet satellites, announced on Friday. This is not a drill: Amazon bought SpaceX launches. Amazon's satellite internet network...
View ArticleSpaceX Ground Testing Starlink Satellite Pez Dispenser
Felix Schlang at What About It? and Ringwatchers have photos, diagrams and reporting that SpaceX has built and is ground testing the Starlink satellite pez dispenser system. Brian WangBrian Wang is a...
View Article100-150 SpaceX Starlink Satellites Serve 1.3 Million US Customers
The surface area of the USA is about 1.9% of the Earth’s surface but there can be up to 3% of Starlinks are able to service the 1.3 Million US customers. There are about 100-150 Starlink satellites...
View ArticleHypersonic Missiles Vs Next Gen Satellites, Drones and Sensors
The US Space Force and military will spend $15-30 billion over the next 5 years to deploy next generation satellites, drones, ground sensors and other global systems to track and monitor and defeat...
View ArticleNASA Can Reduce Extragalactic Distance Measurements From 10% to Less than 1%
Dark Energy is inferred based upon distance and other measurements which could have 10% errors. Measurements of the distance to extragalactic sources allow us to infer the major energy constituents of...
View ArticleIn 2026 Relativity Space Will Match the SpaceX Falcon 9
Relativity Space built and launched the world’s first 3D printed rocket, Terran 1, and is building the Terran R, a reusable Falcon 9 class launch vehicle. As of April 2023, Relativity Space has raised...
View ArticleCubesats Last About 1.1 Years on Average
Cubesats built with commercially available components and materials and lacks on-board propulsion to maintain its orbital position last about one year. It is possible for them to last 2-5 years but...
View ArticleInfleqtion 1600 Qubit Array Today and Five Year Roadmap to Fault Tolerant...
Infleqtion announced the next phase of its quantum computing program: Sqorpius, the world’s largest qubit array, comprising 1600 qubits. This new initiative encompasses substantial investments in both...
View ArticleAI to Track Hypersonic Missiles
EpiSci will use AI software to leverage infrared satellite data from the Space Development Agency (SDA) future constellation of hundreds of satellites. The satellites will have overhead persistent...
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