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Spatial data has become a weapon of war in the US-Iran war

We are in the geospatial era of warfare in which information derived from satellites is as strategically critical as territorial…

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Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble…

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China’s latest batch of new and reusable rockets are close to launch

A number of new Chinese state-led and commercial rockets are set for debuts and fresh first stage recovery attempts in…

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20,000 Eyes on the Universe

We live in a golden age of astronomical imaging. Telescopes are capturing billions of galaxy images, painting the universe in…

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The Flash Memory That Space Can’t Destroy

Every byte of data a spacecraft collects, every image, every reading, every scientific measurement has to survive one of the…

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Space Force plans nationwide network of ‘resilient operations centers’

These facilities are intended to ensure military space missions can continue during wartime when installations could come under attack The…

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NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over Rogers Dry…

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Observable Space raises $90 million and wins Space Force contract for optical systems

Observable Space, a company that develops optical systems for laser communications and space domain awareness, has raised $90 million and…

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JWST Studies a Dark and Airless Super-Earth

There's a planet out there called LHS 3844 b, orbiting a star about 48 light-years away. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

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Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon by arguing that these…

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