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The contract will focus on signals intelligence for U.S. Air Force platforms. The post Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing appeared first on SpaceNews.

NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. The post Multiple space companies join NATO’s DIANA defense accelerator appeared first on SpaceNews.

As on-orbit capabilities grow more advanced, ground systems are undergoing a transformation of their own.  Ground network specialist ST Engineering iDirect, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, is investing in new […] The post Delivering the next generation of cloud-native, multi-orbit ground systems appeared first on SpaceNews.

Two defense technology companies from Norway and Germany have joined forces to bolster Europe’s sovereign intelligence and communications capabilities, with plans to start deploying small satellites in about three years. The post Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network appeared first on SpaceNews.

China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and launching new remote sensing satellites. The post China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft appeared first on SpaceNews.

GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, as well as satellites in orbit.  This new intelligence agency-funded research is focused on gauging the interaction of orbital debris

SAN FRANCISCO – British startup Odin Space raised $3 million in a seed round to begin commercializing tiny sensors to map and analyze sub-centimeter orbital debris. With its first sensor launched in 2023 on D-Orbit’s ION orbital transfer vehicle, Odin demonstrated its ability to detect debris that’s generally too small to track but still capable

Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors, more software-driven behavior, more tightly coupled subsystems and more interactions between spacecraft and orbital infrastructure. As these systems evolve, the number of potential failure modes grows — ranging from thermal drift and aging hardware to configuration errors, environmental disturbances, and unfamiliar system behavior.

SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit application of the propulsion technology, the company announced Dec. 10. “Because ASCENT has 50% greater impulse density than other monopropellants, mission planners and spacecraft designers can get the similar delta-v [change in velocity] with less

NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. The post NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter appeared first on SpaceNews.