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Hefei, China (XNA) Apr 27, 2023
China will develop a satellite constellation named Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge, to provide communications, navigation and remote-sensing services for deep space exploration, according to a senior Chinese space expert.
Speaking at the First International Deep Space Exploration Conference held in Hefei, the capital of east China’s Anhui Province, Wu Yanhua, chief designer of the major project
Enhanced disaster response, environmental monitoring, agricultural productivity and infrastructure planning has been made available to…
BlackSky Technology Inc. released the first and only known public satellite image, according to a third-party intelligence analyst, of an…
Today we show you images over the Korla East area. According to Pentagon, it is here, in Xinjiang province, that China has developed its anti-satellite weapons.
The post See China’s ‘Korla East Zone’ to counter Western satellites first appeared on BulgarianMilitary.com.
Washington DC (UPI) May 1, 2023
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket with a payload of satellites from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after having to abort the mission days earlier.
The two-stage rocket – loaded with competitor ViaSat-3 Americas broadband Internet satellite, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space – was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with
The increasing capability of small Micro, Nano and CubeSats satellites, besides its short development time, and launching cost, over traditional large satellites, leads to the trend of using MSM in Earth observation missions with different topology. These MSM topologies or categories can be classified as Satellite Constellation and satellite Formation Flying. A satellite constellation …
London, UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2023
CGI (NYSE: GIB) has been awarded a further contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) under ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program, with the support of the UK Space Agency, to expand the development of its Dynamic Predictive Routing (DPR) tool.
The tool uses machine learning to enhance the routing of traffic in dynamic networks in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), especially those incorporating la
Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 28, 2023
China plans to send one to three network backup satellites for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space this year to improve the stability and usability of the constellation, according to the 13th China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday.
As a national major sci-tech project, the BDS is a global navigation satellite system, constructed and operated independently by
Under a new grant, the company will demonstrate to the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center its ability to take very high resolution images at night using a thermal infrared sensor.
Nottingham UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2023
The recent leak of Pentagon documents included the suggestion that China is developing sophisticated cyber attacks for the purpose of disrupting military communication satellites. While this is unconfirmed, it is certainly possible, as many sovereign nations and private companies have considered how to protect from signal interference.
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