Trump’s call for a “Space Force” escalates a quiet, dangerous contest between the US, China, and Russia—one whose consequences no one really understands. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b31342d2b3a2d7b093346bc/master/pass/spacewars_opener-new.jpg
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Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020
Enlarge / The Falcon Heavy rocket took off at 3:45pm ET Tuesday, Feb. 6, with all 27 engines firing. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann for Ars Technica) When SpaceX debuted the Falcon Heavy rocket in February, one of the biggest questions concerned who, exactly, would use the large booster and its 27 engines. Now we have an answer: the […]
China-based hackers burrow inside satellite, defense, and telecoms firms
Enlarge (credit: US National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.) An advanced hacking campaign originating in China has spent the past year infiltrating satellite operators, defense contractors, and telecoms companies in the US and Southeast Asia, researchers from Symantec said. The attackers specifically looked for and infected computers one target used to monitor […]
Satellite photos show what Syrian sites looked like before and after the US strikes
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar The United States, Britain, and France, conducted “precision strikes” on Syria on Friday, in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack that reportedly killed dozens in the rebel-held town of Douma. The Pentagon said the strikes hit three targets believed to have been involved in creating chemical weapons. The sites included the […]
Russia & China to merge satellite tracking systems into one global navigation giant
Moscow and Beijing will team up to create an integrated navigation system based on Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the Chinese BeiDou. The system will cover most of Eurasia. The countries will reportedly negotiate the merger in May at the International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering in the Chinese […]
New satellite images show massive Chinese naval carrier drill in the South China Sea as Taiwan tensions heat up
Planet Labs/Handout via REUTERS New satellite images reveal the massive scale of a Chinese naval drill earlier this month in the South China Sea. The images, provided by Planet Labs Inc, confirm a Chinese carrier group has entered the vital trade waterway as part of what the Chinese navy earlier described as combat drills. Sailing […]
Afghanistan’s Largest Satellite Internet Service Provider Orders 2,000 Isotropic Systems’ Self-Installing Consumer Broadband Terminals to Extend Its National Network
PRESS RELEASE: Isotropic Systems generates a firm order backlog early in its development cycle as a result of unique innovation and terminal economics WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 16, 2018– Isotropic Systems, the next-generation satellite terminal provider, has entered into an agreement with Neda (www.neda.af ) to develop self…Read More
SpaceX just rocketed a bus-sized satellite into space with a record-breaking launch
SpaceX/Flickr Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 12:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday. The launch is the company’s 50th of Falcon 9 since the rocket first flew in June 2010. The mission is flying a bus-sized satellite to an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. While most of America is asleep, Elon […]
NOAA’s New GOES-S Satellite Is a Game Changer for Severe Weather Forecasts
Assuming the 11,500-pound spacecraft makes it into geostationary orbit safely, it’ll go by GOES-17. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8f7331086151385ac850fc/master/pass/goes-s-payload.jpg
There’s something strange going on amid the satellite Internet rush
Enlarge / A happy Greg Wyler after a launch in 2013. (credit: JODY AMIET/AFP/Getty Images) As Thursday’s SpaceX launch of two test satellites vividly demonstrated, several companies are moving ahead with ambitious plans to design, build, and fly hardware capable of delivering broadband Internet from space. However, as intense as the battle for broadband may be in […]
