A new satellite is orbiting the Earth that is capable of snapping high resolution images of nearly any place on our planet – and is powerful enough to see through walls of buildings. Capella-2, designed by Capella Space, is strapped with cameras, sensors and uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that operates regardless of air visibility, … Read more
British firm OneWeb is launching the first batch of broadband satellites into orbit since surviving bankruptcy in a bid to take on SpaceX‘s Starlink network. Now jointly owned by Indian conglomerate Bharti Global and the UK government, OneWeb will launch 36 satellites at 12:26 GMT from Russia on a Soyuz rocket. The firm has a … Read more
Airbus says extra defence spending announced by Government is vital to protect Britain’s satellites from attack By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:49 GMT, 28 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 November 2020 Airbus has said the extra defence spending announced by the Government this month is vital to protect Britain’s satellites … Read more
Russia has successfully tested a new missile capable of destroying Western satellites, followed by another weapon ‘to be used on US cities in the event of a nuclear war’. The US warned that the first missile tested will be capable of destroying Western satellites in low earth orbit. Meanwhile, Russia today claimed a successful test launch … Read more
Nato experts are building a ‘space hub’ to track Chinese and Russian weapons amid fears the countries may try to ‘shoot down satellites’ Jens Stoltenberg warned two countries were developing anti-satellite systems General Sir Patrick Sanders said the UK was not ‘fit for information age warfare’ Space centre, at the Ramstein air base, Germany, will … Read more
The moon stole the show from the sun during its lunar transit. Astronomers observing the ball of gas caught the moon photobombing their footage on October 16 when it passed between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the sun. The transit lasted for about 50 minutes and at its peak, the moon covered 44 percent the … Read more
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit – taking the total to almost 800 – as CEO Elon Musk reveals a test of the internet-beaming constellation is imminent Elon Musk’s firm had another successful launch of 60 satellites on October 18 SpaceX aims to have more than 1,000 satellites in orbit by the end … Read more
Four shoebox-sized satellites have successfully been launched into space, to help monitor shipping movements from low-Earth orbit. The satellites were all built in Scotland by global data and analytics company Spire, with the help of £6 million in government funding. They were successfully transported into space on a Soyuz launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at … Read more
Two shoebox-sized supercomputer satellites, built in Scotland to monitor shipping movements from low-Earth orbit, are due for launch this afternoon. Each nanosatellite has an onboard supercomputer with machine learning algorithms that can provide ‘hyper-accurate predictions’ of the locations of boats. The the so-called ‘Spire’ satellites will calculate their arrival times at ports to help businesses … Read more
5G mobile networks could interfere with signals from weather satellites in the neighbouring frequency band leading to forecasting errors, study warns US researchers modelled the impact that ‘5G leakage’ would have on forecasting They used a tornado outbreak from February 2008 as a case study for modelling Interference would have thrown off precipitation forecasts by … Read more