LeoLabs operates six radar sites, including this one in Western Australia, that monitor objects in low Earth orbit. (LeoLabs) When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ...
As of August 2024, there were reportedly more than 700 unidentified objects in the Space-Track catalogue maintained by the 18th Space Defense Squadron. These are not alien spacecraft or mysterious ...
Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks Sept. 17 at the 2025 Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference. Credit: AMOS livestream WASHINGTON — The top ...
A critical space-based capability was added to America’s ballistic missile defenses Sept. 25 when two U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstrator ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s not just satellites tracking tropical activity from above – astronauts onboard the International Space Station use their bird’s eye view to aid researchers on the ground.
LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Space, a proven defense-tech company delivering solutions for the nation’s most critical missions and advancing the future of security in space, announced ...
Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...
ATLAS serves as a primary tool for Mission Delta 2’s 18th Space Defense Squadron operators for space catalog administration and maintenance, observation association, maneuver and de-orbit detection ...
The U.S. Space Force announced Tuesday it awarded $615 million across three separate agreements to Rocket Lab, defense research firm Systems and Technology Research, and a third undisclosed company — ...
This story appears in the July 2026 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes Asia Bangalore-based Digantara Industries’ three cofounders, all alums of the 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2025, set out to ...
As the number of space travelers is increasing through commercial missions, it becomes more important to understand how space affects the human body. A team led by researchers at Baylor College of ...
When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ground-based radars to track space debris and satellites. Its customers were commercial companies and civil agencies concerned ...