As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has successfully tested an AI-based attitude controller for satellites ...
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U.S. and Chinese satellites routinely spy on each other in orbit, rehearsing for more aggressive operations in the event of ...
"It's like bugs on a windshield." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in ...
TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared for a delicate orbital minuet. They were about to conduct a so-called rendezvous and proximity ...
A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever put into orbit. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a joint project ...
WASHINGTON — Despite a surge in satellite deployments, the fundamental operating model for spacecraft hasn’t evolved much since Sputnik launched in 1957: build it, launch it, use it, discard it. This ...
Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 ...