Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...
From low orbit, artificial intelligence is learning to pick out ships, vehicles and even individual people in real time, turning satellites into tireless analysts that never blink. The same algorithms ...
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 ...
Satellite drift might not sound like a problem, but it’s a real-world issue that affects everything from your GPS to emergency communications, and engineers have some clever tricks to keep it all in ...
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency announced Dec. 19 it awarded about $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies to build 72 missile-tracking satellites for the next phase of a low Earth orbit ...