WASHINGTON — An organization formed under the U.S. Space Command to harness commercial technology for space domain awareness is taking on broader responsibilities, including using commercial space systems for battlefield intelligence.
“We’re expanding,” Barbara Golf, U.S. Space Force strategic advisor and head of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations (JCO), told attendees Sept. 20 at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies...
PARIS — NASA has established a space sustainability division that will consolidate much of the work the agency is doing on orbital debris and related issues.
Speaking at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference Sept. 19, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said the agency received the required approvals from congressional appropriations committees the previous day for the reorganization required to...
Starved.Strange UniverseLike a parasite sucking the life from its host, an international group of scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a distant galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.Because it's not making new stars, the galaxy GS-10578, also known as Pablo’s Galaxy, is basically "dead," said the scientists, led by Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, in a...
A new covid-19 variant called XEC has started to spread worldwide, primarily in Europe. Early evidence indicates that it may transmit more easily than past variants, but public health experts say the new variant is very similar to past ones and the vaccines...
TAMPA, Fla. — Executives discussing emerging space-based computing capabilities Sept. 20 called for stronger collaboration between policymakers and technology leaders to accelerate artificial intelligence’s societal benefits.
Rika Nakazawa, chief of commercial innovation at Japanese telecoms giant NTT, proposed tech providers use private forums to educate policymakers and industry players about AI advancements.
This approach, she said during World Satellite Business Week in Paris, would avoid...