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WASHINGTON — Citing Starlink jamming “near conflict areas,” Elon Musk said March 5 that SpaceX will be “reprioritzed to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming” at the expense of “slight delays” in Starship and Starlink V2. In a series of overnight tweets, Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, said the company was shifting its

SAN FRANCISCO – GPS radio frequency interference can signal impending military activity. HawkEye 360 proved that point in a March 4 news release on GPS interference in and around Ukraine over the last four months. Prior to the Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, the Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company noted continual and increasing GPS

Two is company: artist’s impression shows what HR 6819 might look like. It is composed of an oblate “vampire” star with a disc around it, and a star in the background that has been stripped of its atmosphere. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) Black holes can be difficult to spot for the obvious reason that they don’t

Guetlein wants “system of systems integration.” The previous organization focused on “system by system and not an integrated capability” ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Systems Command — the Space Force organization that oversees procurement of new technology — is being restructured in an effort to re-energize the bureaucracy and bring fresh focus on the

Kendall: ‘When you look at it objectively, China is a much greater strategic threat than Russia is’ ORLANDO, Fla. — Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall dropped a hint about the forthcoming U.S. national security strategy:  “Russia and other threats will not be discounted, but China, with both regional and global ambitions, the resources to pursue

Space junk – debris left by humans in space – is a growing danger for satellites and space missions orbiting the Earth. It turns out that the Moon also has space junk and in this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Roberto Furfaro and Vishnu Reddy of the University of Arizona talk about the

TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb is considering American, European, Indian and Japanese rockets for launching its remaining 220 satellites after the company announced March 3 that it would stop using Russia’s Soyuz rocket. OneWeb, which is partly owned by the British government, has launched 428 of a planned 648 broadband satellites aboard Soyuz rockets under a

Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel is seen in this optical satellite image captured by South Korea’s SI Imaging Services (SIIS). Ukraine vice prime minister recently asked SIIS and seven other remote sensing companies to provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of Ukraine and neighboring countries to assist Ukrainian military fighting against Russian forces. SIIS president

New study provides insight into how solar wind is generated and accelerated. (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkin APL/Steve Gribben) A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain

TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb on March 2 ordered staff to leave Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid an impasse over the planned March 4 launch of its latest batch of satellites on a Soyuz rocket, an executive for the U.K.-based company said. Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s chief of government, regulatory affairs and engagement, told SpaceNews it

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, concerned about growing costs and slipping schedules, pressed NASA for more details about the management and overall strategy of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plan. At a March 1 hearing by the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee, members of both parties said they were impatiently waiting for long-promised plans from

Find out about plans for a zoomable “Google Earth” of the human body, the life of pioneering astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and how you can make supercomputing greener Read it now: as a service to the community you can read the March 2022 issue for free As a service to the physics community, we’re offering you

TAMPA, Fla. — Lockheed Martin is looking to set up a satellite manufacturing base in the United Kingdom to expand its global space business, the U.S.-based aerospace and defense giant said March 1. The facility could potentially focus on building entire satellites, their parts or ground networks for government and commercial customers, according to Nik

WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab carried out its first Electron launch of the year Feb. 28, placing a Japanese radar imaging satellite into orbit at the same time the company released its financial results and selected Virginia for a rocket factory. The Electron rocket lifted off at 3:37 p.m. Eastern from Pad B at the company’s

It’s a wrap: graphene-wrapped emulsion droplets deposited onto electrodes for single-droplet thin-film electronic devices. (Courtesy: University of Sussex) The assembly of 2D nanosheets on the surface of emulsion nanodroplets leads to the stabilization of the emulsion and requires only a tiny amount of material – report physicists in the UK. Furthermore, the team has developed

TAMPA, Fla. — Mounting international sanctions amid Russia’s war on Ukraine have thrown plans to launch 36 OneWeb satellites this week into uncertainty. The latest batch of satellites for OneWeb’s broadband constellation is currently at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Russian-controlled launch site in Kazakhstan, where Europe’s Arianespace plans to launch them as soon as March

Scott Herman, CEO of Cognitive Space: ‘You don’t get a better opportunity than this to show how remote sensing can support media storytelling’ WASHINGTON – Images collected by commercial satellites have chronicled the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine’s borders and the ongoing invasion, providing intelligence that previously was only available from government sources. The