This marks the second time in a year that Baltic Sea infrastructure — which includes communications cables and energy pipelines such as Nord Stream — has been damaged, raising concerns over security and sabotage. Another telecom cable in the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island was damaged Sunday morning, telecom company Telia Lietuva, … Read more
Musk’s involvement in the conversation, which took place as Russia maintains its all-out assault on Ukraine, was first reported by Axios on Friday. While a recent Wall Street Journal report stated that Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has publicly opposed aid to Ukraine while spreading pro-Kremlin narratives about … Read more
Japan has finally launched the world’s first wooden satellite into orbit. The satellite was developed by Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry and will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a SpaceX mission. From there, the satellite will reach an orbit of 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth before going into … Read more
The Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launched two domestically manufactured satellites named Kowsar and Hodhod early morning on Tuesday, November 5, marking a milestone for the country’s private sector in the space industry. According to the Iranian news agency Press TV reports, The satellites were launched from the Vostochny spaceport in eastern Russia in the far … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX asked Taiwanese suppliers to transfer manufacturing off the island, leading to some relocating portions of their supply chain, according to sources employed by and close to the equipment makers and corporate documents. A source at a company that is one of the numerous subcontractors that provide components for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet … Read more
China’s top anti-espionage agency has warned that foreign agents have been attempting to steal information from the country’s space scientists, adding that it has stepped up its counter-intelligence efforts. In an article posted on its official account on WeChat on Wednesday, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said some countries attempted to use “infiltration and … Read more
A communications satellite built by Boeing exploded into pieces while orbiting in space — resulting in a “total loss” of the device used to serve customers across Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacific region. The company that purchased the satellite from Boeing said its IS-33e satellite was completely out of commission on Monday after … Read more
The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during a recent Starlink mission remains open, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday. SpaceX made the return to flight request for the workhorse vehicle on Thursday and the FAA gave approval on Friday. The agency … Read more
The former NATO general cited West Germany, which joined NATO in 1955 before unifying with Soviet satellite East Germany in 1990, as an example of an occupied territory joining the military alliance. “Although part of Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union … the rest was accepted into NATO,” Pavel said. “So I think that … Read more
BEIJING: A Chinese state-owned enterprise is close to launching the first batch of satellites for a mega constellation designed to rival US company Space X’s Starlink‘s near-global internet network, a state-backed newspaper reported on Monday. A successful launch would mark an important step in Beijing’s strategic goal of creating its own version of Starlink, a … Read more
