Satellites

When talking about the use of satellites during the current stage of the war (since February 24), one remembers the ICEYE satellite acquired by the Prytula team or the use of Starlink for communication at the front. However, there is a less visible, but nevertheless important, work of satellites, the ... Read more

The 18th Space Defense Squadron, a special unit of the US Space Force that tracks all man-made objects in Earth orbit, announced that the Russian military satellite Сosmos-2499 fell into a pile of fragments. And this is already the second time. The second destruction of the satellite took place on ... Read more

According to EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), the Ukrainian Earth observation satellite EOS SAT-1, which was launched on January 3, 2023 as part of Transporter-6‘s mission, transmitted telemetry and systems health data confirming its launch into orbit. As a reminder, EOS SAT-1 is the first satellite of the EOS SAT constellation, ... Read more

As part of the first space launch in 2023, the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket launched 114 small satellites into low Earth orbit at once, including two Ukrainian ones – PolyITAN-HP-30 created by students of the National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) and the Earth observation satellite ... Read more

Poland continues to arm itself, this time the country decided to strengthen its intelligence capabilities and concluded a contract with France for the construction of two intelligence satellites equipped with cameras with a resolution of 30 cm. This is reported by Reuters. The amount of the contract is €575 million, ... Read more

Since the launch of the BlueWalker-3 satellite in September, observers have anxiously watched the sky in anticipation of its full deployment. Now the prototype satellite has fully deployed its antenna array, greatly increasing the brightness and creating a threat to space exploration. AST SpaceMobile Company announced the full deployment of ... Read more

NASA has successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite that will help scientists forecast the weather and monitor extreme weather events that are becoming more common. The satellite, called the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), is part of a global observing system and the product of a partnership between NASA ... Read more

Ukraine delivered to the USA one of the satellites that the SpaceX company will soon launch into space. The cargo was moved in cooperation with the logistics company Bollore Logistics Space on board the An-124-100-150 aircraft. The cargo weighs 50 tons, including the 14.69 m long, 5.45 m wide, and ... Read more

In August, the Serhiy Prytula Foundation announced that 600 million hryvnias ($14,2 million) that were collected by Ukrainians for three “Bayraktars” will be spent on the purchase of ICEYE‘s satellite because the manufacturer eventually provided the drones for free. At that time, this decision was made after consultations with the ... Read more

Apple has chosen Globalstar as its partner for a feature that will allow users of iPhone 14/14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro/14 Pro Max to send emergency messages from remote locations using satellite, reports Reuters. Apple will allocate $450 million from its advanced manufacturing fund to satellite infrastructure to support ... Read more

ICEYE satellite technologies will allow taking pictures of the territory of Ukraine despite cloudiness, rain, snow, fog, smoke or night time. The company owns more than 18 satellites, which, flying over Ukraine, can collectively take about 36 pictures per day. The technical details of the agreement were revealed today by ... Read more

As you probably remember, the Serhiy Prytula Foundation recently quickly raised money for three Bayraktar drones, which the Turkish company eventually gave to Ukraine for free. Then the Foundation undertook to use the money properly. So, ”this day has come” and Prytula told what exactly the saved funds went to. ... Read more

To remember Dmitry Rogozin, the “talented” head of the Soviet Russian space industry, who is famous for screwing up tweeting a lot, let’s see who is really dominating space now. And the infographic from the site Visual Capitalist will help us in this. Since the beginning of the space age, ... Read more

The Chinese military want to be able to disable or even destroy Starlink Internet satellites. They stated this in an article in the journal Modern Defense Technology. The authors emphasize that satellites can be used for military purposes for the benefit of other states. This threatens China’s national security. Military researchers ... Read more

Usually satellites do not communicate with each other, they transmit data to Earth via radio signals, where they then receive data from other satellites. However, recently two military satellites were able to exchange data directly, transmitting more than 200 gigabits over a distance of about 100 kilometers. On Thursday this ... Read more

Cosmos-2555 optical reconnaissance satellite, launched with fanfare from the Plesetsk cosmodrome with the help of a new Angara 1.2 light launch vehicle, “decorated” with the ruscist symbol Z, on April 29, 2022, will burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere today. Russia, as usual, reported on the successful launch of the ... Read more

Thanks to an agreement reached more than a month ago, Ukraine has de facto owned a multispectral optical satellite and receives exclusive satellite data from GEOSAT 2. Due to the risks of the information agenda in the face of military aggression, the agreement has only just appeared in public. GEOSAT ... Read more

Biden administration bans the testing of anti-satellite missiles. Their goal is to make it an “international norm of responsible behavior in space”. The ban was announced on Monday evening by Vice President Kamala Harris. USA, China, India, and Russia conducted such tests, which form dangerous space debris. The United States ... Read more