Emerging Threats & Tech
Musk warns an armed Starlink invites Russian anti-satellite strikes
The SpaceX chief says keeping Starlink civilian is a debris-risk calculation, and he is making it as Russia's ability to…
Germany opens a market hunt for lasers that can blind satellites
Berlin's space agency is asking industry what ground-based lasers could dazzle or damage satellites from low orbit to geostationary altitude.
A robot boat finds its way home with the satellites switched off
Voyant demonstrated radar-and-terrain navigation aboard an autonomous vessel for the UK Ministry of Defence, with no satellite positioning input at all.
The Space Force wants cislunar kit that already works
Two new solicitations will seek commercial spacecraft and autonomous software for the region between Earth and the Moon, with fielding…
British analysts say missiles cannot cover Russia’s orbital target list
A RUSI assessment argues Russia's interceptor stockpile cannot disable Western constellations, making an orbital nuclear weapon the fallback.
The Pentagon wants sensors that can hold a hypersonic target
The Space Development Agency is asking industry for tracking payloads that keep custody of maneuvering targets across a full flight…
Ground stations reveal how deeply Russia jams the Baltics
A 10 TB analysis of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian reference stations shows jamming hardening from episodic disruption into sustained denial.
A quantum-resistant chip begins its orbital stress test
WISeSat's new 6U spacecraft is testing SEALSQ secure elements in orbit to prove post-quantum hardware can survive spaceflight.
Moscow loiters a new watcher close to a Ukrainian eye in orbit
Cosmos 2612 held formation within a few hundred meters of ICEYE-X36 for two weeks of deliberate maneuvering, trackers say.