Tag: low Earth orbit
Orbital data centers would become wartime targets, analysts warn
Shifting AI computing into orbit creates a security problem that ground facilities solve with granite and concrete, and spacecraft cannot.
A 1981 Soviet weather satellite shatters again in orbit
A long-dead Soviet weather satellite has fragmented for the second time, scattering debris through an orbital band where wreckage lingers…
The Pentagon’s data relay mesh adds a third satellite builder
Twenty-one Northrop Grumman satellites are due to lift off Oct. 5, thickening a low-Earth-orbit network the Space Force wants to…
Space Force confirms a Cold War spy satellite broke apart in orbit
Debris from USA 32, an NRO signals intelligence satellite launched on a Titan II, is now part of routine conjunction…
SpaceX asks the FCC for graveyard orbits for its spent compute satellites
SpaceX told the FCC that its 4,000-kilogram Starmind compute satellites should be allowed to retire into graveyard orbits instead of…
Europe studies a lower orbit layer for quantum-resistant government links
ESA signed 18 low-orbit study contracts worth €20M with nearly 80 European firms to shape how IRIS2 evolves for government…