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Starfish Space to tackle orbital junk for NASA with SSPICY Otter
Is this a debris inspection mission or an Ubuntu release? NASA and Starfish Space have inked a contract worth $15 million to inspect defunct satellites in Earth's orbit ahead of future missions to deal with space junk....
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code....
Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026....
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