Medicine & TechnologyThe US Department of Defense is asking for ideas for a solid propellant that would greatly reduce exhaust infrared signatures. In other words, stealth rocket fuel.
Aerospace company Rocket Lab has announced that its next mission will be carrying payloads from Planet and Canon Electronics through the ridesharing capacities of its Electron rocket, September 22.
Kleos Space has released an update on their Kleos Scouting Mission in which they are set to launch four Kleos satellites in the first half of November 2020.
China continues to expand its Earth observation satellites with the latest Gaofen 11 satellite, carried to orbit by a Chinese Long March 4B rocket Monday, September 7.
PICASSO, the first CubeSat nanosatellite mission for the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), will carry technology developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd. to conduct scientific studies in Earth orbit.
Accusations about space security and international policies are being passed by the U.K. and the U.S. against Russia and, now, vice verse. All nations are concerned about satellites in space being used as a weapon at the time that space exploration is currently having its greatest advancements.
China's BeiDou system is complete with the launching of the last BDS-3 satellite this morning; a system that has been quite useful with multiple services during the pandemic.
Power companies all over the world are downplaying their reports concerning the air pollution contribution their production has been making, the satellite monitoring might help put an end to this secrecy.