22 January 2018
Quantum-enabled satellite passes key tests
... to a minimum despite the distances involved. Last year, China successfully launched the world's first quantum-enabled satellite called Micius. Named after the ancient Chinese philosopher and scientist, and orbiting at an altitude of ~500 km, Micius...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... of debris; hundreds of which will remain floating around in orbit for decades to come. In 2008, the US shot down a satellite at a lower altitude of 240 kilometres, but due to the decreased distance it produced minimal debris that decayed out...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... capacity by 2030. It will be staffed by 220 personnel from the French Air Forces' Joint Space Command, the Satellite Observation Military Center (CMOS) and the Operational Center for Military Surveillance of Space Objects (COSMOS). Operations...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
...of the spacecrafts. Last week, ESA got news that a satellite from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation was starting to edge its way ...of thruster burns to position itself away from the Starlink satellite. About half an hour later Aeolus contacted home, thus...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
...space weapon”, according to a US Space Command Statement. In February, the Space Command observers spotted the Russian satellites following a US spy satellite, behaviour that Space Command Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond described at the time as "unusual and...
17 November 2021
Debris from destroyed Russian satellite now visible in telescope images
... any hint of a problem. "It is true that we have successfully tested a cutting-edge system of the future. It hit an old satellite with precision worthy of a goldsmith”, said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. But, he added, "the remaining debris...
