ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN AEROSPACE
see the First Part video here – by Gustavo Scotti di Uccio (AOS) – Is the space attractive for doing business? Is the space race driven by commercial perspectives? For several years, the commercial...
Category: Space Systems
SmallSats Multi-Launch Agreement between Firefly and ALS
Firefly Aerospace, Inc and Adaptive Launch Solutions (ALS), announced they have signed a multi-year Launch Services Agreement (LSA) which includes four Alpha launches beginning in 2021. Firefly Aerospace Inc., Austin, TX, is committed to...
Leonardo will study how to defend the Galileo Program from cyberattacks.
Attacks on satellite networks are heavily concerned by satellite operators. As far as the European context is concerned, the European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen Leonardo for a Galileo data security management study, also...
Military Nano-Satellites
At an age where warfare technologies are being developed everyday, the military must set its eyes on the future constantly. Leaders of the world are trying ot focus on the most recent technologies, which...
Aerospace and the Environment
Technologies and solutions to protect the Aerospace and the Environment from the Aerospace “Who produces dirt, must also clean it!” This is one of the messages launched by the Chief of Staff of the Air...
”Microsatellites and Cubesats: technologies and solutions for safer space”
“Microsatellites and Cubesats: technologies and solutions for safer space activities” is the title of a workshop organized by the AFCEA Rome Chapter at the ITAF Centro Sperimentale di Volo (CSV); The most innovative technologies,...
NG Hypersonic XS-1 are to fly 10 times in 10 days and exceed Mach 10
Northrop Grumman has unveiled its vertical-launch, horizontal-landing reusable booster design for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) XS-1 experimental spaceplane program. Northrop, teamed with subsidiary Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, is working under a 13-month,...
ESSP: 216 mE to Telespazio to provide services for the EGNOS programme until 2021
Telespazio won a contract worth EUR 216 million with the European Satellite Service Provider (ESSP) as part of the EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) satellite navigation programme. The eight-year contract was signed today...
Italy and Space
50 years in business: the lessons of the past to face the future Rome, CASD, June 25, 2013 They are so many themes, critical issues, clear proposals and requests to the Government and Parliament...
Small Satellites Could Offer More Flexibility and Resiliency
One problem with satellites is that they’re either one-offs or part of a constellation of a single, costly design. Both can be expensive and neither lends itself to getting a specialized satellite into orbit...
Small satellites to give persistent-surveillance data to the front lines
Reconnaissance and surveillance experts at the Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., are helping a U.S. military effort to provide useful persistent-surveillance imagery on-demand to the lowest-echelon warfighter in the field from...
Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to USAF
Boeing has delivered two Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE) satellites to the U.S. Air Force that will help assess the value of small satellites in military space operations. Weighing less than 9 pounds (4...
US DoD updates space policy
The U.S. Department of Defense has updated its space policy, aiming at reducing costs and decreasing the risk of attack on space assets. The update reflects on the current budget climate by aiming to...
European Ministers will invest €10 billion in space activities
Adopted Resolutions Ministers adopted the following Resolutions (details made available on ESA’s website): “On the role of ESA in sustaining competitiveness and growth” political and programmatic highlights of the Council; “Level of Resources for...
BAE Systems Helps Modernize National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Applications
BAE Systems recently migrated a server-based mission application into a virtualized data-center environment to increase reliability and reduce operating costs, completing the first task order under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Total Application Services...