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Until December 2013, when China’s Yutu rover rolled onto the lunar surface, the United States and Russia were smug in being the only countries to successfully land spacecraft on the Moon. That exclusive club was just blown open in August 2023 by the historic success of India’s Vikram lander reaching the Moon’s south pole.
Read MoreU.S. leaders have noted growing threats in space from satellites designed to manipulate, damage, destroy or even hijack orbital targets, ground-based lasers and creative hackers.
Read MoreWith expertise in small satellites and coastal launch facilities under construction, Scotland aims to capture nearly $5 billion of the global space economy by 2030. It’s a rapid transformation for a country within the United Kingdom that had virtually no space firms 20 years ago and now boasts more than 8,000 space workers.
Read MoreAfter a slowdown in hiring in the last half of 2022, U.S. space-related employment numbers through July 2023 are showing signs of recovery.
Read MoreIn 1952, former Director of Central Intelligence Walter Bedell Smith estimated the chances of UFOs posing a threat to national security to be one in 10,000, “but even that chance could not be taken.”
Read MoreAs the space industry works to mass-produce satellites and launch vehicles, space firms continue to struggle to acquire skilled labor.
Read MoreAfter more than a decade’s worth of planning, seven years of space flight, and 1 billion miles of travel, a sample from the asteroid Bennu has returned to Earth — but the work is only beginning.
Read MoreWhile most people may think of ChatGPT or deep fake images when they hear “artificial intelligence”, AI methodologies are proving beneficial for a variety of applications, especially in data-heavy industries such as Earth observation.
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