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NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Sequential Phase II program selected space robotic technology company Astrobotic, to develop, test, and fly lunar night survival and communication technologies aboard the CubeRover platform, Astrobotic said. 

Orbital Reef, Sierra Space and Blue Origin’s upcoming commercial space station, has successfully completed its System Definition Review (SDR) with NASA. The SDR is key to establishing the functional baseline for the commercially developed, owned and operated low-Earth orbit (LEO) Orbital Reef.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) issued a warning to its 193 Member States on the harmful interference such as blocking, jamming or serious degradation of radio-wave-based services.  ITU defines harmful interference as a radio system receiving unwanted energy to an extent that inhibits the functioning of a radio-navigation service.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of our Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, showing fine details along with its rings, satellites, and even galaxies in one image, giving scientists more information on the planet’s inner processes.  

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office selected space data provider SpaceLink, to participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain, SpaceLink said.

Software infrastructure company, Leanspace, hosted a live demonstration of digital continuity together with browser based tool provider, Valispace, showcasing a native integration between software tools used to design and operate satellites enabling collaboration across the space mission life-cycle, Leanspace said.

Intelsat filed a 30-day license application with the FCC to operate the Galaxy 15 satellite serving media customers in North America, outside of the +/- 0.05 degree East/West station-keeping box as it lost control of the broadcast satellite due to a geomagnetic storm.

This episode of Space Café Canada will feature Dr. Ram Jakhu and David Kuan-Wei Chen of McGill’s Centre for Air and Space Law, which spearheaded the newly released McGill Manual, the world’s first to clarify international law applicable to military uses of outer space, in conversation with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global.

In this Space Café Radio – SpaceWatch.Global Event coordinator and Space Café Young Global Talents Host Chiara Moenter spoke with Craig Donlon, principal scientist for oceans and ice at the European Space Agency (ESA), at the Living Planet Symposium in Bonn. This symposium is the world’s largest Earth Observation conference.

Lithuania has launched Startupcation, a one-week visit program inviting non-EU startups to be part of the booming startup ecosystem of the country’s capital and startup hub, Vilnius, national startup ecosystem facilitator Startup Lithuania said.  Through the program, startups benefit from access to the country’s relevant business networks and hubs.