space domain awareness

How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software can help

As the space around Earth becomes increasingly littered with man-made debris, scientists are stepping up efforts to preserve satellites in real time. The latest of these efforts are new algorithms being developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to automatically track and protect spacecraft from crashing into satellites. asteroids inside cislunar space — The… Read More »

Tiny and mysterious, the Pentagon’s X-37B is preparing for relaunch

It’s a tiny spaceplane, not quite 30 feet long and less than 10 feet high, with a pair of short wings and a rounded, bulldog-like nose. But despite its small size (it looks like a miniature version of the space shuttle), the Pentagon’s most mysterious spacecraft, known as X-37B, has achieved enormous fame. A secret… Read More »