A decade ago, the commercial space industry in the United States celebrated a hard-fought victory in efforts to reform export controls. After years of effort, the State Department enacted changes to ...

State-space digital filters constitute a versatile class of algorithms used to process signals by modelling dynamic systems through state variables. Their representation encompasses both the system’s ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role as ...

Vandenberg Tracking Station and the Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility support the Satellite Control Network. Credit: U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Akima’s ...

This photo provided by Maxar Technologies shows the SpaceX Starship on the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Wood, Stephen / AP In 1959, science writer Willy Ley sat down ...

The startup principle “fail fast, learn faster” has defined the American space industry for much of the 21st century. The U.S. private sector has pushed the technical boundaries in rocket launch, low ...