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Xi proposes Global Development Initiative (Xinhua, Global Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday proposed a Global Development Initiative in steering global development toward a new stage of balanced, coordinated and inclusive...

The Potential Effects of COVID-19 on Radicalisation to Violent Extremism (Garth Davies, Edith Wu, Richard Frank, GNET)

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the newly discovered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a pandemic. COVID-19 has upended virtually...

NASA picks landing site for VIPER lunar rover (Jeff Foust, Space News)

NASA has selected a crater near the south pole of the moon as the landing site for a robotic rover to search for water...

GPS Offers Lessons for the Infrastructure of Tomorrow (J. David Grossman, Space News)

With the Senate’s passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last month, lawmakers are on the cusp of bringing long awaited funding to modernize...

Drones are accelerating OneWeb’s antenna tests (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

OneWeb is using drones from Danish startup QuadSat to accelerate ground segment tests as it aims to bring part of its low Earth orbit...

Space Force looking for ‘unity’ in acquisitions despite a medley of agencies (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

The U.S. Space Force has an acquisitions arm called the Space Systems Command. A separate Space Rapid Capabilities Office that procures classified systems reports...

Terran Orbital acquires new satellite development facility (Debra Werner, Space News)

Terran Orbital, the parent company of Tyvak and PredaSAR, has leased a new four-story facility in Irvine, California, to house satellite design, engineering and...

Tomorrow.io orders demo satellites for rain-tracking constellation (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

Meteorological intelligence startup Tomorrow.io says it picked California-based Astro Digital to build the first two of potentially dozens of small satellites equipped with storm-tracking...

Space Force reveals which Army and Navy units are moving to the space branch (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

U.S. Army and Navy units that operate communications satellites next month will be realigned under the U.S. Space Force, chief of space operations Gen....

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