Archive for the 'Space' Category
NRO “Ground Moving Target Indicator” Satellites to Track People and Vehicles
March 21st, 2024#longrangekillchains Via: Defense One: The National Reconnaissance Office is gearing up to launch new satellites that will enable the U.S. military and intelligence community to track moving vehicles and people from space. The Air Force wants to replace its aging E-8 JSTARS aircraft, which provide targeting data, with more survivable space assets and hand off […]
SpaceX Is Building Spy Satellite Network for U.S. Intelligence Agency, “No One Can Hide”
March 16th, 2024Via: Reuters: SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company and national security agencies. The network is being built by SpaceX’s Starshield business unit under a $1.8 […]
Intuitive Machines Claims That Their Odysseus Spacecraft Landed On Moon
February 23rd, 2024A livestream of a computer generated simulation was shown… Via: Intuitive Machines: More: First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface
The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar)
February 23rd, 2024Via: Jesse Michels:
Albedo Space: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Will Have 10cm Resolution
February 20th, 2024Via: New York Times: Anyone living in the modern world has grown familiar with diminishing privacy amid a surge security cameras, trackers built into smartphones, facial recognition systems, drones and other forms of digital monitoring. But what makes the overhead surveillance potentially scary, experts say, is its ability to invade areas once seen as intrinsically […]
SpaceX Readying Four Rockets on Launchpads Simultaneously
February 14th, 2024If we exclude woowoo theories, no other entity has had more of a space launch capability than SpaceX. Four SpaceX rockets vertical on SpaceX's four launch pads in Florida, California, and Texas pic.twitter.com/KpXXDyDKao — SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 14, 2024
And Now… US Rep. Mike Turner: “Information Concerning a Serious National Security Threat”
February 14th, 2024Update: Probably an Anti Satellite System Via: Reuters: The space-based weapon U.S. intelligence believes Russia may be developing is more likely a nuclear-powered device to blind, jam or fry the electronics inside satellites than an explosive nuclear warhead to shoot them down, analysts said on Thursday. — Update: Russian Efforts to Develop Nuclear Capability in […]
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
February 6th, 2024Via: Space Weather Archive: Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more satellites have been launched than during the first thirty years of the Space Age. Much of this activity is driven by SpaceX […]
Starlink’s Laser System Is Beaming Over 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day
February 2nd, 2024Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX’s laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. “We’re passing over terabits per second [of data] every day across 9,000 lasers,” SpaceX engineer Travis Brashears said today at SPIE Photonics West, an event in […]
“Pentagon Moves to Declassify Some Secret Space Programs and Technologies”
January 24th, 2024Via: Space.com: The United States Department of Defense (DoD) wants to declassify more space programs in order to boost the nation’s military edge in space. As the world’s superpowers continue to invest in the militarization of space, some leaders at the Pentagon believe it’s time to declassify some of the secretive space programs in the […]
