Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including ...

The United States and private space companies are advancing ambitious lunar and deep-space programs centered on nuclear power systems. Nuclear technologies, including radioisotope systems and fission ...

It was probably always when, not if, Google would add its name to the list of companies intrigued by the potential of orbiting data centers. Google announced Tuesday a new initiative, named Project ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

U. S. Space Force guardians conduct training and maintenance with the Counter Communications System (CCS) at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, July 2, 2025. (Amber Mullins/U.S. Space Force). As the ...

Satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) face a harsher environment due to plasma, trapped electrons, solar particles, and cosmic rays, with the environmental effect higher in magnitude compared with ...