Space Technology

We are proud to announce Inventure’s investment in value.space’s €2.1 million seed round together with Specialist VC, Superangel, Lemonade Stand, BADideas.fund, Amalfi and Linnar Viik. It goes without saying that power grids, water systems, transportation networks, and communication systems are load bearing structures that support our normal daily life. Any…

In honor of May the Fourth be with You, we asked our Aerospace engineers and scientists about their favorites. — Happy May the Fourth*, Space Enthusiasts! With this unofficial Aerospace holiday approaching, we reached out to the most knowledgeable people we know — our own engineers and scientists—to ask what we can believe from our favorite movies and TV shows about space. The responses were impressive! Read on to learn…

The SPARTA framework offers space professionals a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. v1.3 delivers significant updates. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Brad Roeher; Updated on May 9, 2023, with v1.3.1 A Brief History of SPARTA Releases: SPARTA version 1.0 was released on October 19th, 2022, during the Value of Space Summit hosted by the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).

AI assistants for astronauts isn’t a novel concept. The question is, will the real-life HAL 9000 follow the script? — We live in an AI-powered world. You don’t need to be tech-savvy to know the powerhouse that’s driving recent innovations — it is undeniably the era of Artificial Intelligence. Thomas Edison changed the course of human history when he debuted the electric bulb. …

SATELLITE 2023, one of the world’s largest satellite industry conferences, was held in Washington, D.C., March 13–16, 2023. Along with the Space Symposium held in April and the Smallsat Conference held in February, SATELLITE is one of the three most significant conference events in the U.S. …

With Python And Lightkurve — By now, most of us are familiar with our solar system: our star — the Sun — the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, various dwarf planets, and numerous moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. …

Our Expert’s Insights on the Intersection of AI, Simulation Tools, and Space Technology — AI uses massive amounts of data to help us explain, predict, and optimize; modeling and simulation tools leverage data to gather evidence and test different scenarios. Integration of these two fields holds promising implications for space systems innovation. Currently, these capabilities are used in space for more traditional purposes, e.g…

Review Paper — Abstract Current ventures in multiplanetary exploration center around the idea of space colonization. The idea of becoming a space faring species is a breathtaking endeavor, but is currently dependent on finding a celestial body with Earth-like characteristics. The probability of finding a celestial body like Earth is low, and humanity’s potential…

Space mining is an emerging field that holds tremendous potential for the future of resource management, space exploration, and the global economy. …