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The FCC hosted a Space Bureau Transparency Event titled "Don’t Get Grounded: Understanding the Interagency Review of Satellites Prior to Launch." The event delved into the pre-launch review process conducted by U.S. government agencies for satellites and payloads. Speakers from various agencies, including the FAA, State Department, and NOAA, discussed their roles, challenges faced by both government and industry, and strategies to streamline the review process.  🚀 Watch the stream here: https://lnkd.in/gtiV5buu 

🚀 The global space economy soared 7.4% in 2023, reaching $570B, according to the Space Foundation’s annual Space Report. Commercial revenues hit $445B, with sectors like Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) leading at $209B. Government spending also saw an 11% boost to $125B, driven by military space budgets. Discover more about the industry’s impressive growth and key insights from the Payload article here 👇 https://lnkd.in/g4ziaSEN #spaceeconomy #spaceindustry #commercialspace

Look to Slingshot Aerospace first for what’s happening in the space operating domain. “Events like this highlight the importance of adherence to existing space debris mitigation guidelines to reduce the creation of new space debris and underscore the need for robust space domain awareness capabilities to rapidly detect, track, and catalog newly-launched space objects so they can be screened for potential conjunctions.” - Audrey Schaffer, VP of Strategy & Policy, Slingshot Aerospace. Read more via CNN: https://lnkd.in/g9hE2uTj

Hypersonic Airspace: How Hypersonic Weapons Conquer and Define the Realm Between Airspace and Space - https://lnkd.in/gMVeNAXF With their challenging trajectories, hypersonic weapons challenge the existing international space and airspace structure and blur the line between airspace and space. Therefore, the existing set of rules, habits, and practices in airspace and space need a mutual rethinking. Introducing “hypersonic airspace” as a buffer zone between space and airspace could help cope with this challenge.

Hypersonic Airspace: How Hypersonic Weapons Conquer and Define the Realm Between Airspace and Space - https://lnkd.in/gMVeNAXF With their challenging trajectories, hypersonic weapons challenge the existing international space and airspace structure and blur the line between airspace and space. Therefore, the existing set of rules, habits, and practices in airspace and space need a mutual rethinking. Introducing “hypersonic airspace” as a buffer zone between space and airspace could help cope with this challenge.

How we disrupt:

Since 1958, with the passive communication satellite put into orbit through Project West Ford, MIT Lincoln Laboratory has made monumental achievements in exploiting space for reliable long-range radio-frequency (RF) connectivity. Eight LES and adaptive satellite antennas were developed from 1963 through 1980 to address military needs for reliable, long-range connectivity. Uncover the history of the Lincoln Experimental Satellites (LES) on our new website that features an interactive tool to visualize the orbit of LES-1, still transmitting as one of the oldest satellites in space. https://ow.ly/qgGW50UHEYP

My opinion titled “Preventing Space Warfare” on this month’s World Times talks about the militarization of space and its direction towards space warfare. The solution is human solution i.e. humans uniting together for humanity. #SpaceSustainability #SpaceWarfare #SpaceExploration

The US Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace $1.9 million to further develop technology that detects where and when nefarious actors are jamming global positioning systems. Adversaries can use GPS jamming to reduce combat effectiveness and wreak havoc on commercial industry.