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6:46pm, 31st July, 2019

Cryptographic ICE Cube tests orbital cybersecurity protocols aboard the ISS

Encryption in space can be tricky. Even if you do everything right, a cosmic ray might come along and flip a bit, sabotaging the whole secure protocol. So if you can’t radiation-harden the computer, what can you do? European Space Agency researchers...

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

11:18pm, 21st March, 2019

Space

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

The software-defined SWIFT-SLX S-band radio is designed to fit on a CubeSat-class satellite. (Tethers Unlimited Photo) Tethers Unlimited weathered a wave of bad news over the winter, but now some good news has bloomed. The company, headquartered in B...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon makes its first orbital launch tonight

2:54pm, 1st March, 2019

Gadgets

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon makes its first orbital launch tonight

After years of development and delays, Crew Dragon is ready to launch into orbit. It’s the first commercially built and operated crewed spacecraft ever to do so, and represents in many ways the public-private partnership that could define the future...

1:44pm, 10th October, 2018

Space

Blue Origin resets schedule: First crew to space in 2019, first orbital launch in 2021

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith shows a video of a BE-4 rocket engine firing during the Aerospace Futures Alliance Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is now plann...

1:14am, 3rd September, 2018

Space

Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism

Space Adventures facilitated two trips to the International Space Station for Seattle billionaire Charles Simonyi, in 2007 and 2009. (NASA Photo via Space Adventures) More than 17 years after put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine...

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Cryptographic ICE Cube tests orbital cybersecurity protocols aboard the ISS

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon makes its first orbital launch tonight

Blue Origin resets schedule: First crew to space in 2019, first orbital launch in 2021

Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism

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