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Galaxy 1 partners with Viasat to deliver rapid, scalable and securecommunications for uncrewed aircraft

Galaxy 1 Communications, a leader in satellite connectivity and secure Internet of Things (IoT) solutions,

2027 Audi RS5 first drive: Big thrills with a big battery

There's more waffling going on about the future of electric vehicles in America right now than you might expect at a Belgian breakfast buffet. Some brands like Hyundai are staying committed, some brands like Honda are dialing back, and everyone else is simply doing their damndest to provide as many propulsion options as possibleCount Audi in that last category. On the EV side, it recently launched the new Q6 E-Tron and refreshed the ballistic E-Tron GT. On the internal combustion side, it has a

Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom goes with Starlink for satellite fill-in

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica touts sovereign infrastructure project; O2 UK invests in network; MTN looks to connect refugees.

Redwire unveils new solar array

Redwire has introduced a new solar array product designed for mass-produced satellites that require high performance while minimizing mass. The post Redwire unveils new solar array appeared first on SpaceNews.

Spectrum showdown

As satellite communications constellations grow in size and number, they are also competing for a scarce and increasingly valuable resource: spectrum, the bands of radio frequencies that are crucial for communications and broadband service — and for tracking weather. The pace is intensifying as companies race to expand global communications networks, raising alarms at some […] The post Spectrum showdown appeared first on SpaceNews.

Satellite images reveal fresh destruction at Natanz nuclear facility

Three buildings were destroyed between Sunday and Monday, weeks after the site was previously struck. It remains unclear who was responsible for the attack

Before-and-after satellite imagery reveals impact of strikes on Iran

U.S. forces struck across Iran and the Israel Defense Forces fired 2,000 munitions in 36 hours. These are some of the strike sites as seen from space

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet

After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country.

Why Satellites Fail — and How to Protect Them

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Jean-François Morizur, the CEO and founder of Cailabs, a French company focused on ground-to-satellite laser optical communications. As satellites play a more critical and contested role than ever in global and defense communications, we asked him to share his thoughts on the emerging satellite-protection industry and growing a deep-tech company.In popular techno-thrillers, major conflicts often begin with a sudden satellite-driven&#160

Open Cosmos joins Europe's satellite connectivity space race

UK-based Open Cosmos aims to launch a European LEO alternative for space-based connectivity and network resilience.

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

The ice along Antarctica’s ‘grounding lines’ has been largely stable over the past 30 years – but ice has retreated by more than 40 km in some areas, a new study based on satellite data finds.

Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions

MWC 2026: Seen & heard on Day 2

Day 2 started with a public transport delay on the L1, but improved after briefings on U.S. regulations, more satellite news, and 6G prep.

Space Inventor and Gate Space Partner to Develop 'BEACONSAT', Austria's First Military Satellite

Space Inventor is partnering with GATE Space on the BEACONSAT mission to launch Austria’s first military satellite and largest domestically-developed satellite. BEACONSAT will provide critical data on GNSS interference to support both military and civilian situational awareness. Scheduled for launch in February 2027, BEACONSAT is designed to detect and analyze interference with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including jamming and spoofing. The post Space Inventor and Gate Space Part

MWC: Skylo bets on standards to make satellite just another cell site

Rather than launching satellites, Skylo is building the software and standards layer that could finally integrate satellite connectivity into mainstream cellular networks.

Why Not? Solver-Grounded Certificates for Explainable Mission Planning

arXiv:2603.00469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operators of Earth observation satellites need justifications for scheduling decisions: why a request was selected, rejected, or what changes would make it schedulable. Existing approaches construct post-hoc reasoning layers independent of the optimizer, risking non-causal attributions, incomplete constraint conjunctions, and solver-path dependence. We take a faithfulness-first approach: every explanation is a certificate derived from the optimiza

GRAD-Former: Gated Robust Attention-based Differential Transformer for Change Detection

arXiv:2603.01161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Change detection (CD) in remote sensing aims to identify semantic differences between satellite images captured at different times. While deep learning has significantly advanced this field, existing approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers and Selective State Space Models (SSMs) still struggle to precisely delineate change regions. In particular, traditional transformer-based methods suffer from quadratic computati

CityLens: Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing

arXiv:2506.00530v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding urban socioeconomic conditions through visual data is a challenging yet essential task for sustainable urban development and policy planning. In this work, we introduce \textit{CityLens}, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) in predicting socioeconomic indicators from satellite and street view imagery. We construct a multi-modal dataset covering a total of 17 glob

Near--Real-Time Conflict-Related Fire Detection in Sudan Using Unsupervised Deep Learning

arXiv:2512.07925v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ongoing armed conflict in Sudan highlights the need for rapid monitoring of conflict-related fire-affected areas. Recent advances in deep learning and high-frequency satellite imagery enable near--real-time assessment of active fires and burn scars in war zones. This study presents a near--real-time monitoring approach using a lightweight Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE)--based model integrated with 4-band Planet Labs imagery at 3 m spatia

New satellite photos show apparent attack on Iran nuclear site: report

Commercial satellite imagery has captured what appears to be the first known strikes on an Iranian nuclear site since the start of the US-Israeli air operation, an independent policy institute said on Monday. The Institute for Science and International Security said imagery produced by Colorado-based Vantor showed two strikes on access points to the underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, which was hit by the US last June. David Albright, a former UN ‌nuclear inspector and founder of the