Sustainability
March 8, 2024
Slingshot Aerospace is coming to the United Kingdom and establishing a U.K. base to help win business with international government and commercial customers. Melissa Quinn will be the general manager of its international business. Quinn had been general manager of Slingshot Seradata, but is now taking on a more expanded role. The company announced these…
February 28, 2024
A NASA satellite and a Russian satellite had a close pass in orbit on Wednesday morning, one that LeoLabs called “too close for comfort.” NASA reported that the Department of Defense confirmed the NASA Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Mission (TIMED) spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite passed each other safely in orbit…
February 22, 2024
Dryad Networks purchased 3,000 IoT modules and other connectivity services from EchoStar Mobile for wildfire detection. Dryad provides early detection of wildfires through the Silvanet solution – solar-powered gas sensors deployed in a LoRaWAN mesh network. EchoStar will provide EM2050 modules, powered by Semtech's LR1120 device, to provide embedded LoRaWAN satellite IoT capabilities for the…
February 14, 2024
LeoLabs and Secure World Foundation (SWF) released a joint statement on Wednesday to respond to the accumulation of derelict objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) like spent rocket bodies. LeoLabs and SWF cite that as of January 2024, around 29% of the total mass in LEO consists of these massive objects, 43% of which have been…