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Introducing Kickstage, your new source for all the latest from Aerospace

The Aerospace Corporation has a lot going on, today and since the dawn of the first space age. To keep up, we're launching Kickstage, our new front page for collecting everything we do and make that we think people ought to know about.
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Tanya Pemberton, Gen Gutlein, and VADM Whitworth at Space Symposium.

Space Force and Intel leaders working to close the data gap

At Space Symposium, Aerospace’s Tanya Pemberton hosted a discussion with defense and intelligence leadership on the importance (and challenge) of sharing data between their services.
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Watch the first episode of Tech Talks, about GPS jamming and what we can do about it

GPS signals are being jammed and spoofed all over the globe in a sudden uptick of this once rare activity. What can be done about it? Find out in the first episode of Tech Talks.
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Aerospace and Palantir leaders: Unshackle innovation to keep America out front in space

Aerospace's CEO Steve Isakowitz and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar warn that if the U.S. doesn't embrace innovation and commercial space and defense, it will be left behind by those that do.
Lunanet concept art on lunar surface

International collaboration leads to LunaNet, a new space communications standard

As the space around the Moon and Mars become popular destinations for both commercial and government spacecraft, communication is key — and the infrastructure out there is nowhere near robust enough to handle the...

Innovation Spotlight: Aerospace engineer Hagop Chinchinian

Hagop Chinchinian does tracking and analysis work that's vital for situational awareness and resiliency of both national security and commercial space. Hear his story in this Innovation Spotlight!
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If you want space at speed, let decision makers off the leash, industry leaders say

The conversation at this year's Space Symposium has had a strong focus on the acknowledged need to embrace commercial services, and what has to happen to enable that.
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Keeping America’s edge in space means moving faster and with flexibility, says Aerospace CEO

In a new opinion piece in Space News, Aerospace CEO Steve Isakowitz and co-authors explore how the U.S. has to start moving faster and deploying its legendary innovation culture to the purpose of maintaining American...
Tanya Pemberton, Gen Gutlein, and VADM Whitworth at Space Symposium.

Space Force and Intel leaders working to close the data gap

At Space Symposium, Aerospace’s Tanya Pemberton hosted a discussion with defense and intelligence leadership on the importance (and challenge) of sharing data between their services.
COSMIC executive director Greg Richardson at a podium.

ISAM isn't just an industry, it's a spectrum of capabilities, says COSMIC director

Aerospace's Greg Richardson talks to Payload about the definition of in-space assembly and manufacturing and how we ought to pursue it.
Europe seen from space.

What will the EU Space Act's new regulations mean for the industry?

The European Union is preparing to release the EU Space Act later in 2025, which will establish new regulations and requirements for space companies providing services within its dominion.

It's part of a tentative global...
The word Kickstage over a picture of a launch control room.

Introducing Kickstage, your new source for all the latest from Aerospace

The Aerospace Corporation has a lot going on, today and since the dawn of the first space age. To keep up, we're launching Kickstage, our new front page for collecting everything we do and make that we think people ought...
The Aerospace Logo above an aerial image of the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.

Here's what Aerospace is up to at Space Symposium

It's the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and The Aerospace Corporation is here to meet with industry and government players, as well as hear from startups, investors, and the next generation of space talent...
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Aerospace's network of testbeds clocks early successes with space startups

One of the most intractable challenges to realizing space innovation is the “flight-proven” paradox, in which new technologies lack flight heritage and struggle to gain the confidence of the investors, insurers, buyers...
A sign reading "Space Leadership Forum" in Amazon's HQ2.

Space policymakers and CEOs put their heads together at the first Space Leadership Forum

On February 13, a select group of experts, leaders, and policymakers from public and commercial space came together for the first-ever Space Leadership Forum, hosted by Aerospace and the Center for Space Policy and...
Blue illustration of particles of radiation

Aerospace helps DARPA investigate new radiation testing methods

Operating in the space environment presents a multitude of challenges. Among them are the intense radiation outside of Earth's atmosphere, and high-energy particles causing "Single Event Effects" or SEEs with electronics...

TRL Bootcamp levels up early-stage startups to connect with government customers

Aerospace and the US Space Force's SpaceWERX are fast tracking commercial technologies to meet the rapidly evolving needs of national security space in a new program called TRL Bootcamp.
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Aerospace's wargaming for space threats plays out unique new threats and solutions

With space emerging as a warfighting domain, we need to improve our understanding of capabilities and systems in and beyond orbit can be protected from emerging threats and adversaries. Aerospace recently conducted an...
Steve Isakowitz and A.C. Charania onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Space and innovation collide on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt

New opportunities for commercial collaboration are driving rapid innovation, opening up new pathways and options for the nation’s space programs to approach mission designs and systems. Recently held in San Francisco...
GOES-U GOES-19 - NOAA Lockheed (Public Domain).

Supporting weather satellites for stormwatching and science

As Hurricane Helene prepared to make landfall near Perry, Florida on Sept. 27, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured the phenomena through the Geostationary Operational Environmental...

'Lighter, nimbler, faster, better': Space robots stretch out with flexible circuits

Engineers at The Aerospace Corporation have developed what they call an Autodynamic Flexible Circuit, which will enable new adaptable and resilient approaches for space robotics, satellites and other innovations for...
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Hundreds of students share their STEM dreams at Aerospace science competition

In May, hundreds of students from across the nation participated in the annual Robert H. Herndon Memorial Science Competition (RHHMSC), giving them the opportunity to explore their passion for space.A key part of...