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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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The future of space cyber is smart, vigilant, and zero-trust

With over 12,000 active satellites delivering global communications, space has become a highly sophisticated cyber domain. As our dependence on these systems grows, so does the risk.
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The latest Tech Talks takes on CAVE Lab's autonomous systems

In the latest episode of Tech Talks, Aerospace's Kevin Bell interviews Ben Bycroft, head of the CAVE Lab and director of the department that runs it.
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SPARTEND combines space cybersecurity knowledge with AI detection smarts

The threat of critical space infrastructure being disabled with nothing more than a keyboard has prompted a wave of cybersecurity research in the domain, including a new tool from Aerospace engineers called SPARTEND.
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Spoon Bender demo day shows a future test bed for agentic AI

Aerospace recently hosted a group of commercial companies and researchers for a live demo of a digital wargame called Spoon Bender that simulates complex satellite conflict on orbit. The software is being adapted as a...
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See Aerospace's latest AR/VR and simulation tools at Payload's event this week

Space news outlet Payload is hosting its Lunar and Mars Economy Summit this week, and Aerospace will be there, both to take part in the agenda and to show off our newest software projects.
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Fox Business visits Aerospace HQ to see advances in AI and orbital defense

Fox Business anchor Max Gorden recently visited Aerospace's Tech Campus in El Segundo, where he interviewed Steve Isakowitz live for the Varney & Co and Big Money shows.
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A new model to guide the wild space ecosystem towards shared goals

Commercial innovation is driving transformation of the space enterprise in low Earth orbit, cislunar space, the Moon, and beyond. How can such a fast-moving, complex endeavor be guided? A new paper from Aerospace...
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Aerospace, NASA and ISRO collaborate on a pioneering Earth observation mission

There's a new satellite in orbit, just launched by India's ISRO space agency. The NISAR mission will soon begin the task of scanning the Earth's surface with unprecedented precision, and Aerospace helped prepare it for...
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What’s next up in space? Find out on Aerospace's new podcast, NEXUS

Aerospace has teamed up with T-Minus Space Daily for a new monthly segment, NEXUS, where you’ll hear directly from how commercial space companies how they’re taking on some of the toughest and most rewarding challenges...

NEXUS Episode 3: In-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing

Episode 3 explores the budding in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM) sector of the space industry.
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Aerospace 'riskgaming' exercise swaps government and industry roles to spur collaboration

Aerospace recently held the Space Transformation Summit, convening government leaders, commercial space companies, and defense officials all interested in working better together. As part of that event, a small group...

NEXUS Episode 2: Turning data into decisions

Episode 2 takes a deep dive on how artificial intelligence is escalating the usefulness of information and how, when viewed through a new lens, once underestimated and underappreciated datasets may yield illuminating...

Tech Talks: Measuring the effect of radiation on space-bound electronics

The latest episode of Tech Talks takes on the question of radiation in space and its effects on electronics in spacecraft.
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DiskSat readies up for launch with NASA's help

Aerospace has a long history of pioneering new satellite form factors, such as CubeSats. The latest innovation is DiskSat, a type of spacecraft only 2.5 centimeters thick but still highly capable and versatile.
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Coming to SXSW? Vote to see these space panels on stage

SXSW is soliciting panel topics from anyone who has a good one — and we think we have a few! If you agree, you can now vote for as many as you like.
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Space Force's funding boost detailed in new budget analysis

The proposed 2026 budget lays out an enormous amount of money for space-based initiatives, effectively increasing the Space Force budget by nearly 40 percent, according to a new analysis.
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Aerospace researcher joins Mars analog mission in the arctic

To prepare for the next stage of space exploration and habitation, researchers here on Earth must practice in the nearest thing we have to other worlds.
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To make space rescues possible, start with a plan to plan

To perform space rescues safely and effectively, we first need to plan for them — and to back those plans up, a firm foundation of hardware interoperability and standard procedures.
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Digital twin of cislunar space tests the limits of interoperability

Cislunar space is filling up, and researchers at Aerospace have created a simulation of it where operators can practice safe and effective missions and communications.
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Aerospace helps achieve 3-month turnaround for Space Force launch that once would have taken 2 years

Orbital launches are now planned and executed faster than you could even pick a date in the old days. But that doesn't mean they're any less complicated.