Monday’s SpaceX launch was carrying a classified satellite to space, but the secret payload was not the cause of an unusual ...

Once up there and fully checked out, the 387-pound (175.5 kilograms) satellite will study Earth with two instruments, the Electro Optical Infrared Payload (EOIR) and the Global Navigation ...

The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) satellite payload was designed and built by [MIT Lincoln Laboratory]. The record of the highest data rate ever achieved by a space-to-Earth optical ...

A record-setting test of quantum communication used a microsatellite to connect ground stations in China and South Africa, ...

the Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry Payload (GNSS-R), and the Electro Optic Infrared Payload (EOIR). For uses like satellite-based surveillance, disaster monitoring, environmental ...

the Ariane 62 version of the launcher is due to carry the CSO-3 optical and infrared satellite into orbit for the French Air Force's Space Command. Although carrying a military payload ...

We have a pretty ordinary week of rocket launches coming up. Notably, SpaceX will be launching a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Inovor notes that the vast amount of data behind each image allows them to be processed to reveal infrared ... The satellite also features an Internet of Things (IoT) payload developed and ...