Voyant Photonics has announced its Helium™ Platform  of fully solid-state LiDAR sensors and modules. The solution is built on a silicon photonics chip, enabling a breakthrough architecture designed to deliver unprecedented reliability, integration, and performance for industrial automation, robotics, and mobile autonomy. 

Leveraging Voyant’s proprietary Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC), Helium offers camera-like simplicity and unmatched flexibility. Helium …

Iran has successfully launched three domestically produced satellites into space for agriculture and environmental research from a Russian launch site, marking the seventh time the country has used Russian rockets for satellite deployment, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The remote sensing satellites — Zafar-2, Paya and Kowsar-1.5 — were launched into a low-Earth orbit 500 …

Japan’s space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a setback for the country’s new flagship rocket and its space launch program.

This failure is the second for Japan’s new flagship rocket after its botched 2023 debut flight and six successful flights.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the H3 …

Gilmour Space Technologies has secured $217 million (US$145 million) in private equity funding to expand its Australian manufacturing operations and support the next phase of growth in domestic space capability.

In a news release, the company said the investment round, announced in Queensland, is aimed at scaling rocket and satellite manufacturing as part of Australia’s sovereign space …

Makoto Suwa will become the 8th Japanese astronaut to complete a long-term stay aboard the International Space Station starting around 2027, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has announced.

The mission, which will be Suwa’s first in space, will mark the 15th long-term stay by a Japanese astronaut, according to JAXA.

Suwa, a former senior disaster risk management …