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 …

Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency just as Beijing accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of crowding shared orbital resources.
A dozen or so submissions from various Chinese satellite players were filed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the end of last month.
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The third satellite part of the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) constellation, owned by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense,  built by Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) and operated in orbit by Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), has successfully been …

The Transporter-15 mission by SpaceX successfully launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. As part of the mission, MICE-1 (Maritime Identification and Communications systEm), the first Greek IoT nanosatellite, was successfully deployed into orbit.

This milestone marks a historic achievement for the Greek tech community, the shipping industry, and domestic …

The Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA) has released its Reference Architecture document, offering strategic recommendations to accelerate the development, deployment, and global integration of open and interoperable Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) solutions.

As satellite communications advance, NTN systems are increasingly vital to extending connectivity to remote and underserved regions, while complementing terrestrial networks. MSSA’s Reference Architecture emphasizes the importance …

Safe Pro Group  has announced the deployment of upgraded artificial intelligence algorithms to its patented Safe Pro Object Threat Detection technology in response to customer requests, enhancing drone operations in GPS and GNSS denied environments. The enhanced capabilities enable rapid battlefield image analysis, including 2D and 3D modeling and explosive threat detection from virtually any …