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Portugal-based Neuraspace secured €15.6 million from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Armilar Venture Partners and the country’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. The financing will support expansion of its AI-enabled space domain awareness and space traffic management platform for commercial, institutional and defense satellite operators.
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Portugal-based Neuraspace secured €15.6 million from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Armilar Venture Partners and the country’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. The financing will support expansion of its AI-enabled space domain awareness and space traffic management platform for commercial, institutional and defense satellite operators.
With a Falcon 9 upper stage expected to impact the moon this week, NASA and SpaceX are examining ways to prevent similar lunar collisions in the future. The effort highlights the need to account for spent launch hardware beyond Earth orbit and during deep-space missions.
Astronomers at the University of Warwick have detected tiny, previously undocumented debris in geosynchronous orbit—among the faintest ever observed. The observations provide new data for characterizing how these objects behave, strengthening understanding of a difficult-to-monitor hazard in a strategically important orbital regime.
As companies develop plans for data centers in orbit, experts are urging the industry to establish safety practices early. The emerging constellations raise unresolved questions about orbital coordination, traffic management and the long-term effects of adding significant infrastructure to an already contested space environment.
A spacecraft tasked with raising NASA’s Swift Observatory to a higher orbit suffered a malfunction and began tumbling several days ago. Engineers believe recovery remains possible, even as the setback complicates plans to achieve the observatory’s target orbit.
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is expected to strike the Moon near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5 at roughly 8,700 kilometers per hour. Scientists plan to study the resulting crater and ejecta, while the event highlights unresolved questions around lunar impact research and space law.
Astronomers used “blind stacking” to detect faint, previously unseen objects in geosynchronous orbit, highlighting debris risks in GEO—an increasingly critical environment for GPS, weather tracking, and communications satellites. The reporting underscores the need to keep GEO clear of collision hazards that could disable key services.
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