Debra Werner

San Francisco

Correspondent at SpaceNews

Contributor at Aerospace America

Freelance writer, @SpaceNews_Inc Email: [email protected] and Debra Werner 1-415-412-5819 on Signal

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ClearSpace completes second phase of UK debris-removal mission

1 week ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

PUAKO, Hawaii — ClearSpace completed the second phase of the UK Space Agency’s Active Debris Removal (ADR) mission, by testing and refining technology to remove satellites from low-Earth orbit. In mechanical testing, ClearSpace’s robotic system proved its ability to withstand launch loads. Image-processing algorithms showed they could detect and track space debris. And ClearSpace demonstrated proximity operations in a hardware-based spacecraft emulator.
Okapi raises 13 million euros to expand space traffic management suite

3 weeks ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

SAN FRANCISCO – German space traffic management startup Okapi:Orbits raised 13 million euros ($14.75 million) in a seed funding round announced April 24. With the new investment, Okapi will expand its “product portfolio, grow our international team and enhance our proprietary data sets,” Kristina Nikolaus, Okapi co-founder and CEO, told SpaceNews by email.
Northwood raises $30 million to establish ground station network

3 weeks ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

SAN FRANCISCO — Northwood Space raised $30 million in a Series A round to establish a global network of phased array ground stations. Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led the investment round. Additional funding came from Also Capital, Founders Fund, Box Group, Balerion, Banter Capital and Humba Ventures.
OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites

3 weeks ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensive and ambitious program. The plan was included in the draft 2026 budget proposal, called the passback, prepared by the White House Office of Management and Budget and delivered to NOAA earlier this month.
True commercial alternatives for strategic communications and PNT don’t exist — yet

1 month ago | copernical.com | Debra Werner

COLORADO SPRINGS – Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may […]
True commercial alternatives for strategic communications and PNT don’t exist — yet

1 month ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

COLORADO SPRINGS – Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may not exist. That was one takeaway from an April 8 press briefing with Space Systems Command (SSC) officials.
Surge in NATO spending to benefit space sector

1 month ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

COLORADO SPRINGS – The space sector is likely to benefit from increased defense spending by NATO allies, European military leaders said at the Space Symposium. At the NATO Summit in the Netherlands June, leaders may pledge national defense spending “as high as 3.5 percent” of their gross domestic products, said Tom Goffus, NATO assistant secretary for general operations.
Surge in NATO spending to benefit space sector

1 month ago | copernical.com | Debra Werner

COLORADO SPRINGS – The space sector is likely to benefit from increased defense spending by NATO allies, European military leaders said at the Space Symposium.
Startups are preparing for the launch of space-based solar power

1 month ago | spacenews.com | Debra Werner

Electrical engineer Ed Tate was skeptical of proposals for space-based solar power when he initially heard about the concept seven years ago. “My first reaction was, ‘That really sounds like science fiction. I don’t think that will work,’” Tate said in March at the Satellite 2025 conference. Now, Tate said, he’s “personally invested in making it happen” as chief technology officer for Virtus Solis Technologies, a Michigan startup planning to assemble a solar array in orbit in 2027.
Seeing the light: Cubesats share optical data

1 month ago | copernical.com | Debra Werner

Colorado Springs — Within days of each other in late February and early March, the Aerospace Corp. and Spire Global announced similar breakthroughs: demonstrating optical intersatellite links between cubesats. News […]The post Seeing the light: Cubesats share optical data appeared first on SpaceNews. Read more from original source...