Political infighting is undermining the European Union's biggest ever joint technology programmeme: the Galileo satellite navigation network.
China's decision to expand the functionality of its satellite navigation network could undermine the economics of Europe's nascent Galileo system, according to sources close to the project.
An antimatter-aided space drive might bring deep-space missions within our grasp. Engineers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University say that by the end of the century, spacecraft could reach the edges of the Solar System and beyond. They believe an antimatter drive could lead to a one-year round trip to Jupiter, a five-year trek to the heliopause--the boundary separating the Solar System from interstellar space--and, in a 50-year trip, the Oort Cloud, source of the comets.
A U.S. Air Force team constructed a satellite jammer capable of knocking out sensitive military satellites using off-the-shelf equipment and knowledge gained from the internet.