Space

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Space

Patents in focus: Xona’s Pulsar-0 satellite positioning tech

Xona Space Systems  launched its first production satellite, Pulsar-0, on June 20 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The satellite is part of…
August 28, 2025
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Space

Inside Project Kuiper: The patents behind Amazon’s space internet

Amazon has launched itself into orbit with Project Kuiper, its venture into the satellite broadband network industry. On April 28, the company launched 27 of…
June 19, 2025
A hexapod robotic platform with six articulated legs is positioned on a metal base in a laboratory setting, demonstrating the versatility of hexapod designs for advanced robotics research.

How AI is revolutionizing NASA’s autonomous in-space assembly tech

Recent advancements allow the stacked hexapod platforms to be integrated with modern control theory and machine learning algorithms, allowing NASA to create a more effective…
June 7, 2024
A dense band of stars and cosmic dust stretches diagonally across a dark night sky, depicting part of the Milky Way galaxy.

Inflatable telescopes can offer glimpses at the far reaches of space

Inventors from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Texas have outlined in a patent application designs for an inflatable space telescope.
August 25, 2021
A spacecraft with solar panels is docked to a robotic arm above Earth, with the planet's horizon visible in the background.

Airbus is patenting a device that tests solar generators before space launches

German-based Airbus Defense and Space, a division of aerospace giant Airbus, is patenting a device that can test the solar generators of satellites and drones…
August 19, 2021

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