The Hyperspace Challenge took one giant leap for startup-kind last November, holding its first Hyperdrive Space Summit since the annual business accelerator launched in 2018. While keeping true to its core value of tight-knit collaboration, the two-day event, hosted in Albuquerque, N.M., marked a dynamic evolution of scope and scale
It was 65 years ago that the first satellite, Russia’s beach-ball sized space probe Sputnik 1, launched into Earth’s orbit. Aside from naturally-occurring meteoroids, Sputnik drifted alone in a pristine realm, like a shiny new car on a remote desert highway, only the occasional tumbleweed rolling past. Incredibly, today, low-Earth
It’s been five years since the first Hyperspace Challenge program commenced in the fall of 2018. Now, after the business accelerator has supported the work of 61 startups and universities, and dozens of government innovators, the team is asking, what’s next? Where It Started The Hyperspace Challenge began with a
Since the development of the first artificial satellite in 1957 (Sputnik), the evolution of what can be done in space by unmanned technology has gripped the imagination of engineers, scientists, and space-enthusiasts alike. Technology has made great strides since those early days and the possibilities for autonomous machines in space
The James Webb Telescope recently wowed the world with stunningly scenic photos of never-before-seen space objects so distant from earth that viewing them is akin to cosmic time travel, back to the Big Bang. Advances in infrared light detection capabilities – along with an incredibly large 6.5-meter diameter mirror –
From the steam engine locomotive to the personal computer, some technologies get a lot of credit for changing history. Waves of major technological changes tend to point to a single development, but the reality is that sea changes are often made possible because additional, supporting technologies make adoption of a