Anduril Industries acquires ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space intelligence firm with 400+ commercial telescopes and classified missile defense software, to double its space unit capabilities in satellite tracking, space domain awareness, and missile defense applications for US military operations.
NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbital velocity of asteroid Dimorphos by impacting it in 2022, reducing its 12-hour orbit around its larger companion Didymos by 32 minutes—the first human-caused change to a celestial object's orbit. Follow-up observations using stellar occultations confirmed the impact also changed the asteroids' joint orbit around the sun by approximately 150 milliseconds, with implications for future planetary defense strategies.