The UK has taken a significant step forward in protecting its critical space assets, with the Ministry of Defence confirming that Borealis – a new space domain awareness software system – is now fully operational, delivered six months ahead of schedule. The announcement also included the first public release of imagery captured by the Noctis-1 military space telescope, showing objects including the International Space Station and the UK’s SKYNET military communications satellites in Earth’s orbit. What Borealis Does Borealis rapidly compiles, fuses and analyses data from multiple sources to give the National Space Operations Centre a faster and more accurate…
