May’s full moon rises as flowers bloom across the northern hemisphere. Continue ReadingMay’s full ‘Flower Moon’ rises tonight: Here’s what to expect from the ‘micromoon’
Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap has secured significant funding for its reusable rocket plans as it works towards a debut launch in 2027. The post Cosmoleap secures $73 million for reusable rocket with tower catch recovery appeared first on SpaceNews.
Morocco signed the Artemis Accords April 29, becoming the third country to do so in the last 10 days. The post Morocco signs the Artemis Accords appeared first on SpaceNews.
The estimated $355 million deal would make All.Space a wholly owned subsidiary of York Space The post York Space to buy satcom terminal manufacturer All.Space appeared first on SpaceNews.
SAN FRANCISCO – Planet is developing a new version of its Tanager spacecraft with enhanced capability to detect and monitor methane and trace-gas emissions. In contrast to the hyperspectral Tanager-1, launched in 2024, the new satellite will “solely target shortwave infrared (SWIR) light” and provide “five times the areas coverage,” Planet said in an April […] The post Planet and Carbon Mapper to fly SWIR Tanager appeared first on SpaceNews.
Right before the historic Artemis 2 mission, retired astronaut and former Navy captain Scott Kelly and India’s Gaganyaan astronauts, speaking in New Delhi, entertained the concept of a “World Space Organization” to guide humanity’s future beyond Earth. Kelly joked that this could be the start to a Starfleet, in reference to Star Trek’s central spacefaring […] The post America needs a space alliance appeared first on SpaceNews.
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on how he’s thinking about AI, how he defines space superiority and what needs to happen to make […] The post CEO Series: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success. appeared first on SpaceNews.
A House appropriations subcommittee advanced a spending bill April 30 that would keep overall NASA funding at 2026 levels, rejecting a 23% cut proposed by the White House. The post House appropriators keep NASA funding flat appeared first on SpaceNews.
While European space startups are attracting more venture capital, their private-led growth rounds remain anchored by U.S. investors rather than regional investment firms. The post U.S. investors dominate Europe’s private-led space scale-up rounds appeared first on SpaceNews.
The Next-Generation OPIR Polar satellite procurement faces ax as Pentagon cites alternatives in low and medium Earth orbit to replace coverage The post Northrop Grumman delivers sensor for missile-warning satellite as Pentagon cancels program appeared first on SpaceNews.
SAN FRANCISCO — SpaceComputer, a Singapore-based startup developing distributed computing infrastructure, is preparing to test its hardware and software in orbit later this year. The startup’s first product, Space Fabric, is a hardware and software architecture with secure and physically isolated computing elements to link ground stations with satellites and enable satellites to share computing […] The post SpaceComputer to conduct on-orbit test of secure computing infrastructure appeared first on SpaceNews.
Experiments will attempt to establish crosslinks from medium Earth orbit satellites The post Space Force taps K2 satellites to test laser communications for missile-defense appeared first on SpaceNews.
One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath one of the fastest subsiding capitals in the world: Mexico City. The findings show how quickly and reliably the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite can track real-time changes across Earth’s surface from orbit, unhindered by clouds or vegetation that impede optical sensors and higher-frequency radars.
You’re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you’re told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you’ll ever take. It features a newly christened electric propulsion engine which was in the late stages of testing during the first three missions. The mission starts and the spacecraft travels at a crawl, and you wonder if it’s broken. A week goes by and you’re now traveling at more than 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) per hour, and your mind is blown as to how fast you’re going, how quickly that happened, and that this mission might be more awesome than you thought.
A century after their discovery, cosmic rays—particles of extreme energy originating from the far reaches of the universe—remain a mystery to scientists. The DAMPE (Dark Matter Particle Explorer) space telescope is tackling this phenomenon, particularly investigating the role that dark matter may play in their formation. This international mission, which includes the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has made a major breakthrough by highlighting a universal feature of these particles. The results are published in the journal Nature.
Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and things apparently went well. Continue ReadingRussia’s new homegrown Soyuz 5 rocket aces debut launch
Artemis 3 slips to late 2027 as Starship and Blue Moon lag, delaying NASA’s lunar return timeline and jeopardizing a 2028 moon landing. Continue ReadingArtemis 3 has been pushed to late 2027. Can NASA still land astronauts on the moon in 2028?
An international team of astrophysicists has just released one of the largest cosmological datasets ever assembled. A mouthwatering 2.5 petabytes of simulated universe, freely available to researchers anywhere in the world. Built using a supercomputer and a suite of simulations called FLAMINGO, the data models how matter has evolved since the Big Bang, tracing everything from individual galaxies to the vast cosmic web that stretches across billions of light years.
Astronomers now believe there is at least one planet for every star in the Milky Way but new research has revealed a deeply unsettling twist in that picture. The most common planets in our Galaxy, it turns out, are almost entirely absent around the most common stars. Using data from NASA’s TESS satellite, researchers found that the small, faint stars that make up the vast majority of the Milky Way seem to host rocky super Earths in abundance, but virtually no sub Neptunes, the planet type previously thought to be plentiful. The finding doesn’t just refine existing theories of planet formation, it rewrites them.
An international research team has achieved an important milestone for astrophysics at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt: In the CRYRING@ESR storage ring, scientists were able to measure nuclear reactions at extremely low energies for the first time, mirroring the conditions inside stars. This novel experimental approach lays the foundation for decoding the formation of elements in the universe with even greater precision in the future.
