Air travellers will shrink their carbon footprint while reducing flight delays worldwide, thanks to a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA), satellite operator Viasat and aerospace company Boeing. Flights to test the space-based technology with new aviation standards from and to the USA and Europe took place in late October and early November.

The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth’s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth’s magnetic field, but with its ‘star tracker’ positioning instruments – a first for the Swarm mission.

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London, UK (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
CAS Space has carried out the 11th launch of its Kinetica 1 solid-fuel carrier rocket, orbiting nine satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. The rocket lifted off at 12:03 pm local time and delivered all payloads into their planned orbits. The manifest included six Chinese multifunctional satellites, along with one satellite each for the Unit

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
The 2025 International Symposium on the Peaceful Use of Space Technology - Health (IPSPACE 2025) opened Tuesday in Boao, a coastal town in China's Hainan province, with a focus on expanding cooperation in space activities and applying space-based capabilities to the health sector. Organizers brought together about 50 experts and astronauts from China and other countries for the three-day

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) has achieved three orbital launches with Long March rockets in a single day, setting a new mark for the country's spaceflight cadence. The first mission lifted off at 6:11 am from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, where a Long March 6A deployed a batch of internet satellites into orbit. Built by the China Academ

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Qingzhou, or light vessel, China's new-generation cargo spacecraft, has achieved breakthroughs in multiple key technologies and is scheduled to make its maiden flight next year, according to its developer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Innovation Academy for Microsatellites. Designed with a focus on low cost, high reliability, high adaptability and high intelligence, the compact spacecr

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Overview Energy has revealed an airborne power-beaming demonstration that transmitted energy from a moving aircraft to a ground receiver 5 kilometers below, marking its second major step toward delivering grid-scale solar power from space. The test used the same optics and laser chain planned for space operations and showed that the system can send power via near-infrared light from an air