Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 20, 2025
How do you solve Europe's lagging economic growth and reverse its industrial decline? That is the challenge the EU faces as the bloc comes under fierce pressure from US President Donald Trump's tariffs and a rising China. Europe's answer to bring its economy back to life is a battery of measures to be announced next week including boosting its clean tech sector and supporting energy-intensiv

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has secured a six-figure contract with a new strategic international client to provide subscription-based on-demand Gen-2 imagery and analytics services. As part of the agreement, BlackSky will also deliver comprehensive analyst training on its AI-driven BlackSky Spectra multi-intelligence tasking and analytics platform. The training will focus on the applic

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2025
Kapta Space a Seattle-based space technology firm has emerged from stealth mode with a fresh 5 million seed round to drive the development of its breakthrough radar imaging system. The funding round was led by MetaVC Partners and joined by Entrada Ventures and Blue Collective and will support rapid on-orbit demonstrations. Established in 2023 by Milton Perque formerly of Echodyne and Adam

Los Angeles CA (AFNS) Feb 24, 2025
In anticipation of what some in the defense industry are calling a "tidal wave" of new foreign military sales cases, Space Systems Command hosted a first-ever Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Enterprise Kick-Off conference Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. "Today, SSC is taking another step towards our vision for an FMS enterprise that successfully executes space FMS cases and effectively delivers cap

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2025
Just one year after signing a ground-breaking trilateral agreement, the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability partnership is completing facilities construction at the first of three sites that will host a global network of advanced ground-based sensors. DARC is a partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, designed to create an all-weather, global system to tra

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2025
Herders in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region may soon have access to a unique variety of forage, as researchers are set to cultivate grass seeds that have undergone a journey to the moon. These seeds, having endured deep-space exposure, are expected to undergo genetic mutations that could yield superior plant varieties. Carried aboard China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe, which embarked on its mis

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2025
A research collaboration between the University of Bern and the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene in Algeria has yielded significant progress in astrobiology. Their recent study demonstrates the successful detection of fossil microorganisms in Messinian gypsum deposits in Algeria using the Bernese Laser Ionization Mass Spectrometer (LIMS). The findings suggest that LIMS coul

Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2025
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket on Friday, following a dramatic mid-air explosion over the Caribbean during its last trial. A launch window from the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, opens at 5:30 PM (2330 GMT), pending regulatory approval. It will mark the eighth test flight of Starship, the largest and most powerful ro

The latest analysis from the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Defence Office has reduced the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 to 0.001%.

The Red Planet’s iconic rusty dust has a much wetter history than previously assumed, find scientists combining European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft data with new laboratory experiments on replica Mars dust. The results suggest that Mars rusted early in the planet’s ancient past, when liquid water was more widespread.