Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
During the World Space Business Week (WSBW), U.S. aerospace company Sceye announced the successful close of its Series C funding round. The round was led by Mawarid Holding Company ("Mawarid"), a leading Saudi entity in information technology, satellite services, and digital solutions. This latest funding round places Sceye's pre-money valuation at $525 million. The capital will be directe

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
As two crews prepare to conclude their missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS), science operations and station maintenance continue in full swing. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are set to return to Earth next week. Their departure is scheduled for Sept. 23 at 4:37 a.m. EDT, when they will undock the Soyuz MS-25 spacecra

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
NASA, acting on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. from Littleton, Colorado, to design and build a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. The contract, valued at approximately $297.1 million, covers the development of two flight instruments, with options fo

Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
Researchers from Monash University's School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment have uncovered evidence suggesting that Earth may have once had a ring system around it, dating back 466 million years. This surprising discovery comes from an analysis of asteroid impact craters and points to the existence of a debris ring during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician imp

National Harbor, MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
Though the Space Force is not yet 5-years-old, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, told a large audience of Guardians and Airmen Sept. 17 that the nation's youngest military service must continue evolving, adapting and innovating. "What we were is not what we must become, and so our only choice is to transform ourselves to thrive in this new environment, optimized for Great Pow

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
A team of international astronomers, including members from the University of Geneva, NCCR PlanetS, and the Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), has discovered the "Neptunian Ridge," a newly recognized feature in the distribution of exoplanets. This finding offers fresh insights into the Neptunian Desert, a region largely devoid of hot Neptune-like planets, and the Neptunian Savanna, where such planet

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has snapped a souvenir of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert in Nevada.

The European Galileo satellite navigation system keeps growing: a new pair of satellites has joined the constellation after a journey on a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 18 September at 00:50 CEST (17 September 18:50 local time).

XRISM revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. Astronomers presented the first scientific results of the new X-ray telescope today, less than a year after the telescope’s launch.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
UTHealth Houston has partnered with The Ocean Corporation to expand its Space Medicine Training Fellowship program. This collaboration introduces an intensive two-week training that focuses on hyperbaric technologies and analog environments similar to those encountered by astronauts during space walks, also known as extravehicular activities (EVAs). The enhanced curriculum aims to provide