Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
As commercial spaceflight moves closer to routine operations and missions extend in duration, a new expert report argues that reproductive health in space has shifted from a theoretical concern to an urgently practical issue. The authors warn that space is an environment fundamentally hostile to human biology, yet human activity beyond Earth is rapidly expanding without matching standards for ma

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Muon Space is entering a new phase of operational scale as it moves from discrete missions to sustained, multi-mission satellite constellation deployment for government and commercial customers. The Mountain View based company reports that its growing mission portfolio, expanding launch manifest and increasing demand for end-to-end, mission-optimized systems are driving this transition. In

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during t

Amherst MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy - 100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of p

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
For more than half a century, planetary scientists relied on a handful of spacecraft flybys to pin down Jupiter's size and shape. Now, an international team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has used a trove of new radio data from NASA's Juno mission to redraw the gas giant with unprecedented precision. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, replaces six measurements from NASA's

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Voyager Technologies has launched a strategic lunar initiative designed to align with the White House Securing American Space Superiority executive order and to reinforce United States leadership beyond low Earth orbit. The initiative is framed as a long-term effort to support exploration, national security and commercial activity on and around the Moon by focusing on durable infrastructure rath

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has produced a design for a specialised calibration chamber that will allow cone penetration instruments to be tested under lunar conditions, providing the g

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
ExLabs has selected CUS-GNC's SpacePilot onboard autonomy software to provide guidance, navigation, and control for its planned Mission to Asteroid Apophis, a commercial deep-space campaign that will operate at distances exceeding 100 million kilometers from Earth. The company describes itself as a commercial deep-space mission operator developing next-generation platforms for exploration beyond

ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a journey across the southern highlands of Mars, including a flight around Flaugergues Crater.