Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection system to help satellites and spacecraft identify and characterize debris impacts. The technology ensures operators are aware of collisions even when damage is not immediately visible. Earth's orbital environment is increasingly congested due to exploding satellites, anti-satelli

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Nullspace, a deep tech company creating next-generation electromagnetic simulation software, has raised $2.5 million in seed financing. The round was led by Fathom Fund with participation from Golden Seeds LLC and several strategic angel investors. The capital will support expansion of the engineering team, faster product development, and commercial scaling across aerospace, defense, quantum com

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Voyager Technologies has announced an investment in Latent AI, a specialist in edge-based artificial intelligence that enables data to be processed and acted upon in real time. The collaboration will bring advanced AI processing to orbit and other contested environments where connectivity is limited. "AI is transforming the edge from a passive collector to an active combat multiplier," sta

London, UK (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Global Skyware, a unit of Global Invacom Group, has introduced the XY antenna, a field-ready platform engineered for rapid response operations. The system emphasizes modularity, flexibility and fast assembly, supporting both on-the-move and on-the-pause scenarios where dependable connectivity is essential. The XY delivers multi-orbit support across Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), Low Eart

Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Supernovae appear to our eyes-and to astronomical instruments-as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places where nothing was visible just moments before. The flash is caused by the colossal explosion of a star. Because supernovae are sudden and unpredictable, they have long been difficult to study, but today, thanks to extensive, continuous, high-cadence sky surveys,

Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Supernovae are sudden stellar explosions that flare brightly in the sky, making them difficult to capture in their earliest moments. With modern wide-field, high-cadence sky surveys, astronomers can now spot these events almost daily, but protocols are needed to secure immediate follow-up data. A pilot study led by Lluis Galbany of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Barcelona te

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A University of Queensland researcher has developed a mathematical framework that incorporates collapsing regions of matter and expanding cosmic voids to explain the universe's evolution in greater detail than the standard model allows. Dr Leonardo Giani and colleagues used data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which measures the structure of the universe across distan

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2025
NASA scientists at the Southwest Research Institute discovered a 29th moon orbiting Uranus while using infrared detection through the James Webb Space Telescope. The discovery was made on Feb. 2, but NASA officials did not announce the discovery until Tuesday in a news release. "This object was spotted in a series of 10 40-minute long-exposure images captured by the Near-Infrared

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A Southwest Research Institute study of near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu provides compelling evidence that both objects originated from the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The team compared Polana spectroscopy data with spacecraft and laboratory results from Ryugu and Bennu, revealing strong similarities in their near-infrared spectra that

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Precise orbit determination is becoming increasingly critical for satellite navigation, positioning and timing as Low Earth Orbit constellations expand worldwide. Researchers have introduced a new method that combines inter-satellite link data with onboard BeiDou-3 observations to simultaneously resolve LEO and BeiDou-3 Medium Earth Orbit satellite orbits with unprecedented accuracy. The a