Washington DC (UPI) May 5, 2025
Stratolaunch successfully tested for the second time a fully recoverable uncrewed hypersonic vehicle for the Department of Defense in March, the private contractor and federal agency said Monday. Stratolaunch, based in the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada, first tested one in December. Reusable hypersonic flights are the first since the manned X-15 program was scrapped in 1

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 07, 2025
ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global leader in lunar exploration, has announced the successful entry of its RESILIENCE lunar lander into lunar orbit. This critical milestone, known as Success 7 of the Mission 2 "SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon" initiative, occurred on May 7, 2025, at 5:41 a.m. JST (May 6, 2025, 20:41 UTC). The maneuver was executed from ispace's Mission Control Cente

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2025
Reveal Technology and Maxar have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Maxar's high-resolution satellite imagery and 3D data directly into the Farsight platform, enhancing real-time situational awareness for defense users operating at the tactical edge. This collaboration aims to provide defense personnel with enhanced operational decision-making capabilities by incorporating Maxa

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has successfully concluded the commissioning of its first Gen-3 satellite, achieving this milestone a full month ahead of schedule. The initial satellite is delivering exceptional tasking-to-delivery performance, backed by strong customer feedback on its early 35-centimeter very high-resolution imagery and AI-driven analytics. "BlackSky has demonstrate

Washington DC (UPI) May 7, 2025
NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a water-seeking robot on the lunar surface. VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover, is supposed to study the extreme environment of the moon's south in search of ice and other potential resources. On Wednesday, NASA announced it can

Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers believed that this process of ‘ice piracy’ in Antarctica took hundreds or even thousands of years, but these latest findings clearly demonstrate that this isn’t always the case.

The activities to assemble the European Space Agency’s Plato mission are progressing well now that 24 of the spacecraft’s 26 cameras have been installed. Once in space, Plato will use its many eyes to survey a very large area of the sky and hunt for terrestrial planets. The spacecraft’s supporting element is also coming together in parallel.

For the first time, two spacecraft in orbit were aligned in formation with millimetre precision and maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ground.

Fresh from the cleanroom in Bremen, Germany, the second of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission have arrived at Cape Canaveral harbour, in the US.

As the European Space Agency (ESA) ramps up Europe’s ambition in space exploration, it is equally committed to sparking curiosity among young minds. What better way to inspire future explorers than with a fully equipped lunar rover – a creation born from our exciting new partnership with PLAYMOBIL?