Portal Space Systems to build larger factory for Supernova vehicle
Thursday, 19 June 2025 14:18
Portal Space Systems will create a second factory to scale up production of high-performance in-space vehicles as it gears up for initial test flights in 2026.
NASA to gather in-flight imagery of commercial test capsule re-entry
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Researchers take one small step toward planning life on Mars
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The ultimate backup drive: the moon
Thursday, 19 June 2025 13:37
In this week's episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr.
SpaceX retargets crewed Axiom Space launch
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Another tether deorbiting test mission takes shape
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BlackSky plans new satellite network for large-scale AI-driven Earth observation
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has announced a major expansion of its satellite constellation with the addition of a new class of multispectral, wide-area imaging satellites. The forthcoming system, known as AROS, will complement the company's existing Gen-3 constellation by enabling rapid digital mapping, navigation, maritime surveillance, and 3D digital twin applications at scale. Fish biofluorescence evolved independently over 100 times in evolutionary history
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
New research from the American Museum of Natural History has uncovered that fish biofluorescence-a phenomenon where organisms absorb light and emit it as a different color-has independently evolved over 100 times in the past 112 million years. This widespread trait is especially prevalent among species inhabiting coral reefs.
Published in Nature Communications and PLOS One, the studies rev Meteosat-12 begins prime service delivering enhanced weather data for Europe
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
A new era in European meteorological observation has officially begun with Meteosat-12 assuming the role of primary geostationary satellite, replacing Meteosat-10. Operated by EUMETSAT, Meteosat-12-previously known as Meteosat Third Generation Imager 1 (MTG-I1)-now delivers the principal near-real-time satellite data service from its orbital position directly above the Gulf of Guinea at 0 longi Satellite expands Chinas disaster warning network through global electromagnetic monitoring
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
China has launched a new satellite designed to improve the country's early warning capabilities for natural disasters by monitoring Earth's electromagnetic environment. Developed in partnership with Italy, the satellite lifted off Saturday aboard a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.
The spacecraft, Zhangheng 1B, entered its designated orbit as SpaceX's Starship explodes in pre-flight test
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
A SpaceX heavy-lift Starship launch vehicle exploded late Wednesday during a pre-flight test at Starbase in Texas.
The two-stage rocket exploded at about 11 p.m. CT Wednesday as it was preparing for its 10th flight, SpaceX said in a statement on X. Both X and SpaceX are owned by Elon Musk.
The Texas-based company said the Starship had "experienced a major anomaly."
"A safe Space lasers, AI used by geospatial scientist to measure forest biomass
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
Satellite data used by archaeologists to find traces of ancient ruins hidden under dense forest canopies can also be used to improve the speed and accuracy to measure how much carbon is retained and released in forests.
Understanding this carbon cycle is key to climate change research, according to Hamdi Zurqani, an assistant professor of geospatial science for the Arkansas Forest Resource Honda hails successful test of reusable rocket
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
Japan's second-biggest carmaker Honda has successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket, the company said, as it seeks to expand into the space sector.
Honda, which hopes to develop the tech prowess for a suborbital launch by 2029, conducted a test flight of its rocket on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
"The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a r India grants licence to Musk's Starlink
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
New Delhi had granted a licence to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service, opening India's "next frontier of connectivity", according to the country's communications minister.
The launch of Starlink, which provides high-speed internet access to remote locations using low Earth orbit satellites, has sparked fierce debate in India over issues ranging from predatory pricing to spectrum Queer astronaut documentary takes on new meaning in Trump's US
Thursday, 19 June 2025 10:47
When director Cristina Costantini started making a documentary about the first US woman in space, she thought it would be looking back on the "sexism and homophobia of yesteryear".
But the story of astronaut Sally Ride, whose queer identity was a secret when she blasted off more than four decades ago, took on a "completely different meaning" after the re-election of President Donald Trump, C