SpaceX squeezes in 100th Space Coast launch, but weather delays ULA, 2nd SpaceX mission
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How the Space Force trains Guardians for the future of warfare
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 14:01
First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 13:00
Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue to strengthen the long-term reference record of sea levels, a key parameter of climate change.
Trump’s national security strategy ignores space
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 13:00
The Trump administration’s new national security strategy has rightly drawn criticism for presuming to tell our European allies how to arrange their domestic affairs.
Vantor partners with Niantic Spatial on GPS-free navigation for defense market
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 12:30
Firms aim to link air and ground platforms using visual positioning technology
EraDrive raises $5.3 million for software-hardware kits to enhance satellite autonomy
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 12:00
SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford University spinoff developing software and hardware for satellite autonomy, raised $5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round, the startup announced Dec.
SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 11:06
A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit.
China launches experimental cargo spacecraft, opaque tech demo mission and remote sensing satellite
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:17
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life's building blocks, including all five nucleobases used in DNA and RNA, 14 of the 20 amino acids found in proteins, and a rich collection of other organic molecules GoMars model simulates Martian dust storms to improve mission safety
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
Researchers in China have used a Mars general circulation model to simulate 50 years of Martian dust activity, aiming to improve forecasts of global dust storms that can disrupt exploration missions.
Mars is dominated by a dry, dusty desert landscape where winds and rotating columns of air lift fine particles into the atmosphere and later return them to the surface. The resulting dust cycl Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
Gemini North has obtained new color images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar object emerged from behind the Sun on its outbound trajectory from the Solar System. Using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope at Maunakea in Hawaii, scientists observed the comet on 26 November 2025 to study how it has evolved since perihelion.
The observations were co Southern Launch to host INNOSPACE missions from South Australian spaceports
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
Southern Launch has signed a contract with South Korean launch service provider INNOSPACE to conduct space missions from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex and the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia.
The agreement allows INNOSPACE to undertake a range of missions from Southern Launch sites, including orbital satellite launches and suborbital technology demonstration flights. Rocket Lab completes first dedicated JAXA mission with Electron launch
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
Rocket Lab Corporation has carried out its first dedicated launch for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), advancing the role of the Electron small launch vehicle in Japan's satellite technology demonstration program. The mission marks a new step in collaboration between Rocket Lab and JAXA in support of Japan's growing space activities.
The flight, named RAISE And Shine, lifted Autonomous DARPA project to expand satellite surveillance network by BAE Systems
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:07
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' FAST Labs research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract under the Oversight program, which is developing an autonomous space-based system to maintain continuous custody of many terrestrial assets using new satellite constellations.
The Phase 2 award follows completion of MAVEN telemetry shows changes to spacecraft orbit and rotation
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 10:00
New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch.