Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
LandSpace, a private Beijing-based rocket manufacturer, is moving toward the debut flight of its ZQ 3, also known as Rosefinch 3, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert. The company is aiming to recover the rocket's first-stage booster after launch. The ZQ 3 is a substantial reusable rocket, measuring 66.1 meters in height and 4.5 meters in diameter, wit

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
An international team of astronomers, led by Tom Bakx from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has identified a galaxy forming stars at a pace 180 times faster than the Milky Way, using the ALMA telescope to precisely measure the object's temperature. Known as Y1, the galaxy is so distant its light has traveled for over 13 billion years to reach Earth. The team detected the presen

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
Researchers have developed a satellite constellation approach designed for exploration around Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The framework, known as the 2D Necklace Flower Constellation, prioritizes stable orbital configurations by integrating frozen orbits and repeating ground tracks. This model supports continuous observation and reduces the frequency of maintenance for multi-satellite missions

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
The China Manned Space Agency has initiated emergency plans to bring home the Shenzhou XX crew after a space debris impact prompted a delay in their scheduled return. Mission planners and engineers prioritized crew safety and carried out comprehensive simulations, hardware checks, and risk assessments for the Shenzhou XX spacecraft. Teams at the Dongfeng Landing Site conducted intensive dr

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
The coding framework uses modular concepts and simple synchronization rules to make software clearer, safer, and easier for LLMs to generate. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are charting a more "modular" path ahead. Their new approach breaks systems into "concepts," separate pieces of a system, each designed to do one job well, and "sync

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
The European Service Module-4 for NASA's Orion spacecraft has completed integration at Airbus facilities in Bremen, Germany. The module will soon ship to Kennedy Space Center for assembly and testing alongside Orion's Crew Module, progressing preparation for NASA's Artemis program return to lunar crewed flight. Thales Alenia Space provides major subsystems for all six European Service Modu

Boston, MA (SPX) Nov 10, 2025
Northeastern professor Jeffery Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial gravity space habitats for astronauts. From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number of health risks while in space. It's easy to understand why. The human body relies on Earth's gravity to work out muscles and s

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The year 2025 marked three decades of satellite navigation in Europe. To celebrate this milestone, on 2 September, the European Space Agency (ESA) opened the doors of ESTEC, its research and technology centre. Partners from across the continent joined a sensational event that took the audience on a journey through time, honouring the achievements and collaboration that have shaped the success story of the systems we rely on today: Galileo and EGNOS. 

Travelling up from Mars’s equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked by deep valleys, speckled craters, and signs of an ancient ice age.