Mars dust devils point to planet wide gale force winds
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them routinely surge to 44 m/s, roughly 160 km/h, far exceeding earlier assumptions based on surface measurements.
The study mined European orbiter data from CaSSIS on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbite
Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them routinely surge to 44 m/s, roughly 160 km/h, far exceeding earlier assumptions based on surface measurements.
The study mined European orbiter data from CaSSIS on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbite DLR's ATHEAt Flight Experiment Achieves Hypersonic Milestone Over Norway
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully launched its ATHEAt flight experiment from Andoya, Norway, marking a major advance in reusable space transportation technology. The sounding rocket lifted off on 6 October 2025 at 10:45 local time, flying for approximately four minutes and surpassing Mach 9 for two of those minutes - conditions comparable to atmospheric re-entry.
During th
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully launched its ATHEAt flight experiment from Andoya, Norway, marking a major advance in reusable space transportation technology. The sounding rocket lifted off on 6 October 2025 at 10:45 local time, flying for approximately four minutes and surpassing Mach 9 for two of those minutes - conditions comparable to atmospheric re-entry.
During th Raytheon and Anduril achieve breakthrough test in advanced rocket propulsion
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Anduril Industries have completed a successful static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate. The achievement marks a major step toward expanding U.S. rocket motor production and strengthening the defense industrial base.
With global demand for munitions rising, the test u
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Anduril Industries have completed a successful static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate. The achievement marks a major step toward expanding U.S. rocket motor production and strengthening the defense industrial base.
With global demand for munitions rising, the test u Rocket Lab widens iQPS partnership with three more dedicated Electron launches starting 2026
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Rocket Lab has signed a new multi-launch agreement with Japan's Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), adding three dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning no earlier than 2026 and making Rocket Lab the primary launch provider for the QPS-SAR constellation.
The additional flights lift iQPS's upcoming Electron manifest to seven, on top of four alrea
Rocket Lab has signed a new multi-launch agreement with Japan's Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), adding three dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning no earlier than 2026 and making Rocket Lab the primary launch provider for the QPS-SAR constellation.
The additional flights lift iQPS's upcoming Electron manifest to seven, on top of four alrea Trump jeopardising US role as scientific leader: Nobel officials
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 2, 2025
Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP.
Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen mass layoffs of scientists across federal agencies.
Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP.
Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen mass layoffs of scientists across federal agencies. University of Mississippi Law School launches first fully online Air and Space Law master's degree
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-growing aerospace sector. Created in collaboration with instructional design firm iDesign, the program delivers a comprehensive legal foundation for those working in aviation, commercial space, and emer
The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-growing aerospace sector. Created in collaboration with instructional design firm iDesign, the program delivers a comprehensive legal foundation for those working in aviation, commercial space, and emer Computer models point to crew diversity as key to resilient Mars missions
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One, the study used agent-based modeling to probe how personality mix and team roles shape stress, health, performance, and cohesion over a simulated 500-day mission.
The model linked individual dif
Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One, the study used agent-based modeling to probe how personality mix and team roles shape stress, health, performance, and cohesion over a simulated 500-day mission.
The model linked individual dif Webb reveals carbon rich disc around giant exoplanet
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed measurements of a circumplanetary disc that may serve as a birthplace for moons around a massive exoplanet. The discovery, involving the companion world CT Cha b located 625 light years away, sheds light on how Jupiter's Galilean satellites may have emerged more than four billion years ago.
The international team used Webb's
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed measurements of a circumplanetary disc that may serve as a birthplace for moons around a massive exoplanet. The discovery, involving the companion world CT Cha b located 625 light years away, sheds light on how Jupiter's Galilean satellites may have emerged more than four billion years ago.
The international team used Webb's General purpose AI classifies transient cosmic events from just a few examples
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A study co-led by the University of Oxford, Google Cloud and Radboud University shows a general-purpose large language model, Google's Gemini, can identify real celestial changes and explain its reasoning using only 15 example image triplets and brief instructions, achieving about 93% accuracy across ATLAS, MeerLICHT and Pan-STARRS alerts.
The workflow ingests New, Reference and Difference
A study co-led by the University of Oxford, Google Cloud and Radboud University shows a general-purpose large language model, Google's Gemini, can identify real celestial changes and explain its reasoning using only 15 example image triplets and brief instructions, achieving about 93% accuracy across ATLAS, MeerLICHT and Pan-STARRS alerts.
The workflow ingests New, Reference and Difference Water signature detected in interstellar comet 3I ATLAS
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A fragment of ancient ice and dust from another star system has arrived in our cosmic neighborhood as 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever found. Using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Auburn University physicists detected hydroxyl gas, the ultraviolet by-product of water, confirming active water release from this visitor.
Swift's vantage point above Earth's atmosphere en
A fragment of ancient ice and dust from another star system has arrived in our cosmic neighborhood as 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever found. Using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Auburn University physicists detected hydroxyl gas, the ultraviolet by-product of water, confirming active water release from this visitor.
Swift's vantage point above Earth's atmosphere en Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:00
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final key tests to confirm that it is fit for launch.
Stoke Space raises $510 million
Wednesday, 08 October 2025 22:03
Stoke Space, a company developing a fully reusable launch vehicle, has raised $510 million to fund operations through its first launches, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $1 billion.
Defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic reshape space industry
Wednesday, 08 October 2025 21:10
European rearmament and Trump’s Golden Dome drive surge in investments and valuations, executives say
Blue Origin flies sixth crewed New Shepard flight of 2025
Wednesday, 08 October 2025 19:58
Blue Origin launched its sixth crewed New Shepard flight so far this year Oct.
Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services
Wednesday, 08 October 2025 19:48
The Space Force’s working capital fund will be used to buy satellite communications and other commercial space services with funds from internal Department of War customers