Paris, France (SPX) Nov 06, 2025
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite was successfully launched on November 4, 2025, at 22:02 CET from French Guiana using an Ariane 62 rocket. Sentinel-1D joins the Copernicus programme, providing essential data for environmental monitoring, infrastructure assessment, and disaster response. The Sentinel-1 mission now features two identical satellites in orbit, imaging Earth's surface every

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2025
Researchers at the University of Western Australia, along with colleagues from the University of Bristol, the Geological Survey of Western Australia, and Curtin University, examined feldspar crystals from anorthosite rocks found in the Murchison region of Western Australia. These rocks, dated at 3.7 billion years old, are confirmed to be the oldest on the Australian continent and among the earli

Hamilton, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 06, 2025
As satellite technology surges ahead and space becomes increasingly accessible to private and state actors alike, the new and unsettling threat of space terrorism looms above Earth's atmosphere. Once the domain of science fiction, the idea of terrorist activity in outer space is now a growing concern among experts. The democratisation of space has not only opened the door to innovati

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured a multi-year contract worth over 30 million dollars to integrate its Gen-3 high-cadence tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services into the secure operational environment of a strategic international defense customer. The program aims to boost sovereign space-based intelligence capacities by leveraging BlackSky's commercial t

Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions.

Image: Ahead of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November, this IRIDE image shows the Branco River and its surrounding forests in the Brazilian state of Roraima.

Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 7, 2025
Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can't see these electrons, electric currents moving through a conductor flow like water through a pipe to produce electricity. Certain materials, however, allow that electron flow to "freeze" into crystallized shapes, triggering a transition in the stat

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has observed for the first time the multiple freezing-melting process of water at room temperature under ultrahigh pressures exceeding 2 gigapascals and on a microsecond timescale. This has resulted in the discovery of a previously unknown crystallization pathway and the identification of a new ice phase named Ice XXI. Ice gener

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
The Austrian Space Agency and the European Space Agency have extended the mission for the PRETTY CubeSat, which will continue under the OPS-SAT Space Lab with management transferred to Graz University of Technology. PRETTY, developed jointly by TU Graz, Beyond Gravity Austria, and Seibersdorf Laboratories, has orbited for over two years in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude just

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
A group of undergraduate students from the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University have collaboratively designed and built a CubeSat called 3UCubed, now scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, no earlier than November 10, 2025. The small satellite mission is linked to NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Accelerat