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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Satcube has unveiled upgraded government satellite communication terminals, designed to enhance security and undetectability for mission-critical operations. These latest innovations bring advanced features to the widely used Satcube Ku and Secure terminals, enabling seamless, high-speed broadband connectivity in under a minute. The user-friendly interface remains intuitive, employing the

Life's building blocks in Bennu samples

Friday, 31 January 2025 11:14
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases - building blocks of DNA and RNA - in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner Solar System, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth come from asteroids, the combinat
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered near-Earth object that has a minimal chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first detected on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. Following its discovery, automated astero
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Chinese space companies are rapidly expanding their global satellite services, offering capabilities in communications, navigation, and remote sensing. This expansion is coupled with a swift increase in satellite constellation deployments aimed at enhancing service reach and efficiency. At the start of 2025, China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a leading player in commercial laun
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
SiriusXM and Maxar Space Systems announced today that the SXM-9 satellite has completed its in-orbit testing phase and is now fully operational. This milestone follows the successful launch of the satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on December 5, 2024. "SiriusXM is committed to cutting-edge technology and enhancing the proprietary satellite delivery systems that help power our audio
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights part of the São Francisco River in eastern Brazil. Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights part of the São Francisco River in eastern Brazil.
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The first of the next-generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I, has successfully launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA. This advanced satellite, operated by Hisdesat for the Spanish Armed Forces, will provide Europe's most secure communications capability in UHF, Ka, and X bands. It is scheduled to begin operations in geostationary orbit in the second half of 2025, foll
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space, located in Italy, a significant contract to lead a European consortium tasked with building the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element (LDE), which will be ESA's first-ever lunar lander. Scheduled to begin operations in the early 2030s, the Argonaut lander will serve as Europe's gateway to autonomous and adaptable access to the Moon,
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals allowed the elemental ingredients of life to intermingle and create more complex structures. The discovery suggests that extraterrestrial brines provided a crucial setting for the development of organic
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Carnegie Institution for Science have conducted advanced laboratory experiments to explore the mechanisms that allow Saturn's moon Titan to maintain its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system, is the only one known to possess a significant atmosphere. "While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan ha
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially transforming our understanding of planetary formation and the origins of life. Experts from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences were selected to be amongst the first in the world to ins
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Our planet is constantly bombarded by particles from outer space. While most of us are familiar with the sight of rocky meteorites - those shooting stars that light up the night sky - it's the smaller particles that hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Cosmic rays, which include high-speed subatomic particles like electrons and protons from interstellar space and beyond, are
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu when it was roughly 200 million miles from Earth. Berkeley Lab is one of more than 40 institutions investigating Bennu's chemical makeup to better understand how our solar system and p
Frankfurt, Germamy (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of Utah on September 24, 2023. Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the surface of the 500-metre agglomerate of unconsolidated materia
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Technicians supporting NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission have successfully deployed and tested the spacecraft's solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This key pre-launch milestone ensures the readiness of the arrays, which are essential for powering the spacecraft's systems and scientifi
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