NASA’s moment is now: breaking decades of strategic whiplash
Thursday, 07 August 2025 12:00
It’s time for transformational leadership to reclaim America’s space agency’s mission-first legacy and restore the bold, achievement-oriented culture that once inspired the world.
First asteroid sightings push Hera's camera to the limit
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Muon Space to support global Bluetooth constellation with its largest satellite yet
Thursday, 07 August 2025 10:00
Space-based Bluetooth connectivity startup Hubble Network has become the anchor customer for Muon Space’s MuSat XL satellite platform, the smallsat maker’s largest yet at 500 kilograms.
ESA Astronaut Raphaël Liégeois
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:30
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ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA’s 2021 call for new astronauts.
He began his year-long basic astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, in April 2023. This training covered spacecraft systems, spacewalking, flight engineering, robotics, life support systems, survival, and medical training. Raphaël received his astronaut certification alongside fellow astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, and Marco Sieber at EAC on 22 April 2024, officially marking his transition into
Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
Space Systems Command (SSC), the United States Space Force's primary acquisition unit, has awarded a Protected Tactical Satellite Communications - Global (PTS-G) IDIQ contract with five initial firm fixed-price delivery orders totaling $37.5 million. The awards went to Viasat, Northrop Grumman, Astranis, Intelsat General Communications, and Boeing.
The PTS-G program aims to deliver enhance SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
SES Space and Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a five-year, $89.6 million Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract to deliver commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services to the U.S. Army.
The contract will enable long-haul network transport and communications infrastructure for Combat Service Support units, Department of Defense programs, and othe Royal Canadian Navy selects MDA Space for next generation drone surveillance systems
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has secured two major contracts from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) to deliver up to six advanced Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Halifax-class frigates. The agreements support the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) UAS initiative, designed to expand the Navy's maritime threat detection and situational awareness capabilities in C Astronomy tools adapted to monitor greenhouse gases from starlight
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
Astronomers at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Spanish partners, are repurposing astronomical instruments to measure atmospheric greenhouse gases, using starlight instead of sunlight. The initiative leverages a novel algorithm, Astroclimes, developed at Warwick, to analyze how Earth's atmosphere modifies incoming stellar light.
As starlight travels through the Earth's atmo Embry-Riddle Researchers Launch Rockets for a Deeper Look at Ionized Clouds That Disrupt Communications
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
Embry-Riddle researchers recently shot two 46-foot-tall rockets into clouds high in the Earth's atmosphere to learn more about the complex dynamics that affect critical communications and radar operations.
The NASA-sponsored mission, led by Dr. Aroh Barjatya, professor of Engineering Physics, lifted off in late June from the remote Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of Marshall Islands NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade.
A new NASA directive - first reported by Politico and seen by AFP on Tuesday - calls for the appointment of a nuclear power czar to select two commercial proposals within six months, framing the push as crucial to outpacing a joint Chinese-Russian Sidus Space commissions autonomous SpacePilot system and activates LizzieSat-3 ADCS
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has successfully activated its proprietary SpacePilot software on the LizzieSat-3 satellite, enabling advanced autonomous guidance, navigation, and control capabilities. The company also confirmed the commissioning of the satellite's Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS), a critical component in satellite orientation and stability.
These developments m NASA administrator seeks plan to place nuclear reactor on moon
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator and secretary of transportation, wants to fast-track putting a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to a directive he sent out Thursday.
NASA already has plans to put a small nuclear reactor on the moon but this directive would create a timeline despite the agency's heavy budget cut, Politico, The New York Times and The Independent reported. Training robots for planetary missions from Earth orbit
Thursday, 07 August 2025 08:27
This summer, astronauts aboard the International Space Station directed a team of advanced robots through a simulated martian terrain in Germany, concluding the fourth and final session of ESA and DLR's Surface Avatar experiment. The collaborative initiative between the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center aims to develop robotic control techniques for future lunar and martian e