From ESA lab to a historic drone race win
Tuesday, 08 July 2025 06:15
An autonomous drone has beaten human drone racing champions in an international competition for the first time. A team of scientists from Delft University of Technology has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi – and the AI taking their drone to victory got off to a flying start in the lab of the European Space Agency’s Advanced Concepts Team just a few years prior.
ESA selects five companies for next phase of launcher competition
Tuesday, 08 July 2025 01:36
The European Space Agency has selected five launch vehicle startups to proceed to the next phase of a competition where they could receive contracts for satellite launches and upgraded vehicles.
Bearings Used in Space Technologies: Engineering for the Final Frontier
Tuesday, 08 July 2025 01:06
One of the many critical systems that make satellite operations, space research, space observatories, space explorations, and space missions possible is space technology, where the need for space-qualified bearings is pivotal.
These mission-critical space-grade bearings are configured to overcome the challenges of space and ensure the success and longevity of high-value missions, on which How to use fusion to get to Proxima Centauri's potentially habitable exoplanet
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Cooperation and consolidation: reshaping Europe’s space industry to last
Monday, 07 July 2025 17:24
Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission
Monday, 07 July 2025 15:31
Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to launch a radioisotope-powered spacecraft to orbit Neptune and study its enigmatic moon Triton.
Space Force command shifts on the Space Coast
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Bioplastic habitats could sustain algae growth for space colonization
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
In a step toward sustainable extraterrestrial living, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated that green algae can thrive in bioplastic shelters under Mars-like conditions. The findings point to a future in which space habitats can grow-and even regenerate-using biological materials.
The team, led by Robin Wordsworth, P Boeing expands SES O3b mPOWER fleet with latest satellite delivery
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
Boeing has delivered the ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites to SES, bolstering the satellite operator's growing medium Earth orbit (MEO) constellation. The two newly completed spacecraft are equipped with Boeing's fully software-defined payloads, enabling dynamic power allocation to meet real-time user demands. Both satellites are en route to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a scheduled su China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
China will inaugurate the International Deep Space Exploration Association (IDSEA) next Monday, marking its first international academic body dedicated to aerospace. Based in Hefei, Anhui province, the association is designed to foster global collaboration, with an emphasis on empowering developing countries to access and advance deep-space technologies.
The IDSEA, co-founded by the Hefei- Competing wave patterns may unlock turbulent secrets in hypersonic vehicle design
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
Recent progress in hypersonic aerodynamics has shed light on one of the field's longest-standing puzzles: the unpredictable transition from smooth to turbulent airflow around blunt-nosed vehicles. This transition dramatically increases drag and thermal load, posing a major challenge to hypersonic flight systems.
Traditionally, researchers attributed this boundary layer transition to modal Europe launches first geostationary atmospheric sounder to boost extreme weather forecasts
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
Europe has advanced its ability to track extreme weather with the launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1), the continent's first geostationary meteorological sounder. The satellite will deliver critical atmospheric data that supports earlier and more accurate weather alerts, helping to safeguard people, infrastructure, and economies.
MTG-S1 lifted off on 1 July 2025 and Heat sink technology put to the test aboard Australian satellite mission
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
A research team led by mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is testing advanced cooling systems in space to improve heat sink performance for satellite electronics.
Space presents a unique challenge for electronics: high waste heat output with no atmosphere for convective cooling. To counteract this, the team embedded a w Mars lost habitability due to its own climate self-limiting cycle
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
Mars may once have flowed with rivers and lakes, but a new study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite suggests its warm periods were fleeting and ultimately doomed by a self-regulating climate system. Published July 2 in Nature, the research presents a model in which increasing solar brightness briefly allowed water to flow before triggering a geochemical response that loc NASA shares SPHEREx sky survey data weekly to enable global cosmic research
Monday, 07 July 2025 11:57
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, launched in March, has begun publicly releasing data from its infrared sky survey, offering scientists worldwide weekly access to its extensive cosmic observations. The mission is designed to map the entire sky twice a year over a two-year period, capturing images in 102 infrared wavelengths to support investigations ranging from the origins of the universe to the