Two decades of Mars images reveal fast moving dust devils and stronger winds
Friday, 10 October 2025 01:10
Combing 20 years of Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imagery, ESA-led researchers cataloged 1,039 dust devils to show how surface winds loft and transport dust across Mars. Published in Science Advances, the work indicates peak near-surface winds are much faster than previously thought and refines models of Martian weather and climate.
The open catalogue, available is online, agg Former U.S. defense officials urge Pentagon to scale up hypersonic weapons to match China, Russia
Thursday, 09 October 2025 22:12
The recommendation comes in a new report by the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Momentus wins two NASA contracts to fly tech demo payloads
Thursday, 09 October 2025 19:47
Momentus announced Oct. 9 two new contracts with NASA to carry payloads to test in-space manufacturing and an advanced propulsion system on its Vigoride spacecraft.
SpaceX targets nighttime launch of competitor Amazon's satellites
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Eyes in the sky: Making Earth observation data work for people
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Lockheed Martin adapting to a faster space race
Thursday, 09 October 2025 11:09
In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss speaks with Robert Lightfoot, president, space at Lockheed Martin and former NASA associate administrator.
Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission
Thursday, 09 October 2025 08:15
The European Space Agency’s upcoming FORUM mission is set to provide unique insights into Earth’s radiation budget, filling in a missing piece in the climate puzzle. The mission’s spectrometer will be the first space-based instrument to measure Earth’s outgoing radiation in the far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. New technologies were needed to make this possible – among these an on-ground calibration device developed by the National Metrology Institute of Germany PTB within a recent activity funded by ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. This device is used
AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Partner to Deliver Space-Based Cellular Service Across the U.S.
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by standard smartphones, has signed a definitive commercial agreement with Verizon (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) to deliver direct-to-cellular service for Verizon customers beginning in 2026. The partnership aims to extend Verizon's award-winning network with space-based Space Ocean and Space Nukes Forge Alliance to Develop Deep Space Power Systems
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Space Ocean Corp, a leader in orbital logistics and in-space resource delivery, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Space Nuclear Power Corporation (Space Nukes) to explore the integration of advanced nuclear reactor technology into future deep-space missions.
The collaboration centers on testing Space Nukes' 10-kilowatt nuclear reactor aboard Space Ocean's ALV-N satellite. Upon meeti Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later.
The European Space Agency said Monday that a 3- to 10-foot-wide asteroid was picked up by radar last Wednesday some 265 miles above Earth over Antarctica, near Earth's most southern point, at an altitude similar to that of the Blue Origin launches 15th space flight for tourists
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
Space tourism company Blue Origin launched six people in Texas on its 15th mission in the growing orbital tourism industry.
Blue Origin's mission NS-36, space flight saw liftoff at 8:40 a.m. CDT via its launch site in west Texas after a 9:30 a.m. launch window opened for its suborbital journey in the 36th flight for its reusable rocket-capsule New Shepard.
"Hugs all around," an a Mars dust devils point to planet wide gale force winds
Thursday, 09 October 2025 07:48
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
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
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