MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can't reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble.
So far, aerial microrobots have only been able to fly slowly along smooth t SLI and AscendArc agree on 200 million GEO satellite leasing framework
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
Aerospace asset finance firm SLI has signed heads of agreement to acquire two of AscendArc's next-generation Ka-band geostationary satellites, in a transaction valued at more than $200 million. The framework sits within a wider partnership that allows AscendArc to make its GEO spacecraft available on leasing terms instead of requiring customers to fund an outright purchase.
Through SLI's f Funding boost unlocks future space science programme
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:00
In its 50th anniversary year, European Space Agency (ESA) Member States have recommitted to space science. A historic budget increase for the Science Programme of 3.5% per year through to 2028, in addition to inflation, will enable some of the most ambitious missions ever, and bolster European leadership in space science.
Smarter flights for ITA Airways through satellites
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 07:13
Passengers on Italian airline ITA Airways will be able to fly smarter and greener and with less delays thanks to the airline’s recent implementation of the Iris technology, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and global communications company Viasat.
Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 18:07
New report outlines science priorities for human Mars exploration
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How to watch one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids
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Canada picks Telesat and MDA to study Arctic military communications constellation
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 17:13
Canada has contracted satellite operator Telesat and manufacturer MDA Space to explore options for a multibillion-dollar military communications network to support the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic.
Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk
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SCHOTT launches high-performance cover glass for next-generation space solar cells
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 15:21
Webb identifies earliest supernova to date
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 15:00
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the source of a super-bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst, generated by an exploding massive star when the Universe was only 730 million years old. For the first time for such a remote event, the telescope provided a detection of the supernova’s host galaxy. Webb’s quick-turnaround observations verified data taken by telescopes around the world that had been following the gamma-ray burst since it onset, which occurred in mid-March.
TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 14:00
Startup leans on C-band architecture to separate from L-band competitors
LeoLabs lands interagency contract to feed TraCSS and track adversarial spacecraft
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 13:01
LeoLabs has won an interagency contract to provide space-surveillance data for the U.S.
America must stop treating China’s lunar plans as a footrace
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 13:00
It has become conventional wisdom that China’s rise is driven by a coordinated strategy across three fronts here on Earth: dominating critical industries, controlling critical resources and occupying strategically important locations.
The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nearly all life. The study centers on Tersicoccus phoenicis, a microbe detected in high-grade cleanrooms used by NASA and the European Space Agency to prepare spacecraft hardware.
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