Paris, France (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Less than three weeks after its 13 August launch, the Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite is already transmitting data from two of its six instruments. Early readings from the Microwave Sounder (MWS) and the Radio Occultation Sounder (RO) mark the beginning of a new era in European meteorological and climate monitoring. Metop-SGA1 is the first satellite in the EUMETSAT Polar

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
MSBAI (Microsurgeonbot Inc.) has received a Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract worth $1.2 million to advance its OrbitGuard hybrid-intelligence system for space domain awareness. The Department of Defense CDAO originated the opportunity, with selection by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and execution by the Air Force Digital Transformation Office. The 18-month effort positions OrbitGuard fo

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London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
An international network of gravitational wave observatories has more than doubled the number of known cosmic collisions, detecting 128 new mergers of black holes and neutron stars. The results, published in the updated Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), showcase the expanding reach of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. The detections, gathered between May 2023 and January 2

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Loft Orbital Federal has secured a NASA Flight Opportunities task order to integrate, launch, and operate an on-orbit mission supporting the Fault Tolerant RISC-V Flight Computer with Coprocessor Support, known as RadPC. The award leverages the agency's commercial flight and payload integration pipeline for rapid technology maturation. The work falls under NASA's fourth Flight Opportunitie

Gliwice, Poland (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
KP Labs has shown that satellites can do more than science alone. Engineers from Gliwice successfully ran the 1993 video game Doom aboard the Intuition-1 satellite, using the in-house Leopard Data Processing Unit. The test highlighted the system's ability to execute varied computational tasks in orbit. Launched on November 11, 2023, Intuition-1 has remained fully operational after nearly t

Tokyo Japan (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Infostellar Inc. has expanded its StellarStation cloud platform through a new partnership with NorthBase, a Finnish provider of ground station services. The collaboration, formalized under a Memorandum of Understanding, focuses on joint sales and marketing while enabling reciprocal sharing of ground station infrastructure. StellarStation connects satellite operators to ground stations thro

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Southwest Research Institute has expanded its Laser Induced Particle Impact Test technique to measure ballistic resistance with greater efficiency and scale than previously possible. The updated process enables larger projectiles and automation, dramatically boosting testing throughput while maintaining accuracy in evaluating protective materials. Dr. Daniel Portillo of SwRI's Engineering

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
For the first time, researchers have established a direct correlation between the frequency of spacecraft electrical discharges and the number of electrons in the surrounding space environment. The findings could inform future methods of protecting satellites from potentially damaging effects. Spacecraft environment discharges (SEDs) are short-lived electrical breakdowns that can harm sens