Astranis adds Oman customer to summer GEO launch lineup
Monday, 26 January 2026 15:48
Oman-based industrial conglomerate MB Group has ordered a small geostationary broadband satellite from Astranis that is slated to launch this summer.
Flight engineers give NASA's Dragonfly lift
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New insight into economic outcomes of the US space race
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We need a ‘Planetary Neural Network’ for AI-enabled space infrastructure protection
Monday, 26 January 2026 13:00
ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all
Monday, 26 January 2026 12:27
The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role in regulating the global carbon cycle.
Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor
Monday, 26 January 2026 12:00
Last autumn, the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory hosted three student teams from universities across Europe. After being selected to join the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the students were invited to carry out the experimental part of their research projects in the agency’s test facilities with support and guidance from experts.
Artemis II rollout
Monday, 26 January 2026 09:30
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On 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA's crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years.
At the top of the rocket sits the Orion spacecraft, bearing the ESA and NASA logo and designed to carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme
China prepares offshore test base for reusable liquid rocket launches
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
China is preparing to bring into operation its first offshore platform purpose built for testing, launching and recovering reusable liquid propellant rockets, with the goal of lowering access costs to orbit and expanding commercial launch capacity.
The new facility is located at the Oriental Aerospace Port in Haiyang in east China s Shandong province, currently the country s only dedicated Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bound compartments whose behavior depended mainly on their physical and chemical properties. A new experimental study suggests that subtle differences in membrane composition could have helped these primitive compartments grow, fuse, and hold on to gene Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant star
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stage planetary system evolution. Astronomers obtained the observations with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, which is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Seismic networks offer new way to track space junk reentering atmosphere
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Space debris, the thousands of fragments of human made hardware abandoned in Earth orbit, can threaten people and infrastructure when it falls out of the sky and reaches the ground. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Imperial College London have now shown that existing networks of earthquake detecting seismometers can also detect and track falling space junk in near real time, offering Solar Orbiter spots magnetic avalanches driving major solar flare
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains begin with the motion of a small amount of snow, Solar Orbiter has revealed that a powerful solar flare can start from initially weak magnetic disturbances that rapidly escalate into a large-scale eruption.
During a close approach to the Sun on 30 September 2024, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured one of its most detailed views yet of a larg Sulfur ring molecule in galactic cloud links space chemistry to life
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, working with colleagues at the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, have identified the largest sulfur-bearing molecule yet seen in interstellar space. The compound, 2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-thione (C6H6S), was detected in the molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027 near the center of the Milky Way, about 27,000 light years from Earth. With a Starfighters completes key wind tunnel campaign for STARLAUNCH 1 air launch vehicle
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Starfighters Space Inc has completed a dedicated wind tunnel campaign for its STARLAUNCH 1 air launched rocket, marking a key technical milestone in the development of the sub orbital vehicle. The program focused on validating how the rocket separates from the companys supersonic aircraft platform under a range of flight conditions.
The test series examined STARLAUNCH 1 separation behavior