Lockheed Martin launches ‘AI Fight Club’ to test algorithms for warfare
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 18:36
The company aims to create a digital proving ground for AI systems across air, land, sea, and space operations.
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Reusable Chinese rocket soft-lands in the ocean in a new test
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Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 13:50
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.
Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.
How NASA advisory committees are navigating a new political landscape
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 13:00
Since the start of the second Trump administration, NASA’s formal advisory committees have largely been suspended.
ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 10:59
On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic gesture elevated Johann Strauss II’s famous waltz, often considered the unofficial ‘anthem of space’, to its rightful place among the stars.
Second ispace mission ready for lunar landing attempt
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 10:34
Japanese company ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon this week as the company looks ahead to larger, more ambitious lunar landers.
Space pebbles and rocks play pivotal role in giant planet's formation
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Scientists analysing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, whilst being bombarded with large rocky objects.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to explore the atmosphere of WASP-121b, researchers successfully detected water (H2O), carbon monoxide (CO), and silicon monoxide (SiO) in the side f New Venus observation mission - World's first long-term planetary cubesat study by Korea's Institute for Basic Science and NanoAvionics
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), a leading small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has been selected by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea to build the first CubeSat for the world's first long-term planetary science campaign which will use a series of CubeSats to monitor Venus from low Earth orbit.
This long-term Venus observation initiative, the CL Impulse Space Secures $300 Million Series C to Accelerate the Future of In-Space Mobility
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Impulse Space reports it has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round-one of the largest venture rounds in the history of the space industry. The round, led by Linse Capital, brings Impulse's total capital raised to $525 million.
The pre-emptive raise is both a positive signal about Impulse's business trajectory and a direct response to surging customer demand. With over 30 signed c Voyager Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Voyager Technologies, Inc. (Voyager) reports it has commenced the roadshow for its proposed underwritten initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, the underwriters of the offering will have a 30-day option to purchase from Voyager up to 1,650,000 additional shares of its Class A common stock at the initial public offering price, less underwriting disc iRocket and Wilbur Ross-backed BPGC Acquisition eye iRocket listing on Nasdaq
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. ("iRocket"), a reusable space rocket developer, and BPGC Acquisition Corp. ("BPGC"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by The Hon. Wilbur Ross, the 39th U.S. Secretary of Commerce with more than 55 years of private equity and investment banking experience, and BPGC Management LP, an independent private equity firm dedicated to opportunistic buyou Rocket Lab Schedules Third Electron Launch in 24 Days to Deploy Next Mission for iQPS
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
Rocket Lab has announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company.
The mission, named 'The Mountain God Guards,' will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on June 10, 2025 UTC. The mission will launch a single synthetic apertur SwRI-led research finds particles energized by magnetic reconnection in the nascent solar wind
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 09:48
New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful phenomena as the spacecraft dipped in and out of the solar corona.
These new results offer fresh perspectives on how magnetic reconnection could heat the