London (AFP) July 10, 2025
Britain will invest 163 million euros ($191 million) in European satellite firm Eutelsat, a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink, the Elysee Palace said Thursday during President Emmanuel Macron's UK state visit. Eutelsat, which counts the French state as a major investor, is the world's second-largest operator of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, which enable internet and phone services. "Jus

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2025
A research team at Beihang University has unveiled a new artificial intelligence-based method that can quickly generate conceptual aircraft designs-potentially transforming how early-stage design is done in aerospace engineering. By using large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini, the team created a prototype system that delivers viable design solutions with little to no prior training ex

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 13, 2025
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Sunday carrying an Israel Aerospace Industries communications satellite, a payload that had been kept largely secret until liftoff. "We at IAI are extremely proud of the development and successful launch into space of the State of Israel's 'Dror 1' national communications satellite, Boaz Levy, CEO and Presid

Paris, France (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
Space Rider, ESA's reusable orbital vehicle, has taken a major step forward in validating its precision landing system. The spacecraft, roughly the size of two minivans, is designed for missions ranging from pharmaceutical production to orbital platform servicing. It can remain in orbit for up to three months before autonomously returning to Earth using a parafoil-guided descent and skid landing

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This image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. In most cases, the material inside a protoplanetary disc condenses to form new planets around the star, leaving large gaps where the gas and dust used to be. These features are seen in almost every disc – but not in MP Mus’s.

When astronomers first observed it with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they saw a smooth,

Committee directs Air Force to study heavy-lift launch capacity, LOX-methane safety protocols

Varda Space Industries, a company developing spacecraft for microgravity life sciences and hypersonics research, has raised $187 million to expand the scope and cadence of its missions.