Logos nets $50 million to advance plans for more than 4,000 broadband satellites
Thursday, 12 June 2025 21:13
Logos Space Services has raised $50 million to advance engineering plans for more than 4,000 broadband satellites, the startup founded by a former Google executive and NASA project manager announced June 12.
NASA indefinitely delays private astronaut mission, citing air leak in Russian module
Thursday, 12 June 2025 20:32
NASA and Axiom Space are indefinitely delaying a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station because of an air leak in a Russian module.
European Space Agency looks to non-US partners
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Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
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Why space wrecks the human body
Thursday, 12 June 2025 13:20
In this week's episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr.
334th ESA Council: Media information session
Thursday, 12 June 2025 12:30
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Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) brief journalists on the key decisions made during the ESA Council meeting held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 11–12 June 2025.
Dawn Aerospace sells Aurora suborbital spaceplane to Oklahoma
Thursday, 12 June 2025 11:00
Dawn Aerospace has announced the first order for its Aurora suborbital spaceplane, signing a deal to fly the vehicle from Oklahoma.
Muon Space raises $90 million to scale satellite production and acquire propulsion startup
Thursday, 12 June 2025 10:06
Four-year-old small satellite maker Muon Space announced $89.5 million in new funding June 12 to scale production and acquire propulsion startup Starlight Engines, bringing a potential supply chain bottleneck in-house.
Voyager looks to expanded defense and space opportunities as a public company
Thursday, 12 June 2025 07:50
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Space boarding pass Rocket Lab completes eighth Electron launch of 2025 deploying fifth iQPS satellite
Thursday, 12 June 2025 06:18
Rocket Lab has successfully executed its 66th Electron mission, deploying the QPS-SAR-11 satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The launch marks Rocket Lab's second mission for iQPS in just 25 days and its fourth overall, all completed with full mission success.
Lifting off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 15:31 UTC on June 11, the mission-titled "The PLD Space advances MIURA 5 launch capability with TEPREL C engine tests
Thursday, 12 June 2025 06:18
PLD Space has reached a critical milestone in the development of its MIURA 5 orbital launcher by completing integrated testing of its TEPREL-C rocket engines. This progress marks a significant step toward the start of the engine's flight qualification campaign, which is slated to begin at the end of June.
The Spanish aerospace company emphasizes propulsion as the foundation of its technolo Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
Thursday, 12 June 2025 06:18
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust.
The beads, each less than 1 mm across, formed some 3.3 to 3.6 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions on the surface of the then-young satellite ESA Flyeye telescope begins full sky survey for asteroid detection
Thursday, 12 June 2025 06:18
The European Space Agency's Flyeye telescope has officially commenced operations, capturing its first celestial images and marking a significant advancement in the detection of near-Earth asteroids and comets.
Engineered with a unique compound-eye-inspired design, Flyeye was developed by ESA and OHB Italia to monitor a sky area over 200 times the size of the full Moon in a single shot. Thi Unexpected Dust Patterns Found on Uranus Moons Confound Scientists
Thursday, 12 June 2025 06:18
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope set out to detect radiation-induced surface changes on Uranus' largest moons but uncovered a different phenomenon altogether.
The team had hypothesized that charged particles from Uranus' magnetosphere would darken the trailing hemispheres of its four major moons-Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon-due to constant bombardment. These moons are