Rosotics pivots to focus on orbital transport vehicles
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 16:00
Rosotics seeks to build a propellant depot at Earth-moon Lagrange Point 5.
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Defense Department’s new tool to investigate on-orbit anomalies
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 15:36
Cloud-based tool to help military satellite operators determine the cause of on-orbit anomalies.
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Yutu-2 rover likely immobile on the moon after historic lunar far side mission
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 14:41
BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby: the movie
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 14:00
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Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the Sun. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft captured these images of the Solar System's smallest planet on 7 and 8 January 2025, before and during its sixth encounter with Mercury. This was its final planetary flyby until it enters orbit around the planet in late 2026.
The video begins with BepiColombo's approach to Mercury, showing images taken by onboard monitoring cameras 1 and 2 (M-CAM 1 and M-CAM 2) between 16:59 CET on 7 January and 01:45 CET on 8 January. During this time, the
SpaceX sends up 5th Space Coast launch of the year
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Congressman watches for potential changes at NASA under Trump administration
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 11:45
The congressman whose district includes NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says he is taking a wait-and-see approach to potential changes to the center.
Martijn Blanken, Neo Space Group – Commercial Space Transformers
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 11:35
In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Martijn Blanken, CEO, Neo Space Group (NSG).
SpaceX aims for Wednesday afternoon to launch Starship's 7th test mission
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 11:08
The seventh flight test of SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to launch on Wednesday, January 15. This flight test will showcase a new iteration of Starship with substantial upgrades, marking its first payload deployment test, multiple reentry experiments, and both the launch and return of the Super Heavy booster.
Among the upgrades to Starship's upper stage are redesigned forward flaps reloca Blue Origin scrubs key test launch again, eyes Thursday
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, called off the inaugural launch of its huge new rocket again on Monday evening after facing weather issues.
The company said it would aim for early Thursday morning at the earliest, with a new three-hour window starting at 1:00 am (0600 GMT).
An initial test launch of the towering 320-foot (98-meter) rocket, dubbed New Gle China's Smart Dragon 3 rocket launches satellites from sea
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
China successfully launched its Smart Dragon 3 carrier rocket on Monday morning from a sea-based platform near Haiyang, Shandong province, deploying 10 satellites into space. The mission highlighted the growing capability of sea-based launches as a strategic tool for satellite deployment.
The rocket lifted off at 11 a.m. from a dedicated launch service ship, releasing the satellites into a Spacewalk Preps, Biology Research Wrap Up Week Aboard Station
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
The Expedition 72 crew wrapped up the week aboard the International Space Station preparing for a spacewalk to service science and station hardware next week. The orbital residents also continued their biotechnology and human research activities to advance health on Earth and in space.
Two spacewalks are scheduled for Jan. 16 and Jan. 23 to maintain astrophysics research gear, replace adva NASA and Italian Space Agency test future Lunar navigation technology
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.
A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payload, a joint effort between NASA and the Italian Space Agency to demonstrate the Nokia's cellular network to enable Lunar mission connectivity as Intuitive Machines completes integration
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK, Euronext: NOKIA) have completed the final integration of Nokia's Lunar Surface Communication System ("LSCS") into the Athena lunar lander for the IM-2 mission. This mission aims to establish the first cellular network on the Moon, focusing on the lunar south pole region.
Collaborating with Nokia Bell Labs, Intuitive Machi Samples from Mars to reveal planet's evolutionary secrets
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
Mars exhibits a unique blend of geological features reminiscent of both the moon and Earth, making it a fascinating subject of study for scientists.
Current insights into the Red Planet's evolution stem largely from spacecraft observations and meteorite analysis. These meteorites, primarily found in deserts and Antarctica, were once part of Mars before being ejected into space and eventual Neutron Star Deformations May Create Space-Time Ripples
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 03:20
Collapsed stars, known as neutron stars, possess extraordinary density - a trillion times that of lead. Despite their significance, the surface features of neutron stars remain largely uncharted. Recent investigations by nuclear theorists have drawn parallels between mountain formation mechanisms on planetary bodies in our solar system and those on neutron stars. These findings suggest that neut