Senior defense leaders emphasize readiness amid resource challenges
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 12:19
Senior officers from the Air Force and Space Force addressed the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support on March 12, emphasizing that both branches remain mission-ready but are grappling with financial limitations and adversarial threats.
U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief for Operations Lt. Gen. Adrian Spain affirmed the force's preparedness: "I can confidently st Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 10:00
On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web.
Euclid is back – 26 million galaxies and counting
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 10:00
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The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has scouted out the three areas in the sky where it will eventually provide the deepest observations of its mission.
In just one week of observations, with one scan of each region so far, Euclid already spotted 26 million galaxies. The farthest of those are up to 10.5 billion light-years away.
In the coming years, Euclid will pass over these three regions tens of times, capturing many more faraway galaxies, making these fields truly ‘deep’ by the end of the nominal mission in 2030.
The first glimpse of 63 square degrees of the sky, the
Blue Ghost lander captures stunning sunset shots on the moon before falling silent
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
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Homebound: 'Stranded' ISS astronauts now hours from splashdown
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A new company plans to prospect the moon
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Astronauts finally head home after unexpected nine-month ISS stay
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
A pair of astronauts stranded in space for more than nine months were finally headed home Tuesday after their capsule undocked from the International Space Station.
The SpaceX craft carrying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams detached from the orbital outpost at 0505 GMT, ending their prolonged mission that has captivated global attention.
The NASA duo are joined onboard by American Nick Ha China's Ceres 1 completes 18th flight delivering eight satellites to orbit
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Galactic Energy, a private aerospace firm based in Beijing, successfully conducted its 18th mission using the Ceres 1 rocket on Monday, placing eight satellites into orbit.
According to a company release, the Ceres 1 rocket lifted off at 4:07 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, located in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The vehicle deployed the satellites into a sun-synchron Rocket Lab boosts Varda's space manufacturing with third successful orbital mission
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has confirmed that its third Pioneer spacecraft, developed for Varda Space Industries, Inc. ("Varda"), has been successfully deployed and is operating in orbit. The mission, designated W-3, launched on March 14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:43 p.m. PDT (06:43 a.m. UTC).
This deployment follows closely on the heels of Varda's W-2 mission, which c New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA's Lucy
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own. New modeling indicates that Donaldjohanson may have been formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin p UAE Space Agency advances asteroid exploration mission with design milestone
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR), a pivotal milestone in the project, held from February 24 to 26 with participation from Emirati and global experts. This review evaluated the detailed development of the MBR Explorer spacecraft, confirming its readiness to progress into the Assembly, Integration, and Test (AIT) phase. ispace and Kurita partner to test lunar water purification system
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
ispace, inc. has entered into a formal agreement with Kurita Water Industries, Ltd., a Japanese specialist in water treatment and chemical manufacturing, to support the delivery of a water purification demonstration system to the Moon. The memorandum of understanding sets the stage for transporting this experimental payload to the lunar surface on a future ispace mission scheduled for post-2027. 'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?
Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed.
The discovery - detailed last July in the journal Nature Geoscience - called into question long-held assumptions about the SKY Perfect JSAT contracts Thales Alenia Space for JSAT 32 satellite project
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Asia's top satellite operator, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to construct its latest geostationary satellite, JSAT-32.
Set to operate on Ku and Ka bands, JSAT-32 will deliver enhanced communication services across Japan and nearby maritime regions. Notably, the satellite will introduce new spot beams specifically designed for mobility-related appl