FCC chair proposes new rules for accidental space explosion risk


GOP senator calls for boosting Space Force capabilities to counter China


Successful engine test boosts Vega-C toward return-to-flight

New technique offers more precise maps of the moon's surface
![Cropped LOLA LDEM (a), (c) and SfS solution (b), (d) for the Malapert Massif candidate landing region, centered at 85.964°S, 357.681°E on a ridge near the summit of Mons Malapert. Both products show a central east–west ridgeline with primarily north- and south-facing slopes. Two hillshade images match illumination conditions of the low-Sun controlled NAC mosaic with subsolar longitude 315° [(a)–(b), Sun from top left] and 235° [(c)–(d), Sun from bottom left], elevation 5° above the horizon. Credit: The Planetary Science Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad41b4 New technique from Brown University researchers offers more precise maps of the Moon's surface](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/new-technique-from-bro.jpg)
NASA to measure moonquakes with help from InSight Mars mission

The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA's Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes.
The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the moon.
MDA Space Partners with Starlab Space in Commercial Space Station Venture
Starlab Space LLC, the joint venture between Voyager Space, Airbus, and Mitsubishi Corporation, has announced that MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has joined as a strategic partner and equity owner. This partnership expands the venture's reach into Canada.
MDA Space, known for its human-rated space robotics and the developer of the Canadarm robotics family, will provide external robotics, robotic Galactic Energy Completes Second Sea-Based Launch Mission
Galactic Energy, a private rocket maker in Beijing, completed the second sea-based launch mission of its Ceres 1 carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon.
The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 4:12 pm from a mobile launch platform - a modified deck barge - in the Yellow Sea off the eastern province of Shandong and then sent four satellites into an orbit about 850 k Western geologists test instrument for Mars rover mission in search for life
The search for life beyond Earth drives space exploration, and the discovery of clay minerals on Mars continues to captivate scientists. Clay formation, linked to rocks interacting with water, provides insights into the past habitability of Mars.
Western planetary geologists Livio Tornabene and Gordon Osinski lead an international team to study clay formation on Mars. Supported by a three- Asteroid Dinkinesh Has Dual Moons, Researchers Discover
When NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target, Dinkinesh, in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid, known as "Dinky," was accompanied by a satellite asteroid named "Selam." Further data from Lucy revealed that Selam is not a single moon but a contact binary-two moons fused together.
The Lucy team, including University of Maryland Professor Jessica Sunshi 

