Rocket Lab has locked in three more Electron launches for Japanese radar satellite operator iQPS, extending a partnership that now spans 15 total missions. That number alone makes this one of the most significant customer relationships in the small launch industry. But the deal’s real significance is what it reveals about how small launch providers […]

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Forty days of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran have produced more than 5,000 dead, a $12.7 billion US military expenditure by day six alone, a blockaded shipping channel responsible for roughly 20% of global oil supply, and a ceasefire that both sides claim to have won while disagreeing on what it actually […]

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A Nigerian military airstrike reportedly struck a crowded village market in Jilli, Yobe State, with reports suggesting more than 100 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded, according to Amnesty International and local officials. The strike, which reportedly occurred on Saturday near the border between Yobe and Borno states in Nigeria’s northeast, has drawn sharp […]

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The collapse of US-Iran talks in Islamabad isn’t primarily a story about failed diplomacy. It’s a story about what happens when the world’s most critical energy chokepoint becomes a bargaining chip that neither side can afford to give up—and both sides are willing to destroy. The negotiation failure has locked the Strait of Hormuz into […]

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The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the strongest observational evidence ever obtained for Population III stars — the theorized first generation of stars that lit up a dark universe in the early cosmos. The findings, built on independent confirmations from multiple research teams, center on a tiny companion object near one of the most […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13.

A team of Japanese researchers has built an X-ray space telescope with remarkable precision, and they proved it works by launching it aboard a sounding rocket from Alaska in 2024. The telescope, developed through a collaboration between Nagoya University and Japan’s SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility, flew aboard the FOXSI-4 sounding rocket in April 2024. It […]

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In the world of planetary science, a decade-long mission is considered ambitious. JAXA, Japan’s space agency, is now weighing something far more audacious: a sample return mission that wouldn’t deliver its cargo until the late 2040s, more than 22 years from the earliest planning stages. The proposed Next Generation Small-Body Return (NGSR) mission to comet […]

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Artemis II completed a 10-day journey around the Moon, carrying humanity farther into space than it has gone in over 50 years.

ESA played a critical role in the mission’s success. The European Service Module powered and sustained Orion throughout the journey, providing propulsion, power, water and breathable air for the crew.

Mostly built with contributions from 13 ESA Member States—Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg—the module represents Europe’s strength in international cooperation.

Looking ahead, ESA will continue to deliver on its commitments to the Artemis programme while advancing

A once-in-a-century solar storm could cripple power grids, destroy satellites, and knock out GPS navigation systems for days — and the U.K. government has now quantified what that would cost. The U.K.’s most recent National Risk Register rates severe space weather as one of the highest-impact threats facing the country, alongside pandemics and cyberattacks, and […]

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