Washington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2025
A rocket by a private Chinese company saw its second failure on its planned orbital mission. On Sunday, the 62-foot-tall Ceres-1 Y-19 rocket by Chinese space firm Galactic Energy took off from northwest China at around 11:02 p.m. EST via Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission carried two satellites for China's Jilin-1 commercial Earth-observation constellation, and a craft

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2025
The SpaceX launch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station broke an annual launch record for Florida's spaceport. Monday's liftoff was the 94th launch of an orbital class rocket in the state, breaking the previous record set at the end of last year. "Engines full power and lift off. Go SpaceX. Go Starlink," mission contro

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
Quectel Wireless Solutions has announced a collaboration with Swift Navigation to provide real-time kinematic (RTK) correction solutions that deliver centimeter-level accuracy for a diverse range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The partnership integrates Quectel's RTK modules and antennas with Swift's Skylark Precise Positioning Service, enabling equipment manufacturers to streamline a

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
The European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile marked a milestone as four lasers, each launched from an eight-metre telescope, began operations to create artificial stars. These lasers power a new adaptive optics system for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), correcting atmospheric blur anywhere in the southern sky and enabling the VLTI to observe a much wider range of tar

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
A Long March 12 rocket placed the latest batch of low Earth orbit satellites into space on November 10, 2025, launching from the Hainan commercial spacecraft site in southern China. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) confirmed the successful deployment shortly after liftoff. This group represents the 13th installment of hardware for China's internet satellite network

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
S&P Global has completed the acquisition of the Automatic Identification System business from ORBCOMM. The AIS division operates a global constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, enabling real-time tracking and monitoring of merchant and government vessels far beyond terrestrial coverage zones. ORBCOMM's platform collects and processes millions of AIS messages daily from more than 150,000 sh

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
In the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, long before atoms or light-filled galaxies existed, the newborn cosmos may already have been seeded with complex structures. A new theoretical study published in Physical Review D by researchers from SISSA, in collaboration with INFN, IFPU, and the University of Warsaw, suggests that primordial halos of matter could have collapsed to form the

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
York Space Systems completed the initial commissioning of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) payload on the BARD mission, validating the mission's operations concept and advancing wideband space communications for NASA. During a continuous wave pass, York's operations team established first-contact telemetry download. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) acquired signal w

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
A meteoroid impact near Apollinaris Mons on Mars produced streaks and more than a hundred fresh markings across the slopes, as recorded by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on December 24, 2023. The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) gathered images that show a cluster of impact craters in the dust-shifted areas at the base of the slope. With supporting data from other imagery, rese