From 7 to 10 October 2025, Europe and Africa took another important step toward deepening their cooperation in space. At the ESA Education Training and Learning Facility in ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium, young engineers from across both continents came together for the Space Systems Engineering Training Course, jointly supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Space Agency (AfSA).

Image: View from above: Ariane 6 for Sentinel-1D on the launch pad

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Boston, MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Marco Graffiedi, a doctoral student in nuclear science and engineering, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores, and NASA craft the next generation of space vehicles. Quenching, a powerful heat transfer mechanism, is remarkably effective at transporting heat away. But in extreme environments, like nuclear power plants and aboard spaceshi

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2025
For months, analysts have asked the same question: how can stocks, gold, and bitcoin all be rising together while debt and politics crumble beneath them? The answer may be simpler - and more sobering - than anyone wants to admit. The market hasn't lost its mind; it's hedging against one. What we're seeing is not irrational exuberance, but a silent hedge: a vast, mostly unspoken rotation of

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
MDA Space has made a $10 million equity investment in Maritime Launch Services, acquiring shares at $0.223 each. This partnership is expected to expand Canada's sovereign space launch capabilities and enhance the country's domestic space value chain from ground operations to orbit. The funds will support the development of Spaceport Nova Scotia, improving readiness for orbital launch operations

Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 4, 2025
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma "fireballs" using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva, to study the stability of plasma jets emanating from blazars. The results, published (3 November) in PNAS, could shed new light on a long-standing mystery about the Universe's hidden magnetic fields and mis

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The question continues to intrigue scientists because dark matter is invisible and hypothetical, neither emitting nor reflecting light. Researchers from the University of Geneva, collaborating across several institutions, aimed to determine whether dark matter behaves similarly to ordinary matter on a cosmological scale or if additional f

Paris, France (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated the study phase of the HOBI-WAN project, aimed at addressing astronaut food supply on extended Moon or Mars missions without Earth resupply. Funded by ESA's Terrae Novae Exploration Programme, HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition) will test Solar Foods' gas fermentation technology for producing Solein pro

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
A hybrid Cessna 337 took flight from a Southern California runway with a unique configuration: a gas engine up front and a rear electric engine powered by a silicon-carbide inverter developed by the UA Power Group. The experiment demonstrated that the silicon carbide system is smaller and more efficient than standard silicon-based motor drives and can replace them in hybrid aircraft. Alan

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
The University of Michigan, supported by a $2 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, has launched a three-year research project aimed at enabling satellites in orbit to exchange power and momentum using laser links. The initiative, named ORACLE (Orbital Architectures for Cooperative Laser Energetics), seeks to augment existing laser-based data interlinks with new modes f