London, UK (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
AAC Clyde Space has started building two additional maritime data satellites, Sedna-3 and Sedna-4, to expand capacity in its established space-based maritime data services. The company has placed orders for key components and assigned the build to its U.S. subsidiary AAC SpaceQuest, aiming to support continuity of service and improve performance as its fleet renews

Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 16, 2026
OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday. AI agent tool OpenClaw has fascinated - and spooked - the tech world since researcher Peter Steinberger built it in November to help organise his digital life. A Reddit-like pseudo social network for OpenClaw agents called

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026
Texas A and M University has developed TAMU SPIRIT, a dedicated orbital research platform that will be deployed on the International Space Station in partnership with Aegis Aerospace. The platform will mount on the station's Express Logistics Carrier 3 and give Texas A and M System faculty, researchers and students sustained access to the conditions of low Earth orbit for a wide range of experim

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
The European Union has begun operational use of its 'Governmental Satellite Communications Programme', known as 'GOVSATCOM', opening secure encrypted satellite communications services to EU member states under European control. The move marks a significant step in the bloc's efforts to secure strategic autonomy in space-based communications for government and security users. At the core of

London, UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2026
New analysis shows that Arctic peatlands have expanded in recent decades as the region has warmed far faster than the global average. Average temperatures in the Arctic have risen by about 4 C over the last forty years, and the study links this rapid warming to the outward growth of peat-forming ecosystems. Led by the University of Exeter, the research team examined peatland cores taken fr

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
Thousands of satellites are launched every year to support navigation, telecommunications, weather forecasting and emergency warning services, and most rely on onboard propulsion systems to manoeuvre once in orbit. These propulsion systems are essential to change orbits, perform end of life de-orbiting, carry out collision avoidance with space debris or other satellites, maintain or adjust

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
A research team led by Professor Hexi Wu and Dr Weicheng Li has developed a dynamic three dimensional terrain correction method that significantly improves the quantitative inversion accuracy of airborne gamma ray spectrometer surveys. The approach combines a novel sourceless efficiency calibration technique with a flight path based terrain model to tackle long standing challenges caused by over

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
In 2019, an unusual gravitational wave event labelled GW190521 rippled across the universe and into detectors on Earth, initially interpreted as the merger of two black holes each tens of times more massive than the Sun. A European-led team now argues that some signals of this kind might instead come from exotic dark matter objects that closely mimic black holes while lacking their defining feat

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
At the future departure gate for Chinas crewed lunar journeys at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, personnel in blue uniforms have been carrying out post launch operations around a newly built tower dedicated to human missions to the Moon. The tower and its associated systems are being checked after the facility handled its first launch. The new

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026
A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has identified a previously unseen population of dusty, star-forming galaxies located at the far reaches of the observable universe and dating to only about one billion years after the Big Bang, which is estimated to have occurred 13.7 billion years ago. These galaxies appear to provide a missing ev