Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
HawkEye 360 Inc. has announced that its latest trio of satellites, known as Cluster 12, has reached Full Operational Capability (FOC). The satellites, launched June 26 aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, are now calibrated, commissioned, and integrated into the company's growing constellation, delivering signals intelligence to global customers. The mission also carried Kestrel-0A, an exp

Budapest, Hungary (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
On 9 September 2025, a Smart Dragon-3 rocket roared to life off the coast of Rizhao City, in eastern China's Shandong Province, carrying 11 Geely-05 satellites into orbit. Conducted from a maritime platform by the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, the mission marked the seventh successful flight of the Smart Dragon-3 and another step forward in China's quest to fuse commercial innovation with nat

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
China successfully carried out two separate rocket launches on Tuesday, deploying a total of 12 satellites into orbit. At 3:48 am, a Smart Dragon 3 rocket lifted off from a sea-based platform near Rizhao in Shandong province, placing 11 multifunction satellites into low-Earth orbit about 600 km above Earth. The launch marked the seventh maritime flight for this solid-fueled rocket, develop

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Frontgrade Technologies has unveiled the PSM28 VPX Power Supply Module, a compact, space-optimized solution engineered to deliver reliable and efficient power for next-generation spacecraft and payload systems. The 3U module is based on Frontgrade's proprietary MAMBA architecture and Space GaN technology, converting 28V input to a regulated 12V output. It supports up to 24A peak current wi

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other facilities worldwide have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the final target of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, is significantly smaller and rotates much faster than earlier estimates suggested. The findings provide crucial guidance for mission planning as the spacecraft prepares for its 2031 rendezvous. Lead

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
DE-CIX, the world's largest operator of Internet Exchanges, is extending its interconnection model beyond Earth. Through its Space-IX program, the company is laying the foundation for the first orbital Internet Exchange, enabling satellites and space-based systems to link seamlessly with terrestrial networks. Building on its network of 60 global IX locations that connect more than 4,000 pr

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Shandong province has advanced its role in China's commercial space industry with the Sept 9 launch of the Smart Dragon-3 Y7 from an offshore platform, its second mission in just one month. The province is emerging as a hub for sea-based launch activity, industrial development, and satellite manufacturing. According to Wang Chao of the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Informa

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
SES will evaluate new optical ground stations from France-based Cailabs to move space data using laser rather than radio signals. The company aims to lift throughput, harden link security, and ease congestion across increasingly crowded radio frequency bands by tapping optical communications. The effort advances space laser links that can reach up to 10 gigabits per second, roughly 100 tim

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
JUNO, the massive Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China, has officially started recording data, launching a ten-year program to investigate one of the most elusive particles in physics. Supported by an international collaboration that includes the CNRS, the detector aims to reveal how neutrinos influence both the subatomic world and the evolution of the Universe. Neutrinos are

East Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system - and how other distant solar systems might be different from our own. Even before the comet was discovered in early July, it was hiding among the stars, too faint to be noticeable. In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Jo