Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful phenomena as the spacecraft dipped in and out of the solar corona. These new results offer fresh perspectives on how magnetic reconnection could heat the

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Rocket Lab has announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company. The mission, named 'The Mountain God Guards,' will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on June 10, 2025 UTC. The mission will launch a single synthetic apertur

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. ("iRocket"), a reusable space rocket developer, and BPGC Acquisition Corp. ("BPGC"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by The Hon. Wilbur Ross, the 39th U.S. Secretary of Commerce with more than 55 years of private equity and investment banking experience, and BPGC Management LP, an independent private equity firm dedicated to opportunistic buyou

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Voyager Technologies, Inc. (Voyager) reports it has commenced the roadshow for its proposed underwritten initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, the underwriters of the offering will have a 30-day option to purchase from Voyager up to 1,650,000 additional shares of its Class A common stock at the initial public offering price, less underwriting disc

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Impulse Space reports it has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round-one of the largest venture rounds in the history of the space industry. The round, led by Linse Capital, brings Impulse's total capital raised to $525 million. The pre-emptive raise is both a positive signal about Impulse's business trajectory and a direct response to surging customer demand. With over 30 signed c

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), a leading small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has been selected by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea to build the first CubeSat for the world's first long-term planetary science campaign which will use a series of CubeSats to monitor Venus from low Earth orbit. This long-term Venus observation initiative, the CL

London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Scientists analysing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, whilst being bombarded with large rocky objects. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to explore the atmosphere of WASP-121b, researchers successfully detected water (H2O), carbon monoxide (CO), and silicon monoxide (SiO) in the side f

Video: 00:02:27 An animation showing ESA’s Smile mission watching on as the Sun’s solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on 2 June 2025 when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe's largest active volcano.