December 17, 2025

DiskSat flat satellite platform targets high power missions and very low Earth orbit Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 The Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat concept introduces a flat, disk-shaped small satellite bus designed to provide more power, surface area, and payload volume than a traditional CubeSat while keepi ... more

China launches carrier rocket to deploy experimental cargo ship and satellite Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 China launched a Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket on Saturday morning to deploy a privately developed experimental cargo ship and a satellite into space. The rocket blasted off at 9:08 am at the Jiu ... more

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Mission Space to fly second space weather payload with Rogue Space Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during the Spac ... more

Arab Satellite 813 launch deepens UAE China space partnership Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 A Kinetica 1 rocket has placed the Arab Satellite 813 into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, marking a new phase of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China in space acti ... more

What General Contractors Must Know About AI-Powered Estimating Software Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 The construction industry, is long reliant on traditional methods, is undergoing a digital revolution. At the forefront of this shift is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the critical domain of cost estimation. ... more

JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more

Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operati ... more

HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hi ... more

ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researcher ... more Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space Telescope Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-r ... more New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show how different ... more Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been ... more Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope around the ... more Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its ... more Sun boundary map tracks shifting Alfven surface over solar cycle Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic control. By comb ... more Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 There are some jobs human bodies just weren't meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task - and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the n ... more Ionospheric gradients tracked in real time to sharpen space weather monitoring Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Accurate, real-time tracking of ionospheric structure is becoming critical for protecting satellite-based navigation and communications, and a new observation framework now directly measures how ele ... more PUNCH mission delivers sweeping new view of solar activity Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images that place the ... more