December 09, 2025

The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nea ... more

Lodestar Space wins SECP support to advance AI satellite awareness system London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Lodestar Space has secured funding through the UK Space Agency's Space Ecosystem Commercialisation Programme, delivered by Space South Central, to accelerate work on its on-orbit sensing system Mith ... more

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Vast spinning galaxy filament mapped in nearby Universe Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures observed so far, a thin string of hydrogen-rich galaxies embedded in a spinning c ... more

Mars clocks run ahead of Earth by microseconds each day Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have produced the first detailed calculation of how fast time passes on Mars compared with Earth, providing a parameter that future h ... more

KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino region Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Neutrinos are among the most abundant matter particles in the Universe, yet they interact so weakly that they are difficult to detect and study. The Standard Model includes three neutrino types, but ... more

SwRI links Uranus radiation belt mystery to solar storm driven waves Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 SwRI scientists report that a reanalysis of Voyager 2 measurements suggests a powerful solar storm may explain why Uranus hosts an electron radiation belt far more intense than expected. They propos ... more

Martian butterfly crater reveals low angle impact and buried lava history Paris, France (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 ESA's Mars Express orbiter has observed an impact crater in Mars's northern lowlands whose shape resembles a butterfly, created when an incoming space rock struck the surface at a shallow angle. The ... more

Astrobotic lunar surface sensor to track cislunar traffic and security Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Astrobotic has secured a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award to develop Clavius-S, a visible-band imaging sensor designed to detect and track spacecraft in low lunar orbit from the ... more

Sea based rocket net recovery platform enters service for Chinese reusable launchers Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 China has taken delivery of its first sea based platform designed to recover rockets using a net system, adding a key element to national plans for reusable launch vehicles. The vessel, named ... more Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems have merged to form Applied Aerospace and Defense, a single supplier focused on precision hardware and systems for aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehi ... more Outage Prevention from Orbit: Why Utilities Are Turning to Satellites and Geospatial Analytics Perrysburg OH (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Utilities and local energy distribution companies (LDCs) face ongoing challenges in managing their infrastructure. Keeping track of power lines, pipelines, energy plant emissions, and other assets is essential ... more NASA to test commercial robotic arm in orbit to advance in space construction Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission will support developm ... more Power grid agreement to supply energy for Loft Orbital satellites Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Loft Orbital and Star Catcher Industries have signed what is described as one of the first commercial energy purchase agreements for space operations. The deal allows Loft to buy power from Star Cat ... more Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can rival the ne ... more Isolation and bed rest volunteers sought for future spaceflight research Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 DLR and ESA are recruiting volunteers for two human research campaigns at the :envihab aerospace medicine facility in Cologne that will simulate key aspects of long duration missions beyond low Eart ... more Wenchang spaceport hits record cadence with double-digit launches in 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 China's Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site has reached a new milestone in 2025, logging its 10th orbital mission of the year and achieving double-digit annual launches for the first time since operatio ... more NRO extends HawkEye 360 deal for tactical RF data and analytics support Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec v, 2025 HawkEye 360 has received 23 months of dedicated funding from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Commercial Systems Program Office to expand its role in providing commercial radio-frequ ... more Portuguese Air Force secures first directly owned SAR satellite from ICEYE Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The Portuguese Air Force has signed a contract with ICEYE for the direct procurement of a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, marking the first time the service will own a satellite outright and sig ... more