Space News from SpaceDaily.com
October 15, 2025
ROCKET SCIENCE
K2 Space Corp, SpaceX ink Falcon 9 rocket deal for 2027 mission



Washington DC (UPI) Oct 14, 2025
Aerospace startup company K2 Space will team up with SpaceX to deploy a small number of K2 satellites into multiple levels of Earth's orbit. On Tuesday, California-based K2 Space announced its new contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch three K2 satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket for a 2027 mission dubbed "Trinity," which will lift three satellites into low, medium and geostationary transfer orbit. "We are bringing something brand new to the satellite bus industry," according to Karan Ku ... read more

SPACE.WIRE
TECH.WIRE
NUKE.WIRE
Previous Issues Oct 14 Oct 13 Oct 10 Oct 09 Oct 08
ROCKET SCIENCE
PLD Space fast-tracks MIURA 5 and sharpens Europe leadership in space access
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
PLD Space says it has advanced its reusable MIURA 5 orbital launcher from concept to near-validation in just two years, crediting vertical integration, MIURA 1 heritage, and in-house manufacturing. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab begins 21-mission campaign for Synspective with successful Electron launch
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
Rocket Lab has launched the first of 21 planned Electron missions for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective, successfully deploying the StriX-3 satellite to low Earth orbit on October 14. The m ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Snapdragon Mission Tactical Radio gains Iridium data for global L band connectivity
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
Iridium Communications and Qualcomm Technologies have integrated Iridium data services into the Snapdragon Mission Tactical Radio, aiming to deliver resilient, secure L band satellite links for U.S. ... more
SPACEWAR
Eagleview launches innovation center to expand AI-driven geospatial intelligence
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
Eagleview has announced the creation of Eagleview Labs, a new innovation center focused on accelerating the commercial and government applications of geospatial intelligence. The initiative aims to ... more
MARSDAILY
Blocks of dry ice carve gullies on Martian dunes through explosive sublimation
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
Mysterious gullies carved into Martian sand dunes have long puzzled planetary scientists. Now, new experiments by Utrecht University Earth scientist Dr Lonneke Roelofs suggest they were dug not by f ... more
MARSDAILY
Key ExoMars Rover part ships from Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth, Wales (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing. The infrared spectrom ... more
MARSDAILY
Yeast withstands Mars-like shocks and toxic salts in survival test
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity - from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at th ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Could these wacky warm Jupiters help astronomers solve the planet formation puzzle?
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
What do you do when you have an unanticipated astronomical phenomenon, a dataset made of planets thousands of light-years away and theoretical models that fail to explain what exactly you're looking ... more

ADVERTISEMENT


TECHNOLOGY NEWS


Available on Amazon Books

ROCKET SCIENCE
Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown - using Musk's Starlink
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation can reveal. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Rice physicists probe quark-gluon plasma temperatures, helping paint more detailed picture of big bang
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 14, 2025
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at various stages of its evolution, providing critical insights in ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Dark Matter might leave a 'fingerprint' on light, scientists say
York UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Dark Matter, the substance that makes up most of the Universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light 'fingerprint', new research shows. Previously assumed to be invisible, the s ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
White dwarf binaries heated by intense tidal forces evolve faster than predicted
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2025
White dwarfs, the dense remnants of exhausted stars, are usually ancient, dim, and cool. Yet some binary systems containing them defy expectations, glowing tens of thousands of degrees hotter than t ... more
TECH SPACE
Composite metal foam endures repeated heavy loads at 400C and 600C
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
New research led at NC State shows composite metal foam, or CMF, retains exceptional performance under high temperature cyclic loading. The team reports the lightweight material withstood repeated h ... more
TECH SPACE
Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum. The new printable metal is mad ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


TECH SPACE
Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturing
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
For decades, it's been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter - or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recen ... more
ICE WORLD
North American ice sheets caused majority of post-Ice Age sea-level rise
New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
Melting ice sheets in North America were the primary cause of a dramatic global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, according to new research led by Tulane University and published in Nat ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers find mystery dark object in distant universe
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe. Finding more such objects and understanding their nature could rule out some th ... more
EXO WORLDS
Completed Plato spacecraft construction enters final test campaign
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Europe cannot let US, China be 'technological leaders': Nobel laureate Aghion
Stockholm Oct 13, 2025
One of the winners of this year's Nobel economics prize, France's Philippe Aghion, on Monday warned Europe that it must not let the United States and China dominate technological innovation. ... more
SPACEMART
Vantor and Lanteris mark new era for space intelligence and defense technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems - formerly Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems, respectively - have each launched bold new identities, marking the completion of a historic transformation fo ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Rice scientists use electrons to pattern light sources and wiring directly onto crystals
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into an ultrathin crystal. The approach produced traces narrower than the width ... more
ROBO SPACE
Death of 'sweet king': AI chatbots linked to teen tragedy
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
A chatbot from one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI startups called a 14-year-old "sweet king" and pleaded with him to "come home" in passionate exchanges that would be the teen's last communications before he took his own life. ... more
TECH SPACE
Light-driven control of topological structures unlocks new path for ultrafast memory
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
In a breakthrough uniting photonics and condensed matter physics, researchers have developed a new optical technique to precisely control topological solitons - including skyrmions and antiskyrmions ... more
TECH SPACE
Light pulses enable next-generation stable data storage
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have discovered a new way to store information using light rather than electricity or magnetism. Their approac ... more
TECH SPACE
Light triggers formation of high-mobility electron gas in oxide interfaces
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
A CNRS-led international team has uncovered a way to generate an electron gas - typically found in LED screens - simply by shining light on a layered oxide material. When the illumination ceases, th ... more
TECH SPACE
New theory transforms understanding of nanoscale heat transport
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Heat, once thought to flow smoothly and predictably through materials, behaves far more intricately when observed at the nanoscale. A team from Auburn University and the U.S. Department of Energy's ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


Available on Amazon Books

MARSDAILY
Martian craters record repeated ice ages as planetary ice stores dwindle
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Scientists have long debated how much water Mars once held and how it faded to today's arid world. A new study in Geology mines "ice archives" preserved inside impact craters to reconstruct a climat ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid rotation patterns reveal new insights into their interiors
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Whether an asteroid spins smoothly or tumbles chaotically has now been linked to its history of collisions, according to new findings from ESA's Gaia mission presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meet ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Giant double-ring radio galaxy found halfway across the unhgerse
London UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and powerful odd radio circle (ORC) ever observed, revealing a rare cosmic structure nearly halfway across the universe. The newly identified source, RAD ... more
EXO WORLDS
Spirals in young star disk reveal planet formation process
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured the motion of spiral structures in the disk of dust and gas surrounding the young star IM Lup, offering new ev ... more
EXO WORLDS
Baby' Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps ... more
ADVERTISEMENT




Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2025 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement