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  Nottingham UK (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 The Artemis program has been Nasa's best chance to get "boots on the Moon" again. But with the new US administration taking guidance from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is focused on Mars colonisation, will they end up abandoning or pushing back lunar missions? For example, there's been speculation that returning US president Donald Trump may cancel the Space Launch System rocket, which Nasa intended to use to get from the Moon to Mars. But is this approach likely to help them get to Mars quicke ... read more |
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Searching for Water on the Moon: UC San Diego Researchers Uncover Clues to Lunar Water's OriginsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 As humanity envisions establishing a permanent presence on the moon, Mars, and beyond, the challenge of sustaining life comes down to the essentials: oxygen, food, and water. While it is well-known ... more  
China's DeepSeek-R1: A Game-Changing AI Release or Strategic Gesture?Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 28, 2025 In a move that has taken the global artificial intelligence (AI) community by surprise, DeepSeek, a private Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng, has ... more 
Spacewalkers Complete Radio Hardware Removal and Microbe SearchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore successfully completed a spacewalk at 1:09 p.m. EST on Jan. 30. This marked the ninth spacewalk for Williams and the fifth for Wilmore, contributing t ... more 
NASA Tech Instrument Captures Test Images During Blue Ghost Lunar TransitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has reached the 15th day of its planned 45-day journey to the Moon, marking an important milestone in its transit. Among the key scientific payloads onboard is the Ste ... more |
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Collaboration at Mainz University enables the simulation of skyrmion dynamics on experimentally relevant time scalesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 Magnetic skyrmions, which range in size from nanometers to micrometers, exhibit particle-like properties and can be efficiently manipulated using electrical currents. This makes them a promising can ... more |
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SpaceX launches from Florida, retires first-stage booster because of extra power neededWashington DC (UPI) Jan 29, 2025 SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired the first-stage booster rather than landing on a droneship. ... more  
Satcube's launches new Enhanced Government Terminals for any environmentBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Satcube has unveiled upgraded government satellite communication terminals, designed to enhance security and undetectability for mission-critical operations. These latest innovations bring advanced ... more  
Life's building blocks in Bennu samplesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases - building blocks of DNA and RNA - in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies wi ... more 
ESA Monitoring Potential Threat from Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered near-Earth object that has a minimal chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. ... more |
 
Chinese Satellite Companies Expand Global Services with Advanced Networks and ConstellationsSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Chinese space companies are rapidly expanding their global satellite services, offering capabilities in communications, navigation, and remote sensing. This expansion is coupled with a swift increas ... more  |
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SiriusXM's SXM-9 Satellite Begins Full Operation After Successful TestingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 SiriusXM and Maxar Space Systems announced today that the SXM-9 satellite has completed its in-orbit testing phase and is now fully operational. This milestone follows the successful launch of the s ... more  
EagleView Unveils Advanced Property Data EcosystemLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 EagleView, a leader in aerial imagery and geospatial intelligence, has announced the release of its advanced property data ecosystem. The platform aggregates more than 60 petabytes of high-definitio ... more  
Australian innovation detects space phenomena with new technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more 
NASA Space Tech Prepares for Lunar Exploration with Innovative Dust Mitigation TechnologiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 NASA's Space Technology Division is gearing up for an exciting year of exploration with a focus on the Moon. In 2025, the agency is set to test ten advanced science and technology demonstrations, in ... more |
Airbus-built SpainSat NG-I satellite successfully launchedToulouse, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 The first of the next-generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I, has successfully launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA. This advanced satellite, operated by Hisdesat for th ... more 
ESA Contracts Thales Alenia Space-Led Consortium for First Lunar LanderParis, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space, located in Italy, a significant contract to lead a European consortium tasked with building the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element (LDE), ... more 
Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to lifeWashington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals al ... more  
SwRI experiments validate theories about Titan's atmospheric sustainabilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Carnegie Institution for Science have conducted advanced laboratory experiments to explore the mechanisms that allow Saturn's moon Titan to maintain its d ... more |
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Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar systemPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially tra ... more  
Small and Yet So Powerful: New Insights into Cosmic Rays from Low-Mass MicroquasarsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Our planet is constantly bombarded by particles from outer space. While most of us are familiar with the sight of rocky meteorites - those shooting stars that light up the night sky - it's the small ... more 
Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid BennuBerkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old aster ... more 
Dust from asteroid Bennu shows: Building blocks of life and possible habitats were widespread in our solar systemFrankfurt, Germamy (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state ... more |
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PUNCH solar arrays pass critical pre-launch testsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Technicians supporting NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission have successfully deployed and tested the spacecraft's solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations pr ... more |
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Sidus Space Receives FCC Approval for Direct-to-Device CapabilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a dynamic leader in space mission technology, has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to integrate direc ... more  
Adding bridges to stabilize quantum networksLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2025 Entangled photons, a cornerstone of quantum computing and communications, face a significant challenge: they vanish after a single use. To address this, researchers at Northwestern University have p ... more  
BlackSky secures $100 million contract for next-generation space monitoring capabilitiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has signed a seven-year contract exceeding $100 million with a long-standing strategic partner in the international defense sector. The agreement ensures annual ... more  
ESA and Hisdesat prepare to launch advanced secure communications satelliteParis, France (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Hisdesat, Spain's leading provider of secure satellite communications, is set to launch the SpainSat Next Generation I (SNG I) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 29 at 20:34 EST (J ... more |
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