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June 13, 2025
MARSDAILY
NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops



Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2025
The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes. A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn. Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes form what is known as the Tharsis Montes, or Tharsis Mountains, which are often surrounded by water ice clouds (as opposed to Mars' equally common carbon dioxide clouds), especially in ... read more

OUTER PLANETS
Unexpected Dust Patterns Found on Uranus Moons Confound Scientists
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope set out to detect radiation-induced surface changes on Uranus' largest moons but uncovered a different phenomenon altogether. The team had hypoth ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Earth-based telescopes offer a fresh look at cosmic dawn
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using tele ... more
GPS NEWS
Breakthrough hybrid model restores orbit accuracy for BeiDou-3 satellites
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Two BeiDou-3 navigation satellites once plagued by orbit inconsistencies are now operating with significantly improved accuracy, thanks to a novel hybrid modeling technique that better accounts for ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA's Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2025
An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Faci ... more
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PLD Space advances MIURA 5 launch capability with TEPREL C engine tests
London, UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
PLD Space has reached a critical milestone in the development of its MIURA 5 orbital launcher by completing integrated testing of its TEPREL-C rocket engines. This progress marks a significant step ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab completes eighth Electron launch of 2025 deploying fifth iQPS satellite
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Rocket Lab has successfully executed its 66th Electron mission, deploying the QPS-SAR-11 satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The launch marks Rocket Lab's second mission ... more
IRON AND ICE
ESA Flyeye telescope begins full sky survey for asteroid detection
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
The European Space Agency's Flyeye telescope has officially commenced operations, capturing its first celestial images and marking a significant advancement in the detection of near-Earth asteroids ... more
MOON DAILY
Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
St. Louis, MO (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the ... more

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS


SOLAR SCIENCE
Solar Orbiter delivers first clear look at the Sun's poles from deep space
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Thanks to a newly inclined orbit, ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles taken from outside the ecliptic plane. This novel vantage point marks a breakth ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
UAH researcher unveils new map of Milky Way galaxy in atomic hydrogen
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars t ... more
SPACEMART
European Space Agency looks to non-US partners
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday it was looking to bolster alliances with countries other than the United States as it adapts to looming cuts at key partner NASA. ... more
TECH SPACE
Look Up secures major capital boost to expand radar network and space traffic services
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Three years after its founding, European space surveillance firm Look Up has secured EUR 50 million in funding to accelerate the global deployment of its radar network and strengthen its suite of sp ... more
ROBO SPACE
Next generation satellite servicing spacecraft completed by Northrop Grumman
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
Northrop Grumman has successfully integrated a robotics payload onto its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), advancing its satellite servicing platform under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
In the reduced-gravity space environment, human muscles and bones atrophy faster than they do on Earth. To slow down that process, astronauts need several hours of vigorous exercise each day they ar ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE
York preps first Dragoon Mission for Missile Warning and Warfighter Connectivity constellation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
York Space Systems (York), the Denver-based aerospace technology company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, reports that its Dragoon mission is ready for launch. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Out of the string theory swampland
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads o ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Where did cosmic rays come from? MSU astrophysicists are closer to finding out
East Lansing MI (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where pl ... more
EXO WORLDS
Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanet
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant "exoplanets" form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in e ... more
EXO WORLDS
Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation
London, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Deciphering the behavior of heavy particles in the hottest matter in the universe
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of some of the heaviest particles in the universe under extreme conditions, ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
China testing orbital refueling procedures for satellite missions
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025
China is positioning a satellite to test its ability to refuel another in orbit over Earth and extend its mission for several more years. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Axiom-4 mission launch scrubbed as SpaceX detects leak in Falcon 9 rocket
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025
The Axiom-4 mission launch, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, was canceled for a second time Tuesday after SpaceX detected a liquid oxygen leak in its Falcon 9 rocket. ... more
TECH SPACE
Aethero Secures $8.4M to Build the Next Generation of Space-Based Computing and Autonomous Spacecraft
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
Aethero, a defense-focused startup building space-grade computers and autonomous satellite platforms, has announced $8.4M in seed funding. The company's seed round is led by Kindred Ventures with pa ... more
SPACEMART
EU clears European satellite giant SES bid for US rival Intelsat
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) June 10, 2025
The EU on Tuesday cleared European satellite group SES's $3.1 billion acquisition of US rival Intelsat, a move the company hopes will help it compete in a race for space-based internet services, currently led by Elon Musk's Starlink. ... more
SPACEMART
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday morning. ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Chinese rocket delivers e-commerce packages in sea recovery test
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
A Chinese private rocket firm has successfully tested transporting packages from Taobao, one of the country's largest e-commerce platforms, using a reusable rocket. The rocket was later recovered fr ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
BlackSky Gen-3 delivers very hi-res imagery at warfighting speed - 12 hours after launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has delivered the first very high-resolution images from the company's second Gen-3 satellite just 12 hours following its successful launch last Monday. " ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Washington (AFP) June 7, 2025
SpaceX's rockets ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Starlink satellite constellation blankets the globe with broadband, and the company is embedded in some of the Pentagon's most sensitive projects, including tracking hypersonic missiles. ... more
MOON DAILY
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025
Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. ... more
MARSDAILY
Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission
Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025
Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars - so why has the renowned aerospace engineer soured on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge? ... more
MARSDAILY
The promise and peril of a crewed Mars mission
Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025
A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history - and US President Donald Trump has vowed to make it a national priority. ... more
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