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June 25, 2025
SPACE TRAVEL
India, Poland, Hungary make spaceflight comeback with ISS mission



Cape Canaveral (AFP) June 25, 2025
A US commercial mission carrying crew from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, taking astronauts from these countries to space for the first time in decades. Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:31 am (0631 GMT), with a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The vehicle is scheduled to dock with the orbital lab on Thursday at approximately 1100 GMT and remain there for u ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA completes full-duration 'hot fire' test of new RS-25 engine
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2025
NASA fired up a full-duration test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis missions to the moon, the space agency announced Monday. ... more
MOON DAILY
Japan's ispace blames 'hard landing' on moon on Laser Range Finder
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2025
Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an anomaly in the Laser Range Finder. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
NASA working to fix space station's NICER X-ray telescope
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2025
The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray telescope has a bad motor that paused its tracking of cosmic objects until NASA engineers can fix it. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Earth's satellites at risk if asteroid smashes into Moon: study
Paris (AFP) June 23, 2025
If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers. ... more
SPACEMART
ULA, Amazon launch second batch of satellites on Atlas V rocket
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2025
United Launch Alliance on Monday launched an Atlas V rocket carrying satellites for Amazon's Internet constellation. ... more
SPACEWAR
Portugal expands space capabilities with ICEYE SAR satellite acquisition
London, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2025
ICEYE has signed an agreement with the Portuguese Air Force to deliver a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, along with a ground segment and antenna, marking a strategic investment in national ... more
MOON DAILY
High precision LLNL telescope to drive next generation lunar imaging
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is advancing a major leap in lunar imaging through a partnership with Firefly Aerospace. The lab's cutting-edge optical telescope system is set to fly a ... more
SPACEWAR
Orion advances Ouija satellite toward 2025 VLEO launch milestone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Orion Space Solutions, a subsidiary of Arcfield, has announced the successful completion of the test readiness review (TRR) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Ouija mission. ... more

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS


SPACEWAR
Maxar adds Array Labs radar imaging to expand real time 3D Earth data
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Maxar Intelligence has signed an agreement with Array Labs to secure exclusive access to radar imaging data from Array Labs' planned 3D satellite constellation, expected to launch in late 2026. This ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Eutelsat to Deliver Low Orbit Satellite Services Under New French Defense Agreement
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Eutelsat and France's Ministry of the Armed Forces have formalized a major agreement aligned with the national NEXUS (Neo-Espace pour de multiples Usages Securises) program, aimed at modernizing mil ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA prepares sensor breakthrough for upcoming hypersonic rocket flights
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is preparing for the first hypersonic test flights of its Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS), a compact and lightweight technology that measures temperature an ... more
SPACEWAR
Axient joins Space Force STEP 20 initiative to drive next generation orbital tech
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Astrion, operating through its legacy firm Axient LLC, has secured a place among 12 contractors selected for the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Experiments Program (STEP) 2.0. This expansive initiati ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space X set to launch Transporter-14 rideshare mission
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2025
SpaceX is set to launch its Transporter-14 rideshare mission, carrying multiple satellites and human DNA. ... more
MOON DAILY
New Ocula imaging service to deliver detailed lunar data from orbit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Firefly Aerospace has unveiled a new lunar imaging service called Ocula, set to debut as early as 2026 aboard its Elytra spacecraft. Enabled by high-resolution ultraviolet and visible spectrum teles ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
MyPaperHelp Review: Is This Academic Service Legit?
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2025
MyPaperHelp Review: Honest Look at Services, Pricing, and Student Results If you're a student juggling multiple assignments, exams, and deadlines, academic stress can pile up fast. That's where MyP ... more
GPS NEWS
Bogong moths rely on stars and magnetic fields to guide epic migrations
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have confirmed that Bogong moths navigate using the stars and the Milky Way, making them the first known invertebrates to rely on celestial cues for long-di ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA scientists find ties between Earth's oxygen and magnetic field
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. T ... more
FIRE STORM
Globalstar expands wildfire safety tools with Technosylva satellite tech
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Globalstar (NASDAQ: GSAT) has announced further international deployment of its satellite-enabled technologies through an expanding partnership with Technosylva, a specialist in wildfire modeling an ... more
IRON AND ICE
NASA raises chance for asteroid to hit moon
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2025
NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon. ... more
SPACEWAR
BlackSky plans new satellite network for large-scale AI-driven Earth observation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has announced a major expansion of its satellite constellation with the addition of a new class of multispectral, wide-area imaging satellites. The forthcoming ... more
EXO WORLDS
Fish biofluorescence evolved independently over 100 times in evolutionary history
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
New research from the American Museum of Natural History has uncovered that fish biofluorescence-a phenomenon where organisms absorb light and emit it as a different color-has independently evolved ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA to Gather In-Flight Imagery of Commercial Test Capsule Re-Entry
Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a subscale ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Next generation engine initiative launched by ArianeGroup with CNES support
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
ArianeGroup has signed a new agreement with the French Space Agency (CNES) to spearhead the development and validation of next-generation, high-thrust rocket engines. These engines are expected to d ... more
MARSDAILY
Thick Martian clays may have formed in stable ancient lakebeds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
New research led by the University of Texas at Austin reveals that thick layers of clay on Mars likely formed in ancient, stable lakebeds, creating environments that could have supported early life. ... more
MOON DAILY
DLR and NASA expand Artemis partnership with enhanced lunar radiation detectors
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
DLR and NASA have signed a renewed agreement to strengthen their collaborative efforts in space medicine, with a particular emphasis on radiation research. The announcement came during the Paris Air ... more
EXO WORLDS
SkyMapper and SETI launch real time global astronomy data network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
SkyMapper has partnered with the SETI Institute to create a decentralized astronomical data network aimed at providing continuous, real-time sky observations to scientists, educators, and citizen as ... more
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MERCURY RISING
Tidal forces from the Sun may have shaped Mercury's tectonic features
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
New research from the University of Bern reveals that tidal forces from the Sun may have significantly contributed to the formation of Mercury's hills and cliffs, challenging the long-standing belie ... more
EXO WORLDS
Shaping of rocky planets traced to final stages of formation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025
Southwest Research Institute and Yale University scientists have compiled recent advancements in understanding how late-stage accretion shaped the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets. Thei ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Meteosat-12 begins prime service delivering enhanced weather data for Europe
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
A new era in European meteorological observation has officially begun with Meteosat-12 assuming the role of primary geostationary satellite, replacing Meteosat-10. Operated by EUMETSAT, Meteosat-12- ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Proba-3 reveals breakthrough images of the solar corona from space
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Proba-3, the European Space Agency's dual-satellite mission, has achieved a historic milestone by capturing its first images of the Sun's outer atmosphere during an artificial solar eclipse in orbit ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Satellite expands Chinas disaster warning network through global electromagnetic monitoring
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
China has launched a new satellite designed to improve the country's early warning capabilities for natural disasters by monitoring Earth's electromagnetic environment. Developed in partnership with ... more
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