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August 06, 2025
MARSDAILY
Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Picks Up New Skills



Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2025
Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask - improvements designed to make the most of Curiosity's energy source, a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG). Increased efficiency means the rover has ample power as it continues to decipher how the ancient Martian climate changed, transforming a world of lakes and rivers into the chi ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL
Argo and ThinkOrbital to launch first orbital mission using long-range X-ray imaging
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Argo Space Corp. and ThinkOrbital have announced a strategic partnership to launch the first-ever space mission featuring long-range, high-voltage X-ray imaging for space domain awareness (SDA). The ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Intuitive Machines wins funding to advance orbital logistics vehicle
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Intuitive Machines has secured a $9.8 million government contract to progress its Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) through Critical Design Review, the final engineering phase before manufacturing begi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab expands iQPS satellite network with successful Electron launch
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has completed its 69th Electron mission, successfully deploying another satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS). The launch marks t ... more
SPACEMART
China expands satellite internet network with second Long March 12 launch
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
China successfully launched a new batch of internet satellites on Monday using its Long March 12 rocket, further advancing the country's commercial space infrastructure. The launch occurred at ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar rover tire collaboration aims for deployment by 2029
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
ispace, inc. has signed an agreement with Bridgestone Corporation to jointly develop and evaluate tires for future small and medium-sized lunar rovers. The initiative aims to accelerate practical de ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black hole wave analysis refined using advanced WKB method
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Black holes, the most gravitationally extreme objects in the universe, emit space-time ripples called quasinormal modes when disturbed - vibrations that can be detected as gravitational waves. These ... more
SPACEMART
World's first Open RAN D2D LEO network to be built by MDA Space for EchoStar
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
EchoStar Corporation has chosen MDA Space as the prime contractor to develop the world's first 3GPP 5G-compliant low Earth orbit (LEO) direct-to-device (D2D) satellite constellation built on Open RA ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Webb reveals hidden galaxy populations in revisited deep field
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Webb has returned to the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field, providing astronomers with an unprecedented mid-infrared perspective of one of the most studied regions in the sky. Using nearly 100 hours of ... more

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MOON DAILY
China allocates fresh batch of lunar samples to domestic research institutions
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
China has approved the ninth round of lunar sample lending applications, distributing over 30 grams of moon material to 32 research teams across 25 institutions. These samples, retrieved by the Chan ... more
TECH SPACE
UAF satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Beyond the Shadow of a Black Hole
Austin TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
he first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 - 55 million light years from E ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 4, 2025
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon ended in failure after the government agency lost contact with the spacecraft one day after the launch in February and never regained communication despite extensive efforts. ... more
CYBER WARS
Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Satellites play a critical role in daily life, supporting everything from navigation and agriculture to communications and national defense. However, many orbiting assets remain vulnerable to cyber ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
DefendEye has announced the integration of Starlink Mini into its tube-launched autonomous AI-powered search drone system, delivering global satellite connectivity without reliance on cellular infra ... more
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MOON DAILY
Mapping lunar landscapes begins in Norway's fjords
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Alone in a secluded Norwegian fjord, three astronaut trainees pore over scientific plans crafted with lunar exploration in mind. Before stepping into the rugged terrain, they consult a tablet brimmi ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Earth's magnetic field could form even with a fully liquid core
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
A team of geophysicists has demonstrated that Earth's magnetic field could have originated even before the planet's solid inner core formed. The new research from ETH Zurich and SUSTech, China, addr ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Weather-tracking advances are revealing astonishing extremes of lightning
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to Kansas City, setting a new world record. "We call it megaflash lig ... more
EXO WORLDS
Sun dogs, other celestial effects could appear in alien skies
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around the moon, to bright spots called sun dogs on either side of the sun in a w ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Embry-Riddle Researchers Launch Rockets for a Deeper Look at Ionized Clouds That Disrupt Communications
Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Embry-Riddle researchers recently shot two 46-foot-tall rockets into clouds high in the Earth's atmosphere to learn more about the complex dynamics that affect critical communications and radar oper ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars
Washington (AFP) Aug 5, 2025
The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Sidus Space commissions autonomous SpacePilot system and activates LizzieSat-3 ADCS
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has successfully activated its proprietary SpacePilot software on the LizzieSat-3 satellite, enabling advanced autonomous guidance, navigation, and control capabilities. T ... more
MARSDAILY
Unique Martian sulfate points to recent thermal activity and mineral formation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
New research led by the SETI Institute has identified an unusual iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a previously unknown mineral, offering new insights into the planet's thermal and geochemical ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA administrator seeks plan to place nuclear reactor on moon
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025
Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator and secretary of transportation, wants to fast-track putting a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to a directive he sent out Thursday. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Giant rogue planets could host scaled-down planetary systems
London, UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
New findings from the University of St Andrews suggest that giant free-floating planets, unbound to any star, could form their own miniature planetary systems. Using data from the James Webb S ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
New survey charts hundreds of satellite galaxies orbiting dwarfs
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
A new astronomical survey led by Dartmouth College has identified 355 candidate satellite galaxies orbiting dwarf galaxy hosts - tripling the number of such systems previously studied. Of these, 264 ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Baby star blast warps its own disk in rare cosmic feedback loop
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Astronomers in Japan have identified a rare feedback loop in which a young star's explosive outflow has ricocheted back, striking and warping the very disk of gas and dust from which the star formed ... more
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TECH SPACE
What is NASA's Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy?
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Astronauts living and working on the Moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating satell ... more
ROBO SPACE
Training robots for planetary missions from Earth orbit
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
This summer, astronauts aboard the International Space Station directed a team of advanced robots through a simulated martian terrain in Germany, concluding the fourth and final session of ESA and D ... more
SPACEMART
Parsons and Globalstar advance satellite communications with successful European test
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
Parsons Corporation and Globalstar have reached a key milestone in the development of a joint commercial satellite solution, announcing the successful completion of a proof of concept across three E ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Russian space chief says agreed with NASA on ISS cooperation until 2028
Moscow (AFP) July 31, 2025
The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Thursday that he had agreed with his NASA counterpart during talks in the United States to extend the International Space Station's (ISS) operation until 2028. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 2, 2025
The four Crew-11 crew members joined seven other astronauts in the International Space Station early Saturday morning following a 15-hour journey from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... more
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