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August 13, 2025
MOON DAILY
China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial



Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
China has successfully carried out its first integrated landing and takeoff trial of a crewed lunar lander, marking a milestone in its manned lunar exploration program. The test took place Wednesday at a facility in Huailai county, Hebei province, the China Manned Space Agency confirmed Thursday. The spacecraft, called Lanyueeart - meaning embracing the mooneart - is composed of a landing module and a propulsion module. It is purpose-built for ferrying two astronauts between lunar orbit and the su ... read more

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SPACEMART
New internet satellites expand China's orbital network
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
China has placed another batch of internet satellites into orbit, marking the third deployment in just over a week. The latest mission, launched Monday evening from the Hainan International Commerci ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Space-ng launches Sol3 computer vision kit for spacecraft developers
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
Space-ng has introduced a rugged, low-cost Hardware Development Kit (HDK) for its space-qualified Sol3 Vision System, alongside a free Software Development Kit (SDK) for evaluation, academic researc ... more
TECH SPACE
Is This AI or Human Text? Find the Differences
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2025
With the rise of generative AI, almost all industries have been disrupted. From marketing to education, if you are dealing with texts, you have seen the rapid shift. The advent of new and fast techn ... 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
Voyager expands AI radar capabilities with EMSI acquisition
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Voyager Technologies [NYSE: VOYG] has acquired California-based ElectroMagnetic Systems, Inc. (EMSI), a leader in AI-driven automated target recognition and intelligence analytics for space-based ra ... more
SPACEMART
Muon Space launches MuSat XL for advanced LEO missions with Hubble Network as debut customer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Muon Space has introduced its most capable spacecraft to date, the MuSat XL, a 500 kg-class satellite platform engineered for high-demand low Earth orbit missions. Hubble Network will be the first c ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Northrop Grumman speeds innovation in solid rocket motor development with second SMART Demo success
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Northrop Grumman has completed its second full-scale static firing of a new solid rocket motor under the Solid Motor Annual Rocket Technology Demonstrator (SMART Demo) program, achieving the milesto ... 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

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IRON AND ICE
Hera spacecraft tests asteroid tracking with distant Otero and Kellyday observations
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Hera has captured its first asteroid images, targeting (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday during its cruise through the main asteroid belt. The distant, faint detections tested the spacecraft's Aster ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Common Mistakes in Video Transcription: How to Avoid Them
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
Video transcription is a vital process that allows you to a href="https://any2text.com/video-to-text">convert video to text /a>, making it more accessible and usable for a wide audience. However, i ... more
EXO WORLDS
Hints emerge of giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Astronomers using the NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope have gathered strong evidence pointing to a giant planet circling Alpha Centauri A, one of the Sun-like stars in the closest stellar sys ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Paperclip probe could journey to nearby black hole within a century
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
It may sound like pure science fiction - a spacecraft no heavier than a paperclip racing toward a black hole at near-light speed - but astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University believes it cou ... more
EXO WORLDS
Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ... 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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
NASA Hubble captures sharpest view yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
A team of astronomers has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the clearest image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, enabling the most precise size estimates so far. The icy nucleus may mea ... 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
SPACE MEDICINE
Astronaut sinus troubles common in spaceflight Houston study finds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Sinus and congestion issues are a frequent challenge for astronauts, according to new findings from Houston Methodist. A study led by Dr. Masayoshi Takashima reviewed 754 medical incidents among 71 ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
GSI Biophysics experiment to study brain organoids in ISS microgravity mission
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
A GSI/FAIR research project has been cleared for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2026 after approval from the German Space Agency at DLR. The HippoBox experiment will fly on the C ... more
MOON DAILY
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies at 97
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 8, 2025
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois, his family announced. He was 97. ... 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
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA contracts Impulse Space for studies on cost effective orbital transfer solutions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
NASA has chosen Impulse Space to prepare two orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) service studies aimed at identifying more affordable ways to deliver spacecraft to challenging orbital destinations. The w ... 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
Intuitive Machines to Acquire KinetX Expanding Role in Deep Space Navigation and Mars Relay Services
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
Intuitive Machines has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arizona-based KinetX, an aerospace company with more than three decades of experience in deep space navigation, systems engineering, g ... more
MARSDAILY
Martian fractures reveal ancient forces and icy flows
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
In a new release from the European Space Agency, Mars Express has revisited the western end of Acheron Fossae, a striking system of deep fissures on Mars shaped by ancient geological upheaval and la ... more
MARSDAILY
SpaceX agrees to take Italian experiments to Mars
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments on its Starship megarocket during planned future missions to Mars, according to a new deal announced on Thursday. ... more
MARSDAILY
Perseverance Rover Delivers Most Detailed Mars Panorama Yet
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
NASA's Perseverance rover has produced one of its clearest panoramas to date, revealing a striking view of the Martian landscape from a site known as Falbreen. The mosaic, built from 96 images taken ... more
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MOON DAILY
NASA launches second phase of moon recycling competition
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2025
NASA is launching the second phase of its moon recycling competition to clean up trash in space. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Comet water analysis strengthens link to Earth origins
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
New research using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed that water in comet 12P/Pons-Brooks closely matches the composition of Earth's oceans, bolstering theories tha ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA opens next round in Moon recycling challenge
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
NASA has launched Phase 2 of its LunaRecycle Challenge, inviting U.S. innovators to create systems for recycling trash generated during deep space missions. The goal is to convert materials such as ... more
IRON AND ICE
Destructive cosmic airbursts likely more common than previously believed
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Touchdown airburstseart - a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kindeart - remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritu ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA to unveil last piece of hardware for the Artemis II Orion mission
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2025
NASA is ready to show off its final piece of space flight hardware for the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II mission. ... more



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