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August 29, 2025
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX sets record with 30th Falcon 9 spaceflight



Washington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025
SpaceX set a record with its 30th flight featuring Falcon 9 booster, B1067 on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center. The Starlink mission 10-11 placed another 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit; more than 1,800 of these satellites have been launched across 74 missions in 2025. The booster landed its 30th landing coming down at sea on the SpaceX drone ship "a Shortfall of Gravitas" about 8.5 minutes after launch. The previous missions for B1067 were 18 batches of Starlink ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX answers critics with successful Starship test flight
South Padre Island, United States (AFP) Aug 27, 2025
SpaceX's Starship megarocket roared into the skies Tuesday on its tenth test flight, turning in a strong performance after a series of fiery failures had begun to cast doubt on its future. T ... more
EXO WORLDS
JWST observes planetary building blocks in Butterfly Nebula
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula. ... more
SPACEMART
Aerospacelab secures 94M EUR to expand satellite production and development
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Aerospacelab has closed an extended Series B funding round worth 94 million EUR (110 million USD), strengthening its industrial roadmap and positioning as a leading European satellite manufacturer. ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
York delivers full 21 satellite payload for Space Development Agency Tranche 1 launch
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
York Space Systems has shipped its final spacecraft for the upcoming Tranche 1 Transport Layer mission, completing delivery of all 21 satellites that will constitute the launch payload. The launch w ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Next generation CapLink Array expands missile defense and satellite communication capabilities
Chandler AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Assured Space Access Technologies Inc has introduced the CapLink Array, a new phased array antenna system engineered to enhance missile defense radar missions and space-based communications. The sys ... more
CHIP TECH
Autonomous robot lab accelerates search for advanced quantum dots
Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Researchers at North Carolina State University have introduced Rainbow, a fully automated multi-robot laboratory that discovers high-performance quantum dots at unprecedented speed. The system merge ... more
MOON DAILY
Solar System Internet Achieves Breakthrough DTN Edge Processing Test on Lunar Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
In a milestone for interplanetary communications, Lonestar Data Holdings confirmed the successful test of the Solar System Internet's Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) aboard its lunar data center missio ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Mitsubishi Electric to Lead JAXA Fund Project on Next Generation Solar Cells for Satellites
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 2, 2025
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) has been chosen as a representative organization under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund for the initiative "Development of Domestic Solar Cells, Cover Glass, ... more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab marks milestone with 70th Electron launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2025
Rocket Lab Corporation has achieved its 70th successful Electron mission, underscoring the rocket's status as the world's most frequently launched small orbital vehicle and reinforcing the company's ... more
SPACEWAR
SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space on Thursday night carrying the US military's secretive X-37B drone. The rocket successfully launched at 11:50 pm (0350 GMT on Friday), according t ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space Machines finalizes Scintilla propulsion engine for Optimus Viper
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Space Machines Company has announced the completion of its in-house Scintilla propulsion engine, designed to power the Optimus Viper platform for rapid orbital manoeuvring and space domain awareness ... more
SPACEWAR
Space Force establishes Systems Delta 85 to strengthen space defense integration
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Space Systems Command has officially activated Systems Delta 85, a new organization designed to unify acquisition and operational support for space defense missions. The command and activation cerem ... more
TECH SPACE
Survey outlines advances and hurdles for orbital edge computing systems
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
A team from the Space-based Intelligence Laboratory at the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has published a detailed review of orbital edge computing (OEC), ... more
SPACEMART
Nullspace secures 2.5M seed funding to advance RF and quantum simulation software
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Nullspace, a deep tech company creating next-generation electromagnetic simulation software, has raised $2.5 million in seed financing. The round was led by Fathom Fund with participation from Golde ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


MISSILE DEFENSE
CerraCap backs Space Kinetic to accelerate space superiority and missile defense
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
CerraCap Ventures has invested in Space Kinetic Corp., a cleared national security innovator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The move aligns with CerraCap's push to speed space defense technologies and bolster the United States strategic edge as space becomes increasingly contested ... more
SPACEWAR
BlackSky expands non Earth imaging partnership with HEO under new seven figure contract
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. has signed a seven figure Gen 2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully automated low latency non Earth imaging services for defense, intelligenc ... more
SPACEMART
Dynamic satellite design advanced through Space RCO industry forum
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2025
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office convened its Agile Satellite Industry Engagement Day on July 30, bringing 13 selected industry participants together for intensive technical dialogue on next-gene ... more
SPACEMART
Precision CNC for High-Speed Aerospace Impellers
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2025
In aerospace engineering, impellers play an important role in high-performance propulsion and fluid systems, which have complicated geometry-usually with twisted blades, variable chord lengths and complex hub profiles. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 27, 2025
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday morning, adding another 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. ... more
MARSDAILY
Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2025
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA seeks volunteers to track Artemis II space mission
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 27, 2025
NASA said it's seeking volunteers to help track its Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the moon and back. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's Artemis II lunar science operations to inform future missions
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025


NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the Moon and back, will advance the agency's goal to land astronauts at the Moon's south polar region and w ... more

OUTER PLANETS
Fresh twist to mystery of Jupiter's core
London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist - as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
ESA Jupiter probe ready for Venus flyby to get some gravity juice.
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 27, 2025
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed its communications system. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New model shows how collapsing matter and voids shape cosmic evolution
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A University of Queensland researcher has developed a mathematical framework that incorporates collapsing regions of matter and expanding cosmic voids to explain the universe's evolution in greater ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Using exoplanets to study dark matter
Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025


More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside ... more

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AEROSPACE
India to develop fighter jet engines with French company
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 23, 2025
India is working with a French company to develop and manufacture fighter jet engines in the country, New Delhi's defence minister said. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in May approved the pr ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
First atmospheric data collected by Japans new GOSAT GW satellite
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 25, 2025
The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), together with the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), has confirmed successful init ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Massive binary star system confirmed in Milky Way cluster
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory has taken the sharpest look yet at one of the heaviest pairs of stars in our galaxy, known as NGC 3603-A1. Using previously unpubli ... more
EXO WORLDS
Model brings clarity to water rich exoplanets called steam worlds
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert-essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most com ... more
IRON AND ICE
Ceres once held deep energy reserves that may have supported life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research h ... more
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