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September 03, 2025
TECH SPACE
New study links satellite discharges to electron buildup in orbit



Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
For the first time, researchers have established a direct correlation between the frequency of spacecraft electrical discharges and the number of electrons in the surrounding space environment. The findings could inform future methods of protecting satellites from potentially damaging effects. Spacecraft environment discharges (SEDs) are short-lived electrical breakdowns that can harm sensitive electronics and disrupt communications. They result when electrons accumulate on spacecraft surfaces, cr ... read more

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TECH SPACE
Loft Federal wins NASA task order for fault tolerant RISC V flight computer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Loft Orbital Federal has secured a NASA Flight Opportunities task order to integrate, launch, and operate an on-orbit mission supporting the Fault Tolerant RISC-V Flight Computer with Coprocessor Su ... more
TECH SPACE
Games that are truly out of this world
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2025
The universe, a boundless source of inspiration, has always ignited our imagination. In recent years, video games have emerged as a captivating medium to explore the cosmos, offering experiences that are truly out of this world. ... more
VSAT NEWS
NorthBase strengthens Infostellar StellarStation network with Finnish site
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Infostellar Inc. has expanded its StellarStation cloud platform through a new partnership with NorthBase, a Finnish provider of ground station services. The collaboration, formalized under a Memoran ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awareness
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
MSBAI (Microsurgeonbot Inc.) has received a Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract worth $1.2 million to advance its OrbitGuard hybrid-intelligence system for space domain awareness. The Department of Def ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Metop SGA1 begins delivering atmospheric data weeks after launch
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Less than three weeks after its 13 August launch, the Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite is already transmitting data from two of its six instruments. Early readings from the Microwav ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA Scientists Map Plant Productivity with Data from Ocean Satellite
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2025
NASA scientists have developed a new set of tools to monitor plant growth under various conditions throughout the growing season. The hope is that land managers could use these tools to detect sudde ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Scientists track lightning "pollution" in real time using NASA satellite
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 02, 2025
Picture this: You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you pr ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Pixxel expands Firefly fleet advancing global hyperspectral satellite imaging
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Pixxel has added three new Firefly satellites to orbit aboard SpaceX's NAOS Mission, doubling its commercial constellation to six. The company says this expansion delivers humanity's first daily, hi ... more

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NASA opens student competition for 2026 human lander innovations
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
NASA has launched the 2026 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC), inviting student teams across the United States to propose new solutions for advancing human landing system technologies. The initiative sup ... more
EXO WORLDS
Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA astrophysics space missions to search for lif ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Magnetic fields in the young universe revealed as incredibly faint
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
The first magnetic fields that emerged after the Universe's birth may have been billions of times weaker than the pull of a refrigerator magnet, with intensities comparable to the magnetism created ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Enhanced CHARA Array to Gain Full Spectrum Observing Power with NSF Grant
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
A $1.39 million award from the National Science Foundation will significantly upgrade Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array, enabling observations across the entire visible and near-infrared spectrum. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Hypervelocity white dwarfs traced to explosive stellar mergers
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists have identified a clear origin for hypervelocity white dwarfs - stellar remnants racing through space at more than 2000 km/s. The resea ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Massive stars in low metal galaxies frequently form binaries
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Astronomers have confirmed that massive stars in galaxies with low metal content often exist in binary systems, much like their counterparts in the Milky Way. An international team of seventy resear ... more
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GPS NEWS
Bulgaria won't probe suspected Russian GPS jamming of EU chief plane: PM
Sofia, Bulgaria (AFP) Sept 2, 2025
Bulgaria will not open an investigation into the GPS jamming that hit a plane carrying EU chief chief Ursula von der Leyen as it readied to land in the Balkan nation, its prime minister said Tuesday. ... more
TECH SPACE
Doom plays in orbit as Intuition-1 satellite proves versatility of Polish tech
Gliwice, Poland (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
KP Labs has shown that satellites can do more than science alone. Engineers from Gliwice successfully ran the 1993 video game Doom aboard the Intuition-1 satellite, using the in-house Leopard Data P ... more
TIME AND SPACE
A Sharper Image of the Early Universe
Medford MA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a bet ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions
London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detects 128 black hole collisions, doubling the known gravitational-wave events and advancing our understanding of the Universe. An international team of researc ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Gloabl team expands gravitational wave catalogue with 128 new detections
London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
An international network of gravitational wave observatories has more than doubled the number of known cosmic collisions, detecting 128 new mergers of black holes and neutron stars. The results, pub ... more
SPACEWAR
NUVIEW wins $5M Pentagon funding boost for orbital LiDAR project
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
NUVIEW has secured an additional $5 million award from the Department of Defense's National Security Innovation Capital program to accelerate development of its space-based LiDAR technology. The fun ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NISAR clears on orbit checks and readies for science data flow
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
After its July 30 launch, the NASA-ISRO NISAR radar mission cleared preliminary health checks and on Aug 15 unfurled its 39-foot 12-meter reflector, then powered up both L-band and S-band SARs. Orbi ... more
SPACEWAR
Space Kinetic joins DraperSPARX partnership to advance national security technologies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Draper has added Space Kinetic Corp. to its DraperSPARX program, an initiative that accelerates emerging technologies from startups and small businesses to address pressing national security challen ... more
SPACEWAR
Elbit Systems JUPITER camera deployed on NAOS satellite with OHB Italia partnership
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Elbit Systems has confirmed the successful launch of its JUPITER space camera aboard the National Advanced Optical System (NAOS) satellite, built by OHB Italia. The spacecraft lifted off from Vanden ... more
EARLY EARTH
Earth's chemistry settled early but later collision likely delivered water for life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Earths chemical make-up reached completion within the first three million years of the Solar Systems formation, according to a new study by the University of Berns Institute of Geological Sciences. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Circle versus rectangle: Finding 'Earth 2.0' may be easier using a new telescope shape
Troy NY (SPX) Sep 02, 2025
The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as l ... more
ENERGY TECH
AI systems developed to improve fusion reactor safety and performance
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
A research team led by Prof. Sun Youwen at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled two artificial intelligence systems designed to enhance the stabil ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on
Liverpool (AFP) Aug 31, 2025
Britain's energy operator is betting on an age-old technology to future-proof its grid, as the power plants that traditionally helped stabilise it are closed and replaced by renewable energy systems. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Clues from Butterfly Nebula dust advance knowledge of rocky planet origins
London UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Clues about the formation of Earth-like planets have emerged from the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, where astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA to probe its dusty heart. The combined ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons back to Sun
Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2025
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst fr ... more
EXO WORLDS
Surprising carbon dioxide rich disk challenges planet theory
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
A team led by Stockholm University has identified a young star surrounded by a disk unusually dominated by carbon dioxide, defying current theories of planet formation. Using the James Webb Space Te ... more
MARSDAILY
Mars mantle holds fragments from ancient giant impacts study finds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Rocky material buried deep within Mars has been traced to colossal impacts 4.5 billion years ago, according to new findings from NASA's retired InSight lander. The discovery points to lumps of mantl ... more
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