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September 23, 2025
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NASA Dragonfly Mission Advances Through Crucial Development and Testing Stages



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
NASA's Dragonfly mission has successfully cleared several major design, development, and testing milestones, keeping it on track for launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rotorcraft built at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), will journey to Saturn's moon Titan to conduct a three-year exploration of its surface. Following a six-year cruise, the aircraft will fly between diverse landing sites, carrying instruments designed to probe Titan's habitability and search ... read more

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SATNUS completes third NGWS flight campaign with autonomous systems integration
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
SATNUS has carried out its third flight test campaign for the Next Generation Weapon System (NGWS), marking significant progress toward the program's Phase 1B demonstrations. The trials centered on ... more
SPACEMART
SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
SFL Missions Inc. has secured a contract to build spacecraft bus units for three new HawkEye 360 satellite clusters, adding nine spacecraft to the company's expanding constellation for RF signal det ... more
TECH SPACE
Voyager debuts first space based multi cloud region to advance orbital data processing
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Voyager Technologies Inc. (NYSE: VOYG) has deployed Space Edge to the International Space Station, creating what it describes as the first multi-cloud region in orbit. The platform, launched Sept. 1 ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Comtech modem earns first sovereign certification for SES O3b mPOWER network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced that its software-defined SLM-5650B modem is the first sovereign-certified terminal to earn Government Terminal Certification (GTC) for ... more
EXO WORLDS
NASA Webb probes atmosphere scenarios for TRAPPIST-1 e
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are focusing on TRAPPIST-1 e, one of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby red dwarf star. Early results suggest the planet likely lost its o ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to re ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Simulations reveal origins of globular clusters and uncover hybrid star systems
London, UK (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Scientists have long debated the origins of globular clusters, the universe's ancient and densely packed stellar systems. Now, researchers at the University of Surrey, using advanced simulations, ha ... more
SPACEMART
China launches experimental satellites to enhance mobile space internet
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
China has deployed four experimental satellites into orbit as part of efforts to advance integrated space-based internet capabilities, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. ... more

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NASA Arcstone satellite and spectrometer begin active lunar calibration mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
Commissioning of NASA's Arcstone satellite and spectrometer has been completed, marking the transition to full scientific operations. Launched July 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare mission fr ... more
SPACEMART
Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
For much of the history of modern telecommunications, networks have been built from the ground up - literally. Fiber buried deep underground, towers rising skyward, microwave links bridging canyons - our entire expectation of coverage has been centered around what we can build and maintain on land. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA announces 10 new astronaut candidates
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2025
NASA announced 10 new astronaut candidates Monday following a rigorous selection process from more than 8,000 candidates. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA Prepares Artemis II Rocket with Crew Upgrades for Lunar Flight
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which will send four astronauts on a mission around the Moon next year, has been upgraded with new safety and performance enhancements. While stru ... more
MARSDAILY
Predicting Martian aurora to safeguard future explorers
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
Planetary scientists report progress in predicting when the Martian night sky will glow with green aurora, building on new visible-light images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rover ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black hole merger provides strongest evidence yet for Hawking area law
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, the LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration reported its clearest gravitational wave signal yet from a black hole merger, offering the most precise confir ... more
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TIME AND SPACE
Gravitational wave provides strongest test yet of Hawking and Kerr black hole theories
London, UK (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
Scientists have confirmed two landmark theories about black holes using the most precise gravitational wave detection ever recorded. The LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration reported the event, GW2501 ... more
TIME AND SPACE
How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Quantum computers are designed to tackle challenges that would take even the fastest supercomputers thousands or millions of years to resolve. But this raises a central paradox: how can researchers ... more
SPACEMART
Planet plans $300 million convertible notes offering maturing 2030
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) intends to offer $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 in a private Rule 144A placement to qualified institutional buyers, subject t ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
ICEYE unveils Gen4 satellite with expanded coverage and sharper SAR imaging
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
ICEYE has announced the commercial launch of its fourth-generation Gen4 satellites, designed to deliver the highest-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery available to the global market. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2025
A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed a critical component just the day before. A recent tsunami trigger ... more
DEMOCRACY
100 days later, US federal workers navigate post-Musk wreckage
Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2025
Roughly 100 days after Elon Musk's dramatic departure from the Trump White House, federal workers are still grappling with the lasting damage from his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). ... more
IRON AND ICE
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate. ... more
MARSDAILY
Volcanic sulfur gases may have warmed early Mars and supported potential life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
While the ancient Martian climate is still debated, new research indicates that volcanic emissions of sulfur gases could have created a warmer atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The study, publi ... more
IRON AND ICE
Cosmic glass in Australia reveals traces of massive asteroid strike
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Curtin University scientists have identified evidence of a giant asteroid impact hidden in tiny fragments of natural glass, known as tektites, found only in Australia. Tektites form when a spa ... more
EXO WORLDS
Molecular 'fossils' offer microscopic clues to the origins of life - but they take care to interpret
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life it ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Sun reverses decades-long decline and shows rising activity
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
The Sun, once thought to be heading for a historic period of quiet, has instead been growing more active since 2008, according to a new NASA study. Scientists had anticipated a prolonged minimum, bu ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
AI model predicts harmful solar winds with unprecedented accuracy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have built an artificial intelligence system capable of predicting solar wind speeds up to four days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. Their fin ... more
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Interstellar objects may hold key to accelerating giant planet growth around young stars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Interstellar objects such as 3I/ATLAS, when captured in the planet-forming discs of young stars, may serve as the building blocks of giant planets, offering a solution to a long-standing problem in ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gaia delivers first 3D fly through map of star forming regions in the Milky Way
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Scientists have produced the most detailed three-dimensional map yet of stellar nurseries within our galaxy, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. The new model reveals how massi ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Rare Einstein cross with central image uncovers dark matter halo
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Astronomers have identified an extraordinary Einstein Cross containing a fifth image, pointing to the presence of a massive halo of dark matter. The finding, led by an international team including R ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
The collision and merger of two neutron stars - the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars - are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be o ... more
ROBO SPACE
European team develops robotic mission for lunar lava cave exploration
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
A European research consortium has unveiled a mission concept designed to explore lava tunnels on the Moon using autonomous robots. These natural formations, which provide shielding from radiation a ... more
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