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September 29, 2025
ROCKET SCIENCE
Northrop Grumman Hypersonic Navigation System Exceeds Rocket Test Milestones



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Northrop Grumman's Advanced Hypersonic Technology Inertial Measurement Unit (AHT IMU) has surpassed expectations in its third major test, this time onboard a sounding rocket. The trial confirmed the unit's ability to withstand extreme g-forces, altitudes, and velocities beyond projected limits. The navigation system demonstrated reliable operation in GPS-denied environments, validating its role in enabling precision targeting at hypersonic speeds. The ruggedized IMU maintained functionality while ... read more

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TECH SPACE
Teledyne Labtech and Bangor University advance Welsh space cooling technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Teledyne Labtech is leading a Welsh effort to rethink thermal management for spacecraft electronics through the Advanced Thermal Management for Space Electronics project, developed with Bangor Unive ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA seeks student solutions for lunar lander life support technologies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
NASA has launched the 2026 Human Lander Challenge, inviting U.S.-based university students to propose fresh concepts for life support and environmental systems vital to long-duration spaceflight. Th ... more
SPACEWAR
Germany vows defence against Russia in drone warfare and in space
Berlin (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
Germany said Thursday it would step up its defences - from drone warfare to outer space - at a time of growing tensions between Russia and NATO while the Ukraine war grinds on. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Preliminary radar images from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission reveal the extraordinary capabilities of the most advanced Earth-observing radar satellite ever launched. The spa ... more
SPACEWAR
Dream Chaser spaceplane set for first flight with expanded defense and commercial roles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Sierra Space announced it is advancing its Dream Chaser spaceplane toward a first free-flyer demonstration flight, with a launch planned for late 2026. The test mission will validate critical techno ... more
SPACEMART
Planet expands satellite production with new Berlin facility
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Planet Labs GmbH has announced plans to establish a new satellite manufacturing facility in Berlin, marking a major expansion of its European operations. The site will focus on producing next-genera ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
NRL coronagraph on NOAA SWFO L1 will enhance space weather forecasts
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Compact Coronagraph-2 launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT on September 24 as the primary instrument on NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory from NASA's Ke ... more
TECH SPACE
Welsh project aims to reinvent space cooling with laser textured graphite
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Fri Sep 26, 2025
Teledyne Labtech and Bangor University have launched the Advanced Thermal Management for Space Electronics (ATMS) program to address heat removal in spacecraft, with support from Airbus Endeavr, a j ... more

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MARSDAILY
Wind driven rovers show promise for low cost Mars missions
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2025
Recent tests suggest that swarms of spherical tumbleweed rovers could offer an affordable and efficient way to explore Mars. Experiments conducted in a wind tunnel and on natural terrain show that t ... more
TECH SPACE
York and SDA prove space to ground laser link for Transport Layer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
York Space Systems announced a successful space-to-ground optical laser communications demonstration with the U.S. Space Development Agency, advancing the Transport Layer that aims to deliver resili ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX, ULA launch rockets from Cape Canaveral
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2025
Cape Canaveral was the site of two successful rocket launches Thursday morning, one from SpaceX and another from United Launch Alliance. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space: Framatome and ENEA sign MoU to explore advanced technological solutions for designing lunar nuclear fission reactors
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Framatome and ENEA, Italy's Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development, have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore advanced technologies for lunar surface nucl ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
German military satellites to fly on Ariane 6 under new Arianespace contract
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Arianespace has secured a contract to launch two SATCOMBw Stufe 3 satellites for the German Armed Forces using Ariane 6 heavy-lift rockets from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The new satellite ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
U.S. and U.K. execute joint satellite maneuver in milestone space operation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
U.S. Space Command and U.K. Space Command completed their first coordinated satellite maneuver from September 4 to 12, marking a significant advance in allied on-orbit operations. The mission demons ... more
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TECTONICS
Mantle heterogeneity mapped at unprecedented fine scale
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
A Japanese-led research team has provided the first direct measurement of the spatial scale of chemical heterogeneity in the Earth's upper mantle, revealing that mantle plume-driven variability exte ... more
INTERNET SPACE
New software tool opens access to spacecraft camera design
London, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
A newly developed open-source software package promises to make advanced spacecraft camera modelling accessible to a much wider research community. The tool, known as SIMply, can replicate how light ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA awards Blue Origin new lunar mission to deliver VIPER rover in 2027
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
NASA has selected Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, for a new Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order, assigning the company an option to deliver the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar ... more
MARSDAILY
Mars polar vortex traps cold and builds seasonal ozone layer
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
A rare look inside the wintry north polar vortex of Mars has revealed that conditions are far colder than outside its boundary, and that the months of complete darkness allow ozone to accumulate in ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Record breaking gravitational waves confirm Hawking theory and reveal giant black hole merger
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
For millions of years, two massive black holes circled each other until, in a split second, they merged at near light speed. The collision unleashed gravitational waves so strong and clear that rese ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Voyager selects Vivace to build primary structure for next generation Starlab
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Voyager Technologies Inc. NYSE: VOYG, the majority holder of Starlab Space LLC, has chosen Vivace Corporation to manufacture Starlab's primary structure. The next generation, AI enabled commercial s ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Themis reusable rocket demonstrator stands ready in Sweden
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
The European Space Agency's first full-scale reusable rocket demonstrator, Themis, is now positioned on its launch pad at the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. The milestone marks the start o ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Terran Orbital finalizes Tranche 1 satellite bus delivery for Lockheed Martin
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Terran Orbital Corporation has completed delivery of all 42 satellite bus platforms for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer program. The spacecraft, built in partnership with Lo ... more
SPACEWAR
Maintaining US space dominance requires rapid and reliable delivery of new systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Winning in space depends on accelerating the way capabilities are developed and delivered, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told thousands attending the Air, Space and Cyber Conference ... more
EXO WORLDS
Spirals in young star disk reveal planet formation process
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured the motion of spiral structures in the disk of dust and gas surrounding the young star IM Lup, offering new ev ... more
EXO WORLDS
White dwarf consumes icy Pluto-like planet fragment in deep space
London, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
University of Warwick astronomers have identified the chemical signature of an icy, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star. The finding offers strong evidence that volati ... more
IRON AND ICE
Traces of life detected in Finnish crater shed light on origins of life on Earth
London, Canada (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
An international team of scientists, including Western University's Gordon Osinski, has for the first time dated the emergence of microorganisms inside a meteorite crater, demonstrating that life de ... more
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MILPLEX
Razor's Edge raises $560 million to scale defense and aerospace technology firms
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2025
Razor's Edge has announced the close of its fourth investment fund, securing $560 million in commitments, surpassing its $400 million target. The new fund increases the firm's total assets under man ... more
SPACEMART
Chinese IoT satellite constellation completes first phase for global communications
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 26, 2025
A Chinese satellite network dedicated to Internet of Things (IoT) services has achieved global surface coverage, excluding polar regions, with the deployment of its first-phase constellation of 64 s ... 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
MOON DAILY
Lunar soil melted into construction bricks by Chinese research team
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
At the 2025 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, researchers from China's Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) presented a prototype machine capable of transforming lunar soil into construct ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid strike confirmed as cause of Silverpit Crater in North Sea
London, UK (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
New research has confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, buried beneath the southern North Sea, was created by a hypervelocity impact about 43 to 46 million years ago. The findings resolve a long-runni ... more
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