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December 09, 2025
EXO WORLDS
The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nearly all life. The study centers on Tersicoccus phoenicis, a microbe detected in high-grade cleanrooms used by NASA and the European Space Agency to prepare spacecraft hardware. The team found that Tersicoccus phoenicis can depress its metabolism so strongly that standard methods for detecting living cel ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL
Lodestar Space wins SECP support to advance AI satellite awareness system
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Lodestar Space has secured funding through the UK Space Agency's Space Ecosystem Commercialisation Programme, delivered by Space South Central, to accelerate work on its on-orbit sensing system Mith ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Vast spinning galaxy filament mapped in nearby Universe
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures observed so far, a thin string of hydrogen-rich galaxies embedded in a spinning c ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Mars clocks run ahead of Earth by microseconds each day
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have produced the first detailed calculation of how fast time passes on Mars compared with Earth, providing a parameter that future h ... more
TIME AND SPACE
KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino region
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Neutrinos are among the most abundant matter particles in the Universe, yet they interact so weakly that they are difficult to detect and study. The Standard Model includes three neutrino types, but ... more
OUTER PLANETS
SwRI links Uranus radiation belt mystery to solar storm driven waves
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
SwRI scientists report that a reanalysis of Voyager 2 measurements suggests a powerful solar storm may explain why Uranus hosts an electron radiation belt far more intense than expected. They propos ... more
MARSDAILY
Martian butterfly crater reveals low angle impact and buried lava history
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
ESA's Mars Express orbiter has observed an impact crater in Mars's northern lowlands whose shape resembles a butterfly, created when an incoming space rock struck the surface at a shallow angle. The ... more
MOON DAILY
Astrobotic lunar surface sensor to track cislunar traffic and security
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Astrobotic has secured a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award to develop Clavius-S, a visible-band imaging sensor designed to detect and track spacecraft in low lunar orbit from the ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Sea based rocket net recovery platform enters service for Chinese reusable launchers
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
China has taken delivery of its first sea based platform designed to recover rockets using a net system, adding a key element to national plans for reusable launch vehicles. The vessel, named ... more

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Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems have merged to form Applied Aerospace and Defense, a single supplier focused on precision hardware and systems for aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehi ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Outage Prevention from Orbit: Why Utilities Are Turning to Satellites and Geospatial Analytics
Perrysburg OH (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
Utilities and local energy distribution companies (LDCs) face ongoing challenges in managing their infrastructure. Keeping track of power lines, pipelines, energy plant emissions, and other assets is essential ... more
ROBO SPACE
NASA to test commercial robotic arm in orbit to advance in space construction
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission will support developm ... more
TECH SPACE
Power grid agreement to supply energy for Loft Orbital satellites
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Loft Orbital and Star Catcher Industries have signed what is described as one of the first commercial energy purchase agreements for space operations. The deal allows Loft to buy power from Star Cat ... more
TECH SPACE
Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can rival the ne ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Isolation and bed rest volunteers sought for future spaceflight research
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
DLR and ESA are recruiting volunteers for two human research campaigns at the :envihab aerospace medicine facility in Cologne that will simulate key aspects of long duration missions beyond low Eart ... more
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DRAGON SPACE
Wenchang spaceport hits record cadence with double-digit launches in 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
China's Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site has reached a new milestone in 2025, logging its 10th orbital mission of the year and achieving double-digit annual launches for the first time since operatio ... more
SPACEWAR
NRO extends HawkEye 360 deal for tactical RF data and analytics support
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec v, 2025
HawkEye 360 has received 23 months of dedicated funding from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Commercial Systems Program Office to expand its role in providing commercial radio-frequ ... more
SPACEWAR
Portuguese Air Force secures first directly owned SAR satellite from ICEYE
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
The Portuguese Air Force has signed a contract with ICEYE for the direct procurement of a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, marking the first time the service will own a satellite outright and sig ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Aechelon links Vantor 3D terrain with Orbion SkyBeam to boost ICEYE SAR AI
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Aechelon Technology has completed a proof-of-concept integration of Vantor's 3D Operational Terrain into its Project Orbion SkyBeam AI exploitation system, using ICEYE's space-based synthetic apertu ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
EarthCARE mission tightens cloud and aerosol impacts in next-generation climate models
Paris (ESA) Dec 08, 2025
True to its promise, the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite is now being used to directly quantify how clouds and airborne particles reshape the balance between incoming sunlight and outgoi ... more
TECH SPACE
Designing Modern Minimalist Logos with CapCut PC's AI Logo Generator
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
A characteristic of contemporary branding is the use of a minimalist logo. They are not complicated, unnecessary, complex, or hard to recognize, so they are ideal to use in start-ups, digital brands ... more
TECH SPACE
X-MAT introduces X-FOAM: A game-changing ceramic foam for extreme environments
Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 01, 2025
X-MAT has announced the release of X-FOAM, a 1,300°C ceramic foam engineered for use in harsh environments demanding high thermal insulation and structural performance. ... more
SPACEMART
Private capital targets mission-critical software power and platforms in new space economy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Axle Point Capital and Balerion Space Ventures are directing new private capital into companies that build core infrastructure for the expanding U.S. space and defense economy, from mission software ... more
TECH SPACE
How Real-Time Follower Tracking Transforms Modern Social Media Analytics
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Having a strong grasp of how your prospective customers behave is a key way you can increase your chances for being successful on social media. Most marketers will look at information (statistics) that actually shows how people are behaving rather than just going off of their own preconceived ideas. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Neutron Hungry Hippo fairing completes qualification ahead of first launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Rocket Lab Corporation has qualified the captive Hungry Hippo fairing for its Neutron launch vehicle and is sending the structure to Virginia for integration ahead of the rocket's debut mission. The ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Gravitational lens time delays refine Hubble constant
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Astronomers are testing a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding by using time delays in gravitationally lensed images of distant quasars, in an effort to clarify the long-standing te ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Record gamma ray burst traced to dusty massive host galaxy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Gamma ray bursts rank among the most energetic explosions known, usually flashing and fading within seconds or minutes, but on 2 July 2025 astronomers detected GRB 250702B, a source that produced re ... more
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Nova images capture complex stellar blast behavior
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
An international group of astronomers led by Texas Tech University assistant professor Elias Aydi published a paper titled Multiple outflows and delayed ejections revealed by early imaging of novae ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New island of inversion found in proton neutron symmetric molybdenum nuclei
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
For decades, nuclear physicists have known that so called islands of inversion mark regions of the nuclear chart where standard shell structure breaks down and magic numbers vanish in favor of stron ... more
ROBO SPACE
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space Station
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more
EXO WORLDS
RISTRETTO spectrograph cleared for Proxima b atmospheric hunt
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
The RISTRETTO project at the University of Geneva has reached a key stage, with several core elements of its high-precision spectrograph now prototyped and tested for observations of the nearby exop ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
ArkEdge boosts 6U micro-satellite fleet with three-satellite AE5R launch
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2025 - ArkEdge Space Inc., a Tokyo-based space technology company that designs, builds, and operates micro-satellite constellations, has launched three new 6U-class satelli ... more
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