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AST SpaceMobile secures role on MDA SHIELD defense architectureLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 AST SpaceMobile has been selected for a prime contract position on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, program, placing its space-base ... more  
Slingshot to embed AI agent in US Space Force space warfare trainingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Slingshot Aerospace has secured a 27 million dollar contract to modernize how the US Space Force trains for conflict in orbit by embedding its TALOS AI agent into the service's Operational Test and ... more  
Stratolaunch secures major funding to scale hypersonic flight servicesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Stratolaunch has completed a significant capital raise to accelerate the growth of its hypersonic test and flight services business, adding Elliott Investment Management L.P. as a new investor along ... more  
Comtech wins multi-million dollar follow-on contract for civil space componentsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has received a follow-on space components award valued at more than 5 million dollars to support a major civil space exploration program in the United States. The aw ... more |
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NASA astronaut stuck in space for nine months retiresWashington, United States (AFP) Jan 21, 2026 A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space agency said Tuesday. ... more  
Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Quantum mechanics describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states, being in multiple places and configurations at once, encoded in a mathematical object called a ... more  
ExLabs and ChibaTech team up to land student CubeLanders on asteroid ApophisSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center to deliver university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis during its close a ... more 
Major equity deal backs Gilmour Space expansion of sovereign launch capabilitySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Gilmour Space Technologies has raised 217 million Australian dollars in private equity funding to accelerate the next phase of its sovereign space operations in Australia. The Series E round w ... more |
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Sentinel 2A trials reveal unexpected night sensing capabilityParis, France (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 After more than 10 years in orbit, the first Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite, Sentinel 2A, is still finding new ways to contribute to Earth observation as engineers push the mission beyond its origi ... more |
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Teledyne detector arrays power NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat X-ray missionSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Teledyne Technologies has confirmed that its Space Imaging division has successfully deployed Speedster HyViSI Hybrid Visible Silicon Imager focal plane arrays ... more  
Keysight joins Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN project to advance 5G satellite NTNLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Keysight Technologies is collaborating on the Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator to explore 5G non-terrestrial network capabilities using software-defined satellite technology in both ground and in ... more  
Energy learning algorithm boosts complex UAV swarm taskingTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 With unmanned aerial vehicles now common across modern military and security operations, planners face increasing pressure to assign heterogeneous drone swarms to complex mission sets without wastin ... more  
2025 was third hottest year on record: EU, US expertsBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 14, 2026 The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, US researchers and EU climate monitors said Wednesday. ... more |
 
Perovskite betavoltaic cell sets record efficiency using carbon 14 sourceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 A research team at DGIST has developed a perovskite based self powered betavoltaic battery that achieves what they report as the worlds highest conversion efficiency for this class of device while m ... more  |
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AI helps fuel new era of medical self-testingLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2026 Beyond smart watches and rings, artificial intelligence is being used to make self-testing for major diseases more readily available - from headsets that detect early signs of Alzheimer's to an iris-scanning app that helps spot cancer. ... more 
Galactic Energy conducts sixth offshore Ceres 1 mission from Yellow Sea platformBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Galactic Energy has carried out its sixth sea based mission of the Ceres 1 solid fuel launcher, adding four more spacecraft to the Tianqi commercial internet of things constellation. The lates ... more 
China tests Long March 12B reusable first stage at JiuquanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp has carried out a static firing test of the first stage of its new Long March 12B reusable carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northw ... more 
GE and Lockheed validate compact rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missilesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have completed a series of engine tests that demonstrate the viability of a liquid fueled rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missile applications. The work ma ... more |
 
Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may contain twice ... more 
Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moonsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath ... more 
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior detailsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospher ... more  
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systemsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Astronomers have assembled the most detailed view so far of planetary systems in a long elusive stage between their birth and maturity, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ... more |
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Mercury and Earth chorus waves show shared plasma behavior across magnetospheresTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team has shown that natural electromagnetic chorus waves, long known in Earths magnetosphere, also occur in Mercurys much weaker magnetosphere with strikingly similar frequency beha ... more 
It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today's techCollege Station, TX (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone of technologies that shape our lives, from lasers and microchips to quantu ... more 
Heavy impurities reveal new link in quantum matter theoryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A new theoretical framework from physicists at Heidelberg University connects two long standing views of how a single exotic particle behaves inside a quantum many body system of fermions. The work ... more 
Electron ordering mapped in quantum material with cryogenic 4D-STEMTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2026 Electronic order in quantum materials often arises through intricate, non-uniform patterns that shift across space. A well-known example is the charge density wave (CDW), an ordered electronic state ... more |
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Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecastsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for predicting futur ... more |
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China Sky Eye tracks binary-triggered fast radio burst activityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 An international team of astronomers has obtained the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate in binary stellar systems rather than from isolated objects. The work cen ... more 
JAXA taps ispace for lunar debris mitigation and disposal studyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 ispace inc has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to conduct an analysis on how to limit harmful space debris in lunar orbit and manage spacecraft end of life on the Moon as act ... more 
China starts large scale production of T1000 carbon fiberTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 In North China's Shanxi province, a region long known for coal production, researchers and engineers are now converting the once primarily fuel-oriented resource into high performance carbon fiber f ... more  
Human taught tactile control lets robots grasp diverse objectsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 When humans pick up everyday items such as fragile eggs or slippery metal cups, they instinctively adjust their grip using tactile feedback to avoid breaking or dropping them. In contrast, enabling ... more |
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