Washington DC (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California, who was awarded a reimbursable Space Act Agreement to sustain and maintain the robotic platform aboard the International Space Station. As the agency returns astronauts to the Moon, robotic helpers like Astrobee could one day take over routine maintenance tasks and support futur

Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares - intense bursts of energy in the Sun's atmosphere - and coronal mass ejections - eruptions of plasma from the Sun - can affect the communications, satellite navigation and power grid systems that keep society functioning. On Sep

Columbus, OH (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, including at least one American - a streak that will soon reach 25 years. When viewed in the history of spaceflight, the International Space Station is perhaps one of humanity's most amazing accomplishments, a shining example of coope

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite has completed its first mission phase, marking a major step for the nation's role in the global space industry. Developed by the University of Melbourne with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI), SpIRIT is the first Australian Space Agency-funded space telescope to host a foreign payload as its primary instrument. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2025
NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall. NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesday after NASA halted its initial attempted launch last year, the U.S. space agency announced Monday.

Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, which can interfere with technology and power systems on Earth. The three probes blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, built by the private company SpaceX. Once in space, the probes will begin a long journey to reach the Lagrange

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) has been awarded a firm-fixed-price option by the U.S. Space Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office to deliver two BADGER phased array antenna systems under the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. This marks the first option exercised under the SCAR Other Transaction Agreement, aimed at boosting system performance, deployment speed, and

Hsinchu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to secure internet and phone services during a potential conflict with China. The island faces the constant threat of an invasion by Beijing, which claims the island is part of its territory and in recent years has intensified military pressure. Taiwan needs 150 of its ow

Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported life. By analyzing high-resolution geochemical data from the rover, scientists have identified two dozen types of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, that help reveal a dynamic history of vol

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 itself and how it could have arisen. In our work as evolutionary biochemists and protein historians, these core questions form the foundation of our research programs. To study life's history bill