London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
An international network of gravitational wave observatories has more than doubled the number of known cosmic collisions, detecting 128 new mergers of black holes and neutron stars. The results, published in the updated Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), showcase the expanding reach of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. The detections, gathered between May 2023 and January 2

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Loft Orbital Federal has secured a NASA Flight Opportunities task order to integrate, launch, and operate an on-orbit mission supporting the Fault Tolerant RISC-V Flight Computer with Coprocessor Support, known as RadPC. The award leverages the agency's commercial flight and payload integration pipeline for rapid technology maturation. The work falls under NASA's fourth Flight Opportunitie

Gliwice, Poland (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
KP Labs has shown that satellites can do more than science alone. Engineers from Gliwice successfully ran the 1993 video game Doom aboard the Intuition-1 satellite, using the in-house Leopard Data Processing Unit. The test highlighted the system's ability to execute varied computational tasks in orbit. Launched on November 11, 2023, Intuition-1 has remained fully operational after nearly t

Tokyo Japan (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Infostellar Inc. has expanded its StellarStation cloud platform through a new partnership with NorthBase, a Finnish provider of ground station services. The collaboration, formalized under a Memorandum of Understanding, focuses on joint sales and marketing while enabling reciprocal sharing of ground station infrastructure. StellarStation connects satellite operators to ground stations thro

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Southwest Research Institute has expanded its Laser Induced Particle Impact Test technique to measure ballistic resistance with greater efficiency and scale than previously possible. The updated process enables larger projectiles and automation, dramatically boosting testing throughput while maintaining accuracy in evaluating protective materials. Dr. Daniel Portillo of SwRI's Engineering

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
For the first time, researchers have established a direct correlation between the frequency of spacecraft electrical discharges and the number of electrons in the surrounding space environment. The findings could inform future methods of protecting satellites from potentially damaging effects. Spacecraft environment discharges (SEDs) are short-lived electrical breakdowns that can harm sens

London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detects 128 black hole collisions, doubling the known gravitational-wave events and advancing our understanding of the Universe. An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection of 128 new cosmic collisions involving black holes and neutron stars. This discovery more than do

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
A $1.39 million award from the National Science Foundation will significantly upgrade Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array, enabling observations across the entire visible and near-infrared spectrum.

Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Astronomers have confirmed that massive stars in galaxies with low metal content often exist in binary systems, much like their counterparts in the Milky Way. An international team of seventy researchers from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Israel used the European Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to monitor massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Their findings appear in Nature Astronomy.

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists have identified a clear origin for hypervelocity white dwarfs - stellar remnants racing through space at more than 2000 km/s. The research, led by Dr. Hila Glanz of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, used advanced three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to model the merger of two rare hybrid helium - carbon - oxygen wh