The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 th
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 th Lodestar Space wins SECP support to advance AI satellite awareness system
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 Mithril.
The SECP Sprint R and D grant of GBP 30,000 will pay for integration and testing of a new LiDAR sensor within Mithril's existing on-orbit sensing suite. Mithril is described as a fully auto
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 Mithril.
The SECP Sprint R and D grant of GBP 30,000 will pay for integration and testing of a new LiDAR sensor within Mithril's existing on-orbit sensing suite. Mithril is described as a fully auto KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino region
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 their ability to oscillate between flavors shows they have mass and can change identity as they travel. For many years, anomalies in reactor and source experiments have pointed to the possible existe
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 their ability to oscillate between flavors shows they have mass and can change identity as they travel. For many years, anomalies in reactor and source experiments have pointed to the possible existe Sea based rocket net recovery platform enters service for Chinese reusable launchers
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 Linghangzhe or Pathfinder, has been certified by the China Classification Society, becoming the first sea based rocket recovery platform in the country to receive the required class and statutory appr
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 Linghangzhe or Pathfinder, has been certified by the China Classification Society, becoming the first sea based rocket recovery platform in the country to receive the required class and statutory appr Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 vehicles, and missile defense programs across military, commercial, and scientific markets.
The combined company draws on more than 120 years of engineering and manufacturing activity in mission cri
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 vehicles, and missile defense programs across military, commercial, and scientific markets.
The combined company draws on more than 120 years of engineering and manufacturing activity in mission cri NASA to test commercial robotic arm in orbit to advance in space construction
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 development of in space operations that are needed for long duration human activities away from Earth and will help grow a commercial robotics sector that future science and exploration missions can use.
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 development of in space operations that are needed for long duration human activities away from Earth and will help grow a commercial robotics sector that future science and exploration missions can use. Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:37
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 needs of tens of thousands of homes or even a small city. To ease that strain, some technology leaders are turning their attention to space, where sunlight is abundant and continuous, and where solar-po
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 needs of tens of thousands of homes or even a small city. To ease that strain, some technology leaders are turning their attention to space, where sunlight is abundant and continuous, and where solar-po Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:11
The company is adapting commercial thermal-sensing tech for military applications
Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital data center race
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 11:04
Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has thrown its hat into the emerging market for orbital data centers, joining SpaceX, Amazon and others exploring ways to move energy-hungry artificial intelligence compute off Earth.
China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 10:06
Galileo pre-launch media briefing
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 10:00
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Watch the replay of the media briefing held ahead of the 14th operational launch of the Galileo programme. The briefing covers the mission details for the launch of two Galileo satellites, which are set to lift off on 17 December aboard Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 07:00
Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second.
Senate committee advances Isaacman nomination a second time
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 04:13
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator to the full Senate in a Dec.
Private capital targets mission-critical software power and platforms in new space economy
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 03:08
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 and guidance systems to deployable microreactors and high-temperature reactors. Axle Point's first transaction is a strategic equity investment in Odyssey Space Research LLC, a flight software and en
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 and guidance systems to deployable microreactors and high-temperature reactors. Axle Point's first transaction is a strategic equity investment in Odyssey Space Research LLC, a flight software and en Neutron Hungry Hippo fairing completes qualification ahead of first launch
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 03:08
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 fairing halves remain attached to Neutron's first stage from liftoff through landing, rather than separating and being discarded or recovered at sea. In flight, the halves open to release the second
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 fairing halves remain attached to Neutron's first stage from liftoff through landing, rather than separating and being discarded or recovered at sea. In flight, the halves open to release the second