Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2025
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and NASA achieved the first flight of the X-59 supersonic aircraft, marking a step toward commercial supersonic travel over land. The aircraft departed from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, and landed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The X-59 demonstrated expected performance characteristics during its maiden fli

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Leonardo S.p.a. and Unibap Space Solutions AB have launched a strategic partnership to develop advanced real-time space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. The collaboration targets integration of Unibap's edge computing platforms with Leonardo's future Earth observation infrastructures and enhancement of Unibap's systems to meet demanding mission criteria. Leonardo is

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Astrobotic is preparing for the Griffin-1 lunar landing by applying a rigorous "test like you fly" methodology designed to validate every aspect of its Guidance, Navigation, and Control system. Each subsystem, including sensors and flight software, undergoes evaluation in conditions closely mirroring those anticipated during descent and landing on the Moon. The Griffin-1 GNC integrates Ter

Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing it across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or 'colours' of radio light. It provides astronomers with new ways to ex

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
A new study led by Rachael D. Seidler, director of the University of Florida's Astraeus Space Institute, examined how factors such as sex, age, and body metrics relate to brain and eye changes in astronauts after space travel. The research, published in npj Microgravity, is among the first to detail sex-related physiological responses to spaceflight. Data showed that female astronauts exhibited

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
An international team spanning three continents, led by Dr. Petr Cigler at IOCB Prague, has demonstrated a method to create quantum centers in nanodiamonds in minutes, rather than weeks. Their Pressure and Temperature Qubits process produces industrial quantities of light-emitting quantum nanodiamonds, with enhanced optical and quantum characteristics, in a single week, compared to conventional

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and their collaborators have used advanced calculations and simulations to unravel the periodic flashes observed in the galaxy OJ 287, located 3.5 billion light years from Earth. OJ 287 displays light bursts equivalent to one trillion suns approximately every 12 years. Astronomers now attribute these phenomena to a b

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and manoeuvre to its final destination without relying on a bigger spacecraft. Once in its orbit around the Sun, the carry-on luggage-sized CubeSat will observe the Sun's emissions to demonstrate technologies capable of providing advanced warnings of

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
ESA will launch the Henon CubeSat on a mission scheduled for late 2026, utilizing the launch capacity of a larger spacecraft. The CubeSat will be transported to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth on the Sun's far side. After arrival, the CubeSat will use an electric propulsion system to achieve a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Sun, an ellipti

Miami (AFP) Oct 29, 2025
To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a "subsea human habitat." The company unveiled its prototype Wednesday at a hangar in Miami, Florida, hoping that oceanographers and other researchers can use it to stay underwater in the ocean for at least a week, instead of only a few hours like most expediti