UK joins Eutelsat capital boost to maintain strategic LEO stake
Thursday, 10 July 2025 12:53
What if science fiction is our best glimpse of the future?
Thursday, 10 July 2025 12:13
In this week’s episode of Space Minds, award-winning science fiction author and physicist David Brin joins host David Ariosto for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of space, science, and humanity.
A reflection on the European space industry in 2024
Thursday, 10 July 2025 12:00
As we at Eurospace publish our annual facts and figures report with the key findings of the European space industry’s economic situation, I find myself looking back at 2024 with mixed feelings.
New agreements for next decade of launches at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
Thursday, 10 July 2025 11:38
Investors double down on space infrastructure as exits return
Thursday, 10 July 2025 11:00
Economic headwinds did not stop investments in core space companies from reaching their highest level in more than a year at $3.2 billion for the second quarter of 2025, according to early-stage investor Space Capital.
PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Elche Spain (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
PLD Space has been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a preselected participant in the European Launcher Challenge (ELC), a major initiative designed to strengthen Europe's independent launch capabilities. Backed by up to euro 169 million per company, the ELC represents one of Spain's most significant space contract opportunities and will culminate in final selections following ESA's
PLD Space has been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a preselected participant in the European Launcher Challenge (ELC), a major initiative designed to strengthen Europe's independent launch capabilities. Backed by up to euro 169 million per company, the ELC represents one of Spain's most significant space contract opportunities and will culminate in final selections following ESA's UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
SatVu, a UK-based pioneer in thermal infrared imaging, has secured a contract of up to euro 3 million from the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide high-resolution thermal data to the Copernicus Contributing Mission (CCM) programme over the next three years.
This agreement, announced during the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, marks the first Category 1 CCM contract awarded to a UK fi
SatVu, a UK-based pioneer in thermal infrared imaging, has secured a contract of up to euro 3 million from the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide high-resolution thermal data to the Copernicus Contributing Mission (CCM) programme over the next three years.
This agreement, announced during the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, marks the first Category 1 CCM contract awarded to a UK fi UK opens competitive bid for GBP 75 million orbital cleanup mission
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
London, UK (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
The UK Space Agency has launched a GBP 75.6 million competitive tender for a pioneering mission to remove derelict satellites from orbit, marking the country's first active orbital cleanup effort. The initiative is aimed at safeguarding critical satellite infrastructure that underpins modern services such as navigation, forecasting, and emergency communications.
Central to the Active Debri
The UK Space Agency has launched a GBP 75.6 million competitive tender for a pioneering mission to remove derelict satellites from orbit, marking the country's first active orbital cleanup effort. The initiative is aimed at safeguarding critical satellite infrastructure that underpins modern services such as navigation, forecasting, and emergency communications.
Central to the Active Debri Boeing wins major contract to deliver new generation strategic comms satellites
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
Boeing has secured a $2.8 billion contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop and produce two satellites as part of the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) program, with the possibility of building two additional units. These satellites will play a central role in enhancing the nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) network used by the President and joint strategic for
Boeing has secured a $2.8 billion contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop and produce two satellites as part of the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) program, with the possibility of building two additional units. These satellites will play a central role in enhancing the nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) network used by the President and joint strategic for Chloris Geospatial secures funding to expand forest carbon monitoring technology
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
Chloris Geospatial has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding to advance its satellite-powered forest carbon monitoring solutions. The round was led by Future Energy Ventures, joined by returning investors AXA IM Alts, At One Ventures, Cisco Foundation, Counteract, and Orbia Ventures.
The funding will help the Boston-based firm scale its product development, grow commercial and technical
Chloris Geospatial has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding to advance its satellite-powered forest carbon monitoring solutions. The round was led by Future Energy Ventures, joined by returning investors AXA IM Alts, At One Ventures, Cisco Foundation, Counteract, and Orbia Ventures.
The funding will help the Boston-based firm scale its product development, grow commercial and technical Was Mars doomed to be a desert? Study proposes new explanation
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 09, 2025
One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars.
Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How-and why-did it become it a barren desert today?
A study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite puts forth a new explanation for why Mars never seems to stay balmy for long.
One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars.
Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How-and why-did it become it a barren desert today?
A study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite puts forth a new explanation for why Mars never seems to stay balmy for long. Continuing the Quest for Clays
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2025
For the past month and a half, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau in search of clay-bearing rocks. An earlier blog discussed that these rocks could hold clues to Mars' watery past, and Perseverance has been exploring multiple potential locations to find a suitable target to sample.
When a coring target could not be found at the previous outcrop, the Science Team decide
For the past month and a half, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau in search of clay-bearing rocks. An earlier blog discussed that these rocks could hold clues to Mars' watery past, and Perseverance has been exploring multiple potential locations to find a suitable target to sample.
When a coring target could not be found at the previous outcrop, the Science Team decide Massive Boulders Ejected During DART Mission Complicate Future Asteroid Deflection Efforts
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
College Park MD (SPX) Jul 09, 2025
University of Maryland astronomers discovered that an unexpected blast of space rocks ejected during DART mission carried three times more momentum than the spacecraft itself, leading to new insights for future planetary defense missions.
When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's orbit as intended-it unleash
University of Maryland astronomers discovered that an unexpected blast of space rocks ejected during DART mission carried three times more momentum than the spacecraft itself, leading to new insights for future planetary defense missions.
When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's orbit as intended-it unleash Probing the cosmic Dark Ages from the far side of the Moon
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
London, UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2025
Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the 'Cosmic Dawn' by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient whisper" on the far side of the Moon.
The proposed mission will study the very early universe, right after the Big Bang, when it was still quite dark and empty before the first stars and galaxies appeared.
But to probe the cosmic 'Dark Ages', silence is essentia
Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the 'Cosmic Dawn' by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient whisper" on the far side of the Moon.
The proposed mission will study the very early universe, right after the Big Bang, when it was still quite dark and empty before the first stars and galaxies appeared.
But to probe the cosmic 'Dark Ages', silence is essentia Plate tectonics - Mineral olivine is crucial for heat transport in the mantle
Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:48
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to transport water into the Earth's deep mantle. This was found by scientists from the University of Potsdam and from the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, together with international colleagues,
Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to transport water into the Earth's deep mantle. This was found by scientists from the University of Potsdam and from the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, together with international colleagues,