Week in images: 24-28 March 2025
Friday, 28 March 2025 13:15
Week in images: 24-28 March 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race
Friday, 28 March 2025 12:00
Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit.
Gas injection setup in new fusion system is guided by public-private research
Friday, 28 March 2025 11:15
When the plasma inside a fusion system starts to misbehave, it needs to be quickly cooled to prevent damage to the device. Researchers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems believe the best bet is a massive gas injection: essentially, a well-timed, rapid blast of cooling gas inside their fusion system, which is known as SPARC. But how many gas valves does it take to quickly tame a plasma that is hotter China’s megaconstellations take off, government backs commercial space
Friday, 28 March 2025 11:05
Get ready for a partial solar eclipse across Europe and parts of North America and Africa
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GAO rejects TraCSS contract protest
Friday, 28 March 2025 10:47
The GAO has denied a protest from a company over a contract that is part of the Office of Space Commerce’s space traffic coordination system.
IRIDE first image presented at ESA–ESRIN
Friday, 28 March 2025 10:00
The first image from a new Italian Earth observation satellite mission was published today: a high-resolution image of a strip of the Italian peninsular showing the city of Rome at a resolution of 2.66 metres. This is three times higher than the resolution currently available for systematic acquisition over Italy.
Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way
Friday, 28 March 2025 09:00
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For over a decade, ESA’s Gaia mission has mapped our galaxy with stunning precision—rewriting the story of the Milky Way. As its mission enters a new phase, we look back at its most groundbreaking discoveries.
Earth from Space: Waza National Park, Cameroon
Friday, 28 March 2025 08:00
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the striking landscape surrounding the Waza National Park in Cameroon. Rocket Lab, Stoke Space join National Security Space Launch competition
Thursday, 27 March 2025 22:52
The companies were selected to compete for $5.6 billion in Pentagon launch contracts
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Air Force nominee Troy Meink warns U.S. risks losing edge in space
Thursday, 27 March 2025 21:43
If confirmed, Meink — currently deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — would oversee both the Air Force and the Space Force
UN decries hike in satellite navigation system interference
Thursday, 27 March 2025 21:21
The United Nations on Tuesday urged countries to boost protections amid a marked increase in efforts to interfere with satellite navigation systems like GPS that are critical for aviation and maritime safety.
The UN's International Telecommunication Union, its International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization jointly voiced "grave concern" at growin Super Earth uncovered by tandem space observations
Thursday, 27 March 2025 21:21
An international research collaboration, including scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, has identified a new super-Earth circling a star cooler than the Sun. The planet, named TOI-512 b, was confirmed through precision measurements by ESPRESSO, a spectrograph developed under the leadership of UNIGE. With a density nearly iden Star-mapping space telescope Gaia sent into 'retirement orbit'
Thursday, 27 March 2025 21:21
After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.
Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create a vast map of the Milky Way, revealing many secrets of the cosmos along t China sends regenerative flatworms to orbit for biological research
Thursday, 27 March 2025 21:21
China's space station will soon host an unusual biological subject for experimentation: the planarian, a species of flatworm distinguished by its extraordinary regenerative powers, according to a report from China Media Group.
With an evolutionary lineage dating back more than 520 million years, planarians are a staple in laboratory research. Their unique ability to completely regenerate b