NASA begins moon mission plume-surface interaction tests
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NASA astronaut back on Earth after 8 months on space station
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SpaceX national security mission marks last use of Cape Canaveral's landing zones
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 13:21Verifying that you are not a bot
How multi-agent AI can strengthen space missions against the unknown
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 13:00
Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors, more software-driven behavior, more tightly coupled subsystems and more interactions between spacecraft and orbital infrastructure.
Benchmark demonstrates high-throughput ASCENT thruster in hotfire testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 12:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit application of the propulsion technology, the company announced Dec.
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 11:53
NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay.
Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 11:05
A space solar power startup has emerged from stealth after demonstrating a key technology for its plans to transmit power from space to the Earth.
Shine bright like a satellite
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 10:37
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Shine bright like a satellite Space shuttle design study maps path to breakthrough inventions
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
Researchers examining NASA's space shuttle development argue that the agency's design approach offers a template for creating breakthrough products that combine many interdependent features, from launch systems to smartphones and pharmaceuticals. They focus on how NASA generated internal knowledge for the shuttle program between 1969 and 1971, when engineers had to balance performance, cost, and Canadian radar satellite contract positions MDA Space for RADARSAT replenishment role
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
MDA Space has secured a $44.7 million contract from Public Services and Procurement Canada, acting for the Canadian Space Agency, to procure and deliver critical long lead parts in support of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission replenishment satellite development.
The Government of Canada has also signalled its intention to award MDA Space the full contract in 2026 to build, test, and launc LEO internet satellites bolster navigation where GPS is weak
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
As intentional and unintentional interference with GPS grows worldwide, researchers have shown that radio signals from commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellations such as Starlink and OneWeb can provide an alternative source of navigation and positioning, especially in regions where GNSS performance is degraded. The new work indicates that passively received LEO signals can be turne MDA Space plans C250 million senior unsecured note issue maturing 2030
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
MDA Space Ltd. has arranged a private placement of C$250 million in 7.00 percent senior unsecured notes due 2030 under an underwriting agreement. The company expects the offering to close around December 23, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The notes will be issued at C$1,000 for each C$1,000 in principal.
The notes will rank equally in right of payment with all existing and MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can't reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble.
So far, aerial microrobots have only been able to fly slowly along smooth t SLI and AscendArc agree on 200 million GEO satellite leasing framework
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:49
Aerospace asset finance firm SLI has signed heads of agreement to acquire two of AscendArc's next-generation Ka-band geostationary satellites, in a transaction valued at more than $200 million. The framework sits within a wider partnership that allows AscendArc to make its GEO spacecraft available on leasing terms instead of requiring customers to fund an outright purchase.
Through SLI's f Funding boost unlocks future space science programme
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 09:00
In its 50th anniversary year, European Space Agency (ESA) Member States have recommitted to space science. A historic budget increase for the Science Programme of 3.5% per year through to 2028, in addition to inflation, will enable some of the most ambitious missions ever, and bolster European leadership in space science.