A Falcon 9 launched an upgraded version of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Sept.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025
Space Systems Command's Assured Access to Space has successfully placed 21 Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Transport Layer satellites into orbit, marking the first launch of Tranche 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The mission, supported by Space Launch Delta 30, flew aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 and delivered York Space Systems-built data transport satellites.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025
ICEYE, a global leader in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite services, has introduced the ISR Cell, a containerized system that gives defense organizations direct, on-site access to tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) from space in near-real-time. The new unit is designed to accelerate decision-making in high-risk environments by shifting satellite intelligence fro

Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2025
Earth's building blocks were "far wetter" than previously imagined, new analysis of tiny samples from a distant asteroid has suggested, overturning long-held assumptions about the early solar system. Research on a tiny portion of the 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometres (185 million miles) from Earth, offers new insights into how the solar

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025
Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed solar array substrate design that cuts composite build times by as much as six months for a typical solar wing assembly, representing up to a 50 percent faster production cycle compared with current methods. The company has already completed engineering tests on flight-ready hardware and is moving through standard qualification steps ahead of operational

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
Researchers have pushed graphene's promise further by directly observing Floquet effects in the one-atom-thick carbon lattice, confirming that Floquet engineering can precisely tune metallic and semi-metallic quantum materials. The international effort was led by the University of Goettingen with collaborators in Braunschweig, Bremen, and Fribourg, and the findings appear in Nature Physics.

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2025
SpaceX launched the latest in a series of cargo freighter missions to the International Space Station Sunday evening from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Northrop Grumman NG-23 Cygnus XL was launched at 6:11 p.m. EDT into low-Earth orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, shuttling supplies and experimental equipment to the ISS. The mission, hauling 11,000 pounds of

WASHINGTON — The chief executive of commercial space station developer Vast says he supports NASA’s revised approach to supporting development of such stations, calling it the best way to avoid a gap in U.S.

NASA has restored contact with one of a pair of space science satellites that ran into problems shortly after its July launch.