Students kick off experiments on ESA’s flat floor
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 08:27
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Students kick off experiments on ESA’s flat floor First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 08:20
With launch planned for later this year, testing is well underway to ensure the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite is ready for its life in orbit around Earth. These checks include verifying that its spectacular four-panel, 11-metre-long, solar wing will deploy correctly.
A banner year for military space funding— with an unclear path beyond
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 21:48
Reconciliation boost lifts 2026 totals, but sustainability questions loom for missile defense and Space Development Agency
The legal void of the asteroid gold rush
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Lockheed Martin presses case that GPS upgrade will counter jamming threats
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 14:30
GPS IIIF features, including regional spot beams, will ‘change the calculus’ for adversaries
The Commercial Space Federation Releases New White Paper “Perfecting Public-Private Partnerships”
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 13:00
February 24, 2026 – Washington, DC – The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is proud to announce the release of a new paper titled “Perfecting Public-Private Partnerships: The Future of Government […]
At Colorado space firms, Hegseth casts Pentagon bureaucracy as the enemy
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 12:00
Hegseth contrasts “builders” with Beltway primes as administration leans into procurement overhaul
LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial space station
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 11:32
Sophia Space claims $10 million in seed round
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 11:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Sophia Space raised $10 million in seed funding to accelerate development of space-based edge computers and orbital data centers.
India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI models
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 10:35
Fledgling Indian artificial intelligence companies showcased homegrown technologies this week at a major summit in New Delhi, underpinning big dreams of becoming a global AI power.
But analysts said the country was unlikely to have a "DeepSeek moment" - the sort of boom China had last year with a high-performance, low-cost chatbot - any time soon.
Still, building custom AI tools could TotalEnergies in high-stakes French trial over climate change
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 10:35
TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began Thursday over accusations the French energy giant failed to properly consider environmental risks.
The case, brought by several NGOs and the city of Paris, is based upon a 2017 law that imposed a "duty of vigilance" on large companies.
The law seeks to counter companies offloading responsibility Galileo vs. spoofing: ESA tests in real-world environments
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 09:24
From adding timestamps to banking transactions to mapping the best route to a destination, satellite navigation plays a significant role in daily life. At the same time, attempts to interfere with and fake navigation signals are increasing. For the last seven months, a new verification service for Galileo has mitigated the threat of spoofing in the Open Service by confirming that the satellite navigation data used for positioning originated in the Galileo system.
NASA delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flight
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 07:42
NASA on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space.
The US space agency labeled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a "Type A" mishap - the same classification as the deadly Challenger and Columbia Webb maps Uranus upper atmosphere in 3D
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 07:42
A Northumbria University PhD student has led an international collaboration to construct the first three-dimensional view of Uranus upper atmosphere, showing how the planet's unusual magnetic field sculpts bright auroras thousands of kilometers above its clouds.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, operated by NASA with ESA and CSA, lead author Paola Tiranti and colleagues observed Uranus