Teledyne detector arrays power NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat X-ray mission
Thursday, 22 January 2026 01:29Keysight joins Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN project to advance 5G satellite NTN
Thursday, 22 January 2026 01:29
Keysight Technologies is collaborating on the Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator to explore 5G non-terrestrial network capabilities using software-defined satellite technology in both ground and in-orbit scenarios. The initiative focuses on using a Low Earth Orbit satellite platform to test how next generation satellite payloads can support emerging 5G services from space.
The project add Energy learning algorithm boosts complex UAV swarm tasking
Thursday, 22 January 2026 01:29
With unmanned aerial vehicles now common across modern military and security operations, planners face increasing pressure to assign heterogeneous drone swarms to complex mission sets without wasting time or resources. A new study in the journal Defence Technology reports an energy learning hyper-heuristic algorithm that tackles cooperative task assignment under multiple operational constraints. 2025 was third hottest year on record: EU, US experts
Thursday, 22 January 2026 01:29
The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, US researchers and EU climate monitors said Wednesday.
The last 11 years have now been the warmest ever recorded, with 2024 topping the podium and 2023 in second place, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and Berkeley Earth, a California-base Perovskite betavoltaic cell sets record efficiency using carbon 14 source
Thursday, 22 January 2026 01:29
A research team at DGIST has developed a perovskite based self powered betavoltaic battery that achieves what they report as the worlds highest conversion efficiency for this class of device while maintaining long term operational stability. The work targets applications that require continuous reliable power without external charging, such as artificial intelligence systems, internet of things New NASA Artemis payloads to study moon's terrain, radiation, history
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Blue Origin plans bespoke high-speed Starlink rival
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 20:48
Blue Origin aims to start deploying more than 5,400 satellites from late next year for its own Starlink broadband competitor, targeting up to 6 Tbps capacity for enterprise, data center and government customers.
The Exploration Company in talks to acquire Orbex
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 17:02
The Exploration Company is in talks to acquire Orbex, the U.K.-based small launch vehicle developer that has reportedly been in financial distress.
Starfish Space wins SDA contract to deorbit satellites
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 13:00
Starfish Space has won a contract from the Space Development Agency to deorbit satellites in a missile-tracking and communications constellation, evidence that deorbiting services are moving into the mainstream.
Accelerating digital transformation is the keystone to deterring space war
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 13:00
The United States cannot beat China without accelerating digital transformation: cloud-native services, edge computing, AI/ML-driven autonomy, software-defined payloads, zero-trust cybersecurity, network maneuver and automated DevSecOps pipelines.
Stratolaunch secures major funding to scale hypersonic flight services
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:11
Stratolaunch has completed a significant capital raise to accelerate the growth of its hypersonic test and flight services business, adding Elliott Investment Management L.P. as a new investor alongside existing backer Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. The new funding is intended to rapidly expand Stratolaunch's role in the American defense industrial base through higher production rates and mor Major equity deal backs Gilmour Space expansion of sovereign launch capability
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:11
Gilmour Space Technologies has raised 217 million Australian dollars in private equity funding to accelerate the next phase of its sovereign space operations in Australia.
The Series E round was jointly led by the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) and superannuation fund Hostplus, with participation from Future Fund, Blackbird, Funds SA, HESTA, NGS Super, Main Sequence, QIC, Lunar impacts limit late delivery of Earth ocean water
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:11
A long-standing idea in planetary science proposes that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history delivered a major share of the planet's water inventory. A new study led by researchers at Universities Space Research Association and the University of New Mexico uses the Moon's surface record to impose strict limits on that scenario, concluding that impacts over the last 4 billion year ExLabs and ChibaTech team up to land student CubeLanders on asteroid Apophis
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:11
ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center to deliver university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth in 2029. The ApophisExL mission is described as the world's first commercial deep-space rideshare and is supported through mission design and operations collaboration with NASA's Jet Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior details
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:11
Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric whirlpools that rotate over a planet's polar region. On Saturn, a single massive polar vortex appears to cap the north pole in a curiously hexagonal shape, while on Jupiter, a central polar vortex 
