NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Prepares Second Asteroid Encounter
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.
This upcoming event represents a comprehensive "dress rehearsal" for Lucy's main mission over the next decade: the exploration of multiple Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Lu Northrop Grumman completes milestone undocking of MEV-1 in GEO orbit
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Space Logistics LLC has achieved a significant milestone in commercial satellite servicing, successfully completing the first-ever undocking between two commercial spacecraft in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). The Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) disengaged from Intelsat's IS-901 satellite, marking the conclusion of a five-year mission that extended the operat Saltzman details Space Force's international partnership strategy at Space Symposium
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman gave insights into a new, soon-to-be-released International Partnership Strategy to unify like-minded nations' efforts in the space domain during his keynote at the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, April 9.
Saltzman described this strategy as a critical evolution in response to growing threats and rapid technological advancements, dec Space Rider ALEK clears launch vibration and shock trials
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
The ALEK structure, part of ESA's uncrewed Space Rider vehicle, has successfully completed an extensive battery of mechanical qualification tests at the agency's facilities. Over a two-month campaign, ALEK was subjected to a full suite of stress simulations replicating the extreme conditions of launch aboard a Vega-C rocket.
The initial phase of testing focused on vibration endurance. Tech Space Systems Command Launches Orbital Watch, Providing Critical Threat Information to Commercial Sector
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
Orbital Watch, a first-of-its-kind initiative produced by Space Systems Command's (SSC) Front Door, will provide critical, unclassified threat information as a resource to assist companies across the commercial sector in developing capabilities pre-designed to defend against current and emerging threats.
Front Door is a first-step portal for early-stage startups, non-traditional partners, Two-dimensional semiconductors demonstrate space readiness for next-gen devices
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:06
In a landmark demonstration of material resilience, researchers at Tsinghua University's School of Materials Science and Engineering have confirmed that two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials can endure the extreme environment of space. The investigation, led by Professor Ruitao Lv, involved launching both 2D materials and field-effect transistors (FETs) into low Earth orbit aboard China's Hera's Mars flyby - Asteroid Framing Camera (colourised)
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:00
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On 12 March 2025, ESA’s Hera spacecraft soared just 5000 km above Mars and passed within 300 km of its distant moon, Deimos. Captured by Hera’s 1020x1020 pixel Asteroid Framing Camera, this video sequence offers a rare view of the red planet and its enigmatic moon. The original greyscale images have been colour-enhanced based on known surface features.
Hubble investigates a magnetar’s birthplace
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 11:00
Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 was not born in a neighbouring supernova as previously thought. The birthplace of this object is now unknown, and SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova. This discovery was made possible by Hubble’s sensitive instruments as well as highly accurate reference data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
Maryland lawmakers say Trump cuts to NASA Goddard could slash US space programs in half
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Maryland congressmen vow to block proposed NASA science budget cuts
Monday, 14 April 2025 23:04
Derek Tournear to return as Space Development Agency director after investigation
Monday, 14 April 2025 19:17
Tournear will return to the Space Development Agency on April 17 after a three-month administrative leave
Catch up on all of SpaceNews’ Space Symposium 2025 coverage
Monday, 14 April 2025 15:49
SpaceNews produced the official Show Daily for all three exhibit days of the 38th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, April 17-20, 2023.
NASA's IMAP arrives at NASA Marshall for testing in XRCF
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Multi-orbit success or a single-point of failure?
Monday, 14 April 2025 14:00
The march toward single broadband terminals that can tap into multiple orbits promises greater resiliency and flexibility. It also centralizes risk in one device. “Single point failures are not ideal,” […]
Blue Origin launches all-woman New Shepard suborbital flight
Monday, 14 April 2025 13:59
Blue Shepard launched six women, including a pop star and TV show host, on a suborbital flight of the company’s New Shepard vehicle April 14.