Building the future of space defense
Thursday, 11 December 2025 13:50
In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss sits down with Matt Magaña, President of Space, Defense & National Security at Voyager Technologies, to explore one of the most consequential national security space stories of 2025: Golden Dome.
Enduralock Validates OneLink™ Prototype in Zero-G Simulation
Thursday, 11 December 2025 13:00
LENEXA, KS – Enduralock is pleased to announce the successful completion of form, fit, and function testing for its OneLink™ satellite docking connector in Arkisys’ 1G robotic ground test facility […]
The journey of Juice – episode 2
Thursday, 11 December 2025 12:00
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. It left Earth in April 2023 and is due to arrive at the gas giant in 2031.
2025 has been another big year for Juice. It made its closest approach to the Sun and flew close by Venus for a gravity boost to help it on its way. This second episode of ‘The journey of Juice’ takes us on a journey of our own, discovering what Juice – and the humans behind it – have experienced this year.
In a clean room at ESA’s technical centre, thermal engineer Romain Peyrou-Lauge shows us the technologies that protect
NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade
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Report identifies science objectives of human Mars exploration
Thursday, 11 December 2025 08:22
Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm
Thursday, 11 December 2025 08:00
The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth’s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth’s magnetic field, but with its ‘star tracker’ positioning instruments – a first for the Swarm mission.
Space-enabled air traffic control takes flight globally
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:58
Air travellers will shrink their carbon footprint while reducing flight delays worldwide, thanks to a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA), satellite operator Viasat and aerospace company Boeing. Flights to test the space-based technology with new aviation standards from and to the USA and Europe took place in late October and early November.
ICE-CSIC leads a pioneering study on the feasibility of asteroid mining
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a geochemical record of their parent bodies makes them promising candidates for future use of space resources. A team led by the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) has analyzed samples of C-type asteroi Lunar dust study links space weathering to changes in Moon ultraviolet brightness
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists working with researchers at UT San Antonio have analyzed Apollo lunar soil samples to determine how space weathering alters the Moon's surface and affects its far-ultraviolet (FUV) reflectance. The team examined how exposure to solar wind and micrometeoroid impacts over long periods changes the FUV spectral response of lunar grains, us NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
The center leverages AI along with JPL's unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Wednesday inaugurated its Rover Operations Center (ROC), a center of excellence for current and future surface missions to the Moon and Mars. D Uranus and Neptune may be rock rich worlds
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
The Solar System is often divided into four inner rocky planets, two gas giants, and two ice giants thought to be dominated by water and other volatiles, but new work from the University of Zurich suggests Uranus and Neptune may contain much more rock than assumed so far. The study indicates that these distant planets can be consistent with interior structures that are either ice rich or rock ri Star wobble reveals black hole dragging spacetime
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
Astronomers have reported the first clear observation of a swirling distortion in spacetime produced by a rapidly spinning black hole, seen through the motion of material left over from a disrupted star.
The team, led by researchers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with support from Cardiff University, studied AT2020afhd, a tidal disruption even Thorium plated steel points to smaller nuclear clocks
Thursday, 11 December 2025 07:45
Last year a UCLA-led team achieved a long-sought goal in nuclear spectroscopy by making radioactive thorium-229 nuclei absorb and emit photons in a controlled way, a capability scientists had pursued for about 50 years. That work, first proposed by the group in 2008, opened the door to nuclear clocks with very high precision that could influence navigation and tests of fundamental physics.