NASA Libera payload completes testing for future Earth energy tracking mission
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 15:09
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
NASA's Libera Earth energy instrument has completed a full campaign of environmental testing and is now ready for delivery to its host satellite, marking a major milestone for the agency's long term record of Earth's radiation budget measurements. The test series included thermal vacuum trials that replicated the temperature extremes and vacuum conditions Libera will face in orbit, along with ot
NASA's Libera Earth energy instrument has completed a full campaign of environmental testing and is now ready for delivery to its host satellite, marking a major milestone for the agency's long term record of Earth's radiation budget measurements. The test series included thermal vacuum trials that replicated the temperature extremes and vacuum conditions Libera will face in orbit, along with ot NISAR radar view maps surface changes in Mississippi Delta
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 15:09
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
A new radar image from the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite shows how the mission can see through cloud cover to reveal surface features across the Mississippi River Delta region in southeastern Louisiana.
The scene, acquired on November 29, 2025, with NISAR's L-band synthetic aperture radar instrument, spans the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the winding Mississippi River between t
A new radar image from the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite shows how the mission can see through cloud cover to reveal surface features across the Mississippi River Delta region in southeastern Louisiana.
The scene, acquired on November 29, 2025, with NISAR's L-band synthetic aperture radar instrument, spans the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the winding Mississippi River between t Rock microbes reveal hidden groundwater carbon engine
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 15:09
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026
Deep underground, microbial communities living on rock surfaces are emerging as powerful but largely overlooked drivers of groundwater chemistry and carbon storage. A team from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has now shown that these attached microbes follow fundamentally different strategies from free-floating cells in groundwater, with
Deep underground, microbial communities living on rock surfaces are emerging as powerful but largely overlooked drivers of groundwater chemistry and carbon storage. A team from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has now shown that these attached microbes follow fundamentally different strategies from free-floating cells in groundwater, with Antarctic ice feedback limits Southern Ocean carbon sink
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 15:09
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026
A sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean has provided a research team led by geochemist Dr Torben Struve from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, with evidence of an unexpected climate feedback in Antarctica. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, links changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to variations in marine algae growth over several glacial cycles, but in a wa
A sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean has provided a research team led by geochemist Dr Torben Struve from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, with evidence of an unexpected climate feedback in Antarctica. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, links changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to variations in marine algae growth over several glacial cycles, but in a wa FireSat adds orbit-visualization software to help firefighters plan around satellite passes
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 14:50
ExoAnalytic tool aims to show when fire-monitoring satellites can actually see the ground
Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 13:00
ExLabs taps SpacePilot autonomy for Apophis asteroid mission
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
ExLabs has selected CUS-GNC's SpacePilot onboard autonomy software to provide guidance, navigation, and control for its planned Mission to Asteroid Apophis, a commercial deep-space campaign that will operate at distances exceeding 100 million kilometers from Earth. The company describes itself as a commercial deep-space mission operator developing next-generation platforms for exploration beyond
ExLabs has selected CUS-GNC's SpacePilot onboard autonomy software to provide guidance, navigation, and control for its planned Mission to Asteroid Apophis, a commercial deep-space campaign that will operate at distances exceeding 100 million kilometers from Earth. The company describes itself as a commercial deep-space mission operator developing next-generation platforms for exploration beyond Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon construction
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has produced a design for a specialised calibration chamber that will allow cone penetration instruments to be tested under lunar conditions, providing the g
Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has produced a design for a specialised calibration chamber that will allow cone penetration instruments to be tested under lunar conditions, providing the g Voyager outlines infrastructure-led roadmap for long-term US lunar presence
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Voyager Technologies has launched a strategic lunar initiative designed to align with the White House Securing American Space Superiority executive order and to reinforce United States leadership beyond low Earth orbit. The initiative is framed as a long-term effort to support exploration, national security and commercial activity on and around the Moon by focusing on durable infrastructure rath
Voyager Technologies has launched a strategic lunar initiative designed to align with the White House Securing American Space Superiority executive order and to reinforce United States leadership beyond low Earth orbit. The initiative is framed as a long-term effort to support exploration, national security and commercial activity on and around the Moon by focusing on durable infrastructure rath Jupiter size refined by new radio mapping
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
For more than half a century, planetary scientists relied on a handful of spacecraft flybys to pin down Jupiter's size and shape. Now, an international team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has used a trove of new radio data from NASA's Juno mission to redraw the gas giant with unprecedented precision.
The study, published in Nature Astronomy, replaces six measurements from NASA's
For more than half a century, planetary scientists relied on a handful of spacecraft flybys to pin down Jupiter's size and shape. Now, an international team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has used a trove of new radio data from NASA's Juno mission to redraw the gas giant with unprecedented precision.
The study, published in Nature Astronomy, replaces six measurements from NASA's Exploding primordial black hole model may link extreme neutrino and dark matter
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Amherst MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy - 100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of p
In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy - 100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of p ESA adjusts Cluster orbits for rare twin reentry campaign
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during t
When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during t Muon Space ramps up multi-mission satellite constellations
Wednesday, 04 February 2026 12:04
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Muon Space is entering a new phase of operational scale as it moves from discrete missions to sustained, multi-mission satellite constellation deployment for government and commercial customers.
The Mountain View based company reports that its growing mission portfolio, expanding launch manifest and increasing demand for end-to-end, mission-optimized systems are driving this transition. In
Muon Space is entering a new phase of operational scale as it moves from discrete missions to sustained, multi-mission satellite constellation deployment for government and commercial customers.
The Mountain View based company reports that its growing mission portfolio, expanding launch manifest and increasing demand for end-to-end, mission-optimized systems are driving this transition. In