MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
The MetOp Second Generation-A1 satellite has reached a significant milestone in its journey to orbit, with fuelling operations now complete at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Engineers successfully loaded 790 kg of hydrazine onto the spacecraft, paving the way for the next phase of pre-launch activities.
This satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, is the first in a series of three A-B satellite pair One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
Proteins, the molecular machines of life, are constructed from 20 amino acids in seemingly infinite combinations-up to 10^78 possible sequences for a 60-residue protein. Yet only a tiny subset fold into stable, functional shapes. A new study published in Science reveals that the rules guiding these folds may be far more forgiving than previously assumed.
Scientists from the Centre for Geno Rollable solar array by GalaxySpace redefines satellite compactness and power efficiency
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
GalaxySpace, a commercial space company based in Beijing, has introduced a pioneering rollable solar panel that dramatically reduces satellite bulk while boosting energy efficiency. Presented at a recent conference in Yibin, the new solar wing can be compacted to the size of a water bottle but unfolds in orbit to cover 20 square meters.
Xu Ming, CEO of GalaxySpace, explained that the solar SES and Luxembourg to expand military satcom with next generation GovSat2
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
SES and the Luxembourg Government will co-develop and launch GovSat-2, a second military communications satellite under their joint public-private venture, LuxGovSat S.A. This new satellite will build on the capabilities of GovSat-1, expanding secure satellite connectivity services for defense and government customers across Europe and beyond.
GovSat-2, to be manufactured by Thales Alenia Russian space chief to meet NASA head for first time in eight years
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos arrived in the United States on Tuesday to meet with his NASA counterpart in the first such meeting in eight years, Roscosmos said.
Space has been one of the few areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States after Moscow's offensive on Ukraine brought relations between the two space pioneer nations to lows not seen since the Cold War. BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has secured a contract to provide its Gen-3 and Gen-2 satellite-based monitoring services to Latin American defense and intelligence agencies, supporting efforts against transnational organized crime.
The contract delivers immediate On-Demand access to BlackSky's high-frequency, low-latency satellite imagery and analytics, enabling security forces to d China issues new rules to elevate quality control in private space sector
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 09:46
China has introduced new regulations to tighten quality oversight of its growing commercial space industry. The directive, issued Monday by the China National Space Administration (CNSA), outlines comprehensive management standards intended to guide projects from initial design through final decommissioning.
The new rules assign explicit responsibilities to various stakeholders and emphasi VV27 road to liftoff
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 08:00
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Highlights and liftoff of Vega-C flight VV27 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 23:03 local time on 25 July (03:03 BST/04:03 CEST on 26 July).
Flight VV27 was operated by Arianespace and launched Airbus’s four CO3D satellites and the French space agency CNES MicroCarb mission.
The four small satellites in the CO3D constellation (an abbreviation of the French 'Constellation Optique en 3D') are set to map the globe in three dimensions from low Earth orbit, to serve public and private sector needs.
MicroCarb is designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide on a global scale. ESA coordinated and procured the
SmallSat heads to Salt Lake City as audience expands
Monday, 28 July 2025 22:02
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 4,000 people from 45 countries have signed up to attend the Small Satellite Conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City Aug.
House appropriators want TraCSS to rely more on Defense Department
Monday, 28 July 2025 16:45
A House appropriations bill provides funding for a civil space traffic coordination system but wants changes to increase its reliance on the Defense Department.
U.S. military X-37B spaceplane prepares for eighth mission
Monday, 28 July 2025 16:45
OTV-8 will test technologies for GPS-denied navigation and space network integration
Stanford spinoff EraDrive claims $1 million NASA contract
Monday, 28 July 2025 16:24
SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford spinoff, won a $1 million NASA contract to detect, identify and track space objects.
Nobody owns the moon—researcher suggests that could be a problem
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Europe’s new carbon-monitoring mission launches on Vega-C
Monday, 28 July 2025 12:00
The MicroCarb mission, led by the French space agency CNES, will monitor carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help identify the world’s main sources and sinks of this important greenhouse gas. Launched on 25 July on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the mission benefitted from the In-Orbit Demonstration and Validation (IOD/IOV) programme managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Commission.