Space Force eases entry for commercial firms with layered launch standards
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 18:53
“Based on the risk tolerance of the payload, the government determines which amount of mission assurance is most appropriate for that mission"
Space technologies find new life on Earth
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 14:10
Each year, cutting-edge technologies developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its complex missions and scientific discoveries find new life in applications used to benefit Earth and improve our daily lives.
From 9–13 April, ESA was guest of honour at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in Switzerland with more than 1000 inventions, which attracted 30 000 visitors from the public. ESA showcased its new technologies and applications that have been invented for space missions and patented for use in and outside the space arena.
Hubble offers a new view of Sombrero galaxy
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 13:00
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Sombrero Galaxy In-flight connectivity – where national policy and global service (don’t) mix
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 12:00
Forest mission sealed within rocket fairing for liftoff
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 10:45
With the launch of ESA’s Biomass satellite scheduled for 29 April, preparations at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have reached a key milestone. The satellite has now been sealed inside the protective fairing of the Vega-C rocket – now hidden from view, the satellite is almost ready for its journey into space.
Rocket Lab tapped for major defense contracts to advance hypersonic testing
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a prominent player in global launch services and space systems, has been selected to participate in expansive defense initiatives by both the United States and United Kingdom to support the advancement of hypersonic technologies using its HASTE launch vehicle and engineering capabilities.
The U.S. Air Force has brought Rocket Lab onboard its $46 billion Outpost awarded contract to develop reentry shield tech for space-based cargo delivery
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Outpost Technologies Corporation (Outpost Space), a leader in reusable space logistics platforms, has secured a $1.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force under the SPACEWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiative. The award, granted through the ICED-T (Innovative Cargo Exoatmospheric Delivery Technology) topic, supports Outpost's Shielding Technology for Exoatmospheric Experi Scientists uncover why carbon-rich space rocks rarely reach Earth
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
A comprehensive international study may finally explain why carbon-rich meteorites, which are thought to contain key ingredients for life, are so rarely found on Earth despite being common in space.
Scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory, and several other institutions Momentus inks five-year manufacturing deal with Velo3D
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. space infrastructure company, has signed a five-year master services agreement with additive manufacturing leader Velo3D, Inc. (OTC: VLDX). This partnership marks a strategic effort to accelerate the production of space hardware using cutting-edge 3D printing technology.
The agreement, structured as an all-stock transaction and disclosed in a recent 8-K Bipartisan caucus criticizes proposed NASA science budget cuts
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:33
The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the first Republican opposition in Congress to the plans.
Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
On board Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft, which made a moon landing on March 6, were cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called "AstroAnt." Also on that craft were the words and voices of people from around the world speaking in dozens of languages. These were etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Depar Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it triggers a chemical reaction that could make water molecules.
Now, in the most realistic lab simulation of this process yet, NASA-led researchers have confirmed this pre SwRI-led Lucy probe to pass main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for a pivotal encounter on April 20, 2025, as it targets asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, a three-mile-wide object located in the main asteroid belt. This flyby, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), will serve as a rehearsal ahead of Lucy's primary mission: investigating the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.
These ancient Trojan ast Molten core may hold key to Mars' uneven magnetic past
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) offers a compelling explanation for Mars' puzzling magnetic field distribution, revealing that the planet's ancient magnetism may have originated from a hemispheric field generated by a molten core.
Mars once boasted a global magnetic field strong enough to protect its atmosphere, much like Earth's. Today, that shie