Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA. A bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves: ripples in spacetime caused by the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of supermassive black holes colliding and merging.

Image: A VISION FOR THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Imagine living and working hundreds of miles above Earth for more than 50 days. That has been the reality for China's Shenzhou XX crew-Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie-currently aboard the Tiangong Space Station conducting vital scientific and medical research. In a video released Monday by China Central Television (CCTV), the astronauts were shown carrying out a full slate of experi

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Zenno Astronautics has partnered with Wellington UniVentures and the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute to propel New Zealand into global prominence in superconducting magnet technology for space applications. This formal collaboration brings together top-tier innovation, research translation, and superconducting science to position New Zealand as a hub for advanced space tech. Zenno leads

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
NASA has issued a formal request for information from domestic and international companies on their capabilities to provide satellite-based communication and navigation services near Earth. The effort aims to transition space mission support from government-operated systems to commercial satellite services. This call is part of the agency's broader Communications Services Project, which se

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Redwire Corporation has announced the launch of a $200 million underwritten public offering of its common stock. The company plans to grant underwriters a 30-day option to acquire up to 15% more shares than initially offered. The final size and completion of the offering will depend on market and other conditions. Redwire intends to allocate the net proceeds toward general corporate initia

London, UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Astroscale Ltd. has secured a GBP 5.15 million contract from the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), via the BAE Systems-led Serapis framework, to spearhead the Orpheus mission aimed at advancing space situational awareness and weather monitoring capabilities. As reliance on space-based infrastructure increases, the threat from space weather, hostile activity, and orbita

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Astronomers have successfully traced the bulk of the Universe's "missing" ordinary matter to the intergalactic medium, using fast radio bursts (FRBs) as cosmic probes. Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian and Caltech leveraged these powerful signals to detect the faint, elusive gas long suspected to float between galaxies, finally providing a detailed census of

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, has delivered two spacecraft for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The milestone sets the stage for final integration and launch preparations ahead of the scheduled summer 2025 window. "This achievement highlights the dedication of our team and collab

Louis, MO (SPX) Mon Jun 17, 2025
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin science operations in 2027, is expected to uncover more than 160,000 gravitational lenses-cosmic alignments where a foreground galaxy bends and magnifies the light of a background galaxy. Researchers led by Bryce Wedig, a physics graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, aim to harness these rare phenomena to probe the structur