Boulder, CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2025
On September 23, 2025, the U.S. Space Force declared operational acceptance of the second operational delivery of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE, for the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Space Force Base. OA #2 integrates FORGE Mission Data Processing with the cyber-secure FORGE Framework to sharpen accuracy, boost performance, and harden resiliency across Mi

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2025
Planet Labs PBC has announced that its subsidiary, Planet Labs Federal, has received a $12.8 million initial award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Luno B indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The project, titled Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance (AAMOR), focuses on delivering AI-enabled maritime domain awareness cap

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
Chinese scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking miniature spectrometer that combines ultra-high resolution with a wide field of view, enabling faster and sharper exploration of the universe than ever before. Developed at Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering, the new technology - known as RAFAEL in English and Yuheng in Chinese - integrates a full spectroscopic syste

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
China has recorded a series of landmark achievements in its ongoing quest for space exploration, spanning its crewed space station program, lunar far-side sample return, and interplanetary missions. These milestones underscore the nation's growing capabilities in orbital operations, scientific research, and deep space engineering during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). The Shenz

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
Researchers at the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a hybrid deep learning model that significantly enhances the accuracy of atmospheric delay prediction-a key factor affecting both astronomical observations and geodetic measurements. Electromagnetic waves slow as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere due to variations in air density an

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
China Satellite Network Group Co Ltd is accelerating the integration of satellite internet with the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, emphasizing the dual role of the company as both an innovator and a national infrastructure leader. Liang Baojun, general manager of China Satellite Network Group, said the company is driving forward the development of satellite internet while focusing on

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
China has launched 18 communications satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, marking the sixth deployment phase of the growing Spacesail Constellation network. The satellites, built by the Shanghai-based Innovation Academy for Microsatellites under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were launched on Friday afternoon aboard a Long March 6A rocket at 3:08 pm. Th

Morgantown WV (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
Scientists know dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe and is responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion. Beyond that, little about it is certain, so WVU engineer Kevin Bandura is enhancing the calibration of radio telescopes that can tell astronomers about dark energy by measuring the "neutral hydrogen" in the universe, a simple form of hydrogen with no net electric charge.

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
Dark matter remains one of physics' most enduring mysteries, yet researchers at Tohoku University have developed a promising new strategy to detect it-by linking quantum sensors into sophisticated network structures. These quantum sensors, based on superconducting qubits, can pick up incredibly faint signals that ordinary detectors would miss. By organizing the qubits into optimized networ

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 21, 2025
A new study from Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy suggests that most massive stars formed in the early universe were born in pairs, echoing patterns seen among massive stars in our own Milky Way. The finding provides the first strong evidence that binary star formation was common in the early cosmos-an insight that reshapes understanding of how black holes, supernovae, and h