Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Vantor has secured a 5.3 million dollar Luno B contract with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to provide AI powered global change detection services that support NGA mapping and intelligence missions. Under the agreement, the company will detect and deliver automated insights on real time changes to the Earths landscape, focusing on updates to terrain and land use. The contract

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Astroscale Japan Inc., a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc., has been selected as an implementing organization under the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Space Strategy Fund Program. The company will develop electric propellant refueling technology to underpin future geostationary orbit servicing missions, advancing capabilities for on-orbit satellite support and logistics. The Space

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Momentus Inc. has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA for a new low Earth orbit mission that will test technologies for in-orbit servicing, assembly, and autonomous operations. The collaboration centers on using the companys Vigoride 7 Orbital Service Vehicle as a host platform for multiple demonstrations designed to improve how spacecraft maneuver, communicate, and work together in spa

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
China has introduced a new satellite short messaging service that uses the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System to maintain communication when ground-based mobile networks are unavailable. The service is aimed at providing a reliable link during emergencies and in remote areas where cellular coverage cannot be guaranteed. China Space-Time Information Co., Ltd., the national operator of BeiDo

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, generates electromagnetic ripples that stretch more than half a million kilometers through the giant planet's space environment. A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini mission shows that this modest world acts as a large scale generator of Alfven waves that carry energy and momentum along Saturn's magnetic field lines. An international team led by

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boundary lies between true planets and brown dwarfs. A new investigation of the HR 8799 planetary system using the James Webb Space Telescope provides key evidence that even very massive gas giants can gr

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Volcanic activity is a key force shaping the surfaces of rocky planets, and new work from Italy indicates that Venus hosts a giant empty lava tube beneath its surface. Using radar images from NASA's Magellan mission, a team at the University of Trento has identified a skylight feature in the Nyx Mons region that reveals a large underground cavity interpreted as a lava conduit. The study, p

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from the University of Southern Denmark now shows that these dark waters receive a significant and previously overlooked energy subsidy from sinking organic particles. The study, led by biologists at

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Amino acids discovered in samples from the Bennu asteroid may have formed in an icy, radioactive environment in the early solar system, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The findings challenge long-held assumptions that these building blocks of life on asteroids formed primarily in the presence of warm liquid water. The team analyzed a small amount of Bennu material,

London, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
A new electric propulsion laboratory for satellite engines has opened at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, providing UK space companies with access to advanced testing and development facilities. The Disruptive Experimental Electric Propulsion (DEEP) Lab has been built by space technology company Magdrive with support from the UK Space Agency's Space Clusters Infrastructu