On Wednesday 12 March 2025 ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft’s trajectory towards its final destination of the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip by months and saving substantial fuel..
The collaboration with Palantir aims to produce specialized payloads for space domain awareness The post Voyager, Palantir deepen alliance to develop military space tech appeared first on SpaceNews..
DLR has announced that, in conjunction with the French space agency CNES, it has begun acoustic testing on the Vehicle Equipment Bay of the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator. The Callisto project was initiated in 2015 to mature key technologies for the eventual development of a reusable launch system. The project is a joint effort between […] The post Testing of Key Callisto Reusable Rocket Demonstrator Component Underway appeared first on European Spaceflight..
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […].
Join us live for a star-studded event this Thursday, as scientists working on ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence release the mission’s first scientific observations beyond the Earth-Moon system, following its imminent flyby of Mars..
Pent-up deal activity from 2024 looks set to spill into 2025, potentially making it the busiest period for space mergers and acquisitions in years. “The interesting thing from my perspective […] The post Space M&A poised for takeoff in 2025 appeared first on SpaceNews..
Albedo, Beast Code, CesiumAstro, Gravitics, LeoLabs, Rise8, Umbra and Xona won Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) agreements The post SpaceWERX selects eight companies for $440 million in public-private partnerships appeared first on SpaceNews..
The space monitoring firm won a SpaceWERX Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) public-private agreement The post LeoLabs wins contract to deploy space-monitoring radar in Indo-Pacific region appeared first on SpaceNews..
As United States government agencies go, NASA is unique. It remains the only entity in the world to have landed humans on the moon. It sent robotic probes to every […] The post America needs a strong NASA appeared first on SpaceNews..
The company announced plans to launch test satellites for its low-Earth orbit constellation in 2026, The post Rivada eyes U.S. government contracts as it prepares to deploy 600-satellite network appeared first on SpaceNews..