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January 31, 2025
SPACE TRAVEL
Will the US get to Mars quicker if it drops or delays plans to visit the Moon?



Nottingham UK (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
The Artemis program has been Nasa's best chance to get "boots on the Moon" again. But with the new US administration taking guidance from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is focused on Mars colonisation, will they end up abandoning or pushing back lunar missions? For example, there's been speculation that returning US president Donald Trump may cancel the Space Launch System rocket, which Nasa intended to use to get from the Moon to Mars. But is this approach likely to help them get to Mars quicke ... read more

MOON DAILY
Searching for Water on the Moon: UC San Diego Researchers Uncover Clues to Lunar Water's Origins
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
As humanity envisions establishing a permanent presence on the moon, Mars, and beyond, the challenge of sustaining life comes down to the essentials: oxygen, food, and water. While it is well-known ... more
CYBER WARS
China's DeepSeek-R1: A Game-Changing AI Release or Strategic Gesture?
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 28, 2025
In a move that has taken the global artificial intelligence (AI) community by surprise, DeepSeek, a private Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng, has ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Spacewalkers Complete Radio Hardware Removal and Microbe Search
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore successfully completed a spacewalk at 1:09 p.m. EST on Jan. 30. This marked the ninth spacewalk for Williams and the fifth for Wilmore, contributing t ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA Tech Instrument Captures Test Images During Blue Ghost Lunar Transit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has reached the 15th day of its planned 45-day journey to the Moon, marking an important milestone in its transit. Among the key scientific payloads onboard is the Ste ... more
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How Corporate Lawyers Can Support the Growth of Space-Tech Companies
London, UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The burgeoning space technology sector presents a frontier of opportunities and challenges for businesses looking to innovate and expand. This blog post explores how, as companies venture into this ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers Detect Crucial Factor in Star Formation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
For the first time, astronomers have identified a long-theorized but previously unobserved component essential to star formation: magnetic fields within merging galaxies. Much like a pressure cooker ... more
EXO WORLDS
PLATO mission set for late 2026 launch aboard Ariane 6
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
On January 29, 2025, senior officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace formalized the launch contract for ESA's PLATO science mission. The agreement was signed by Carole Mundell, ... more
TECH SPACE
SPACE ISAC expands member benefits with access to new testbeds network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has announced a major new benefit for its members: access to the Accelerating Space Capabilities 100 (ASC-100), an international networ ... more

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TIME AND SPACE
Collaboration at Mainz University enables the simulation of skyrmion dynamics on experimentally relevant time scales
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 31, 2025
Magnetic skyrmions, which range in size from nanometers to micrometers, exhibit particle-like properties and can be efficiently manipulated using electrical currents. This makes them a promising can ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches from Florida, retires first-stage booster because of extra power needed
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 29, 2025
SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired the first-stage booster rather than landing on a droneship. ... more
VSAT NEWS
Satcube's launches new Enhanced Government Terminals for any environment
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Satcube has unveiled upgraded government satellite communication terminals, designed to enhance security and undetectability for mission-critical operations. These latest innovations bring advanced ... more
IRON AND ICE
Life's building blocks in Bennu samples
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases - building blocks of DNA and RNA - in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies wi ... more
IRON AND ICE
ESA Monitoring Potential Threat from Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered near-Earth object that has a minimal chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Chinese Satellite Companies Expand Global Services with Advanced Networks and Constellations
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Chinese space companies are rapidly expanding their global satellite services, offering capabilities in communications, navigation, and remote sensing. This expansion is coupled with a swift increas ... more
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SPACEMART
SiriusXM's SXM-9 Satellite Begins Full Operation After Successful Testing
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
SiriusXM and Maxar Space Systems announced today that the SXM-9 satellite has completed its in-orbit testing phase and is now fully operational. This milestone follows the successful launch of the s ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
EagleView Unveils Advanced Property Data Ecosystem
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
EagleView, a leader in aerial imagery and geospatial intelligence, has announced the release of its advanced property data ecosystem. The platform aggregates more than 60 petabytes of high-definitio ... more
TECH SPACE
Australian innovation detects space phenomena with new technology
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA Space Tech Prepares for Lunar Exploration with Innovative Dust Mitigation Technologies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
NASA's Space Technology Division is gearing up for an exciting year of exploration with a focus on the Moon. In 2025, the agency is set to test ten advanced science and technology demonstrations, in ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Airbus-built SpainSat NG-I satellite successfully launched
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The first of the next-generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I, has successfully launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA. This advanced satellite, operated by Hisdesat for th ... more
MOON DAILY
ESA Contracts Thales Alenia Space-Led Consortium for First Lunar Lander
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space, located in Italy, a significant contract to lead a European consortium tasked with building the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element (LDE), ... more
IRON AND ICE
Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals al ... more
SATURN DAILY
SwRI experiments validate theories about Titan's atmospheric sustainability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Carnegie Institution for Science have conducted advanced laboratory experiments to explore the mechanisms that allow Saturn's moon Titan to maintain its d ... more
IRON AND ICE
Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar system
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially tra ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Small and Yet So Powerful: New Insights into Cosmic Rays from Low-Mass Microquasars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
Our planet is constantly bombarded by particles from outer space. While most of us are familiar with the sight of rocky meteorites - those shooting stars that light up the night sky - it's the small ... more
IRON AND ICE
Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old aster ... more
IRON AND ICE
Dust from asteroid Bennu shows: Building blocks of life and possible habitats were widespread in our solar system
Frankfurt, Germamy (SPX) Jan 30, 2025
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE
PUNCH solar arrays pass critical pre-launch tests
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Technicians supporting NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission have successfully deployed and tested the spacecraft's solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations pr ... more
SPACEMART
Sidus Space Receives FCC Approval for Direct-to-Device Capability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a dynamic leader in space mission technology, has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to integrate direc ... more
CHIP TECH
Adding bridges to stabilize quantum networks
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2025
Entangled photons, a cornerstone of quantum computing and communications, face a significant challenge: they vanish after a single use. To address this, researchers at Northwestern University have p ... more
SPACEWAR
BlackSky secures $100 million contract for next-generation space monitoring capabilities
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has signed a seven-year contract exceeding $100 million with a long-standing strategic partner in the international defense sector. The agreement ensures annual ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
ESA and Hisdesat prepare to launch advanced secure communications satellite
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 29, 2025
Hisdesat, Spain's leading provider of secure satellite communications, is set to launch the SpainSat Next Generation I (SNG I) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 29 at 20:34 EST (J ... more
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