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March 04, 2025
VSAT NEWS
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile Establish Joint Venture for European Satellite Mobile Services



London, UK (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD), a leading telecommunications provider in Europe and Africa, and AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company developing the first space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by standard mobile devices, have announced a strategic agreement to form a new European satellite service business, "SatCo." SatCo aims to deliver seamless satellite-based mobile broadband services to mobile network operators (MNOs) across Europe, ensuring full geographic cover ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab Sets Launch Window for First of Multiple iQPS Missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global provider of launch and space systems, has announced the scheduled launch window for its 61st Electron mission, dedicated to Japan's Institute for Q-shu ... more
TECH SPACE
Spire Establishes Two-Way Optical Link Between Satellites in Orbit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a leading provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, has successfully demonstrated a two-way optical communication link between two satellites in o ... more
SPACEMART
Maxar Space Systems Secures Contract for New High-Power Communications Satellite
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
Maxar Space Systems, a leader in satellite manufacturing and advanced space solutions, has been awarded a contract to develop a geostationary (GEO) high-power communications satellite for a private ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX calls off Starship test flight at last minute
Washington (AFP) Mar 4, 2025
Elon Musk's SpaceX called off the latest test flight of its Starship rocket just before its scheduled launch on Monday, citing an unspecified problem with the behemoth spacecraft. ... more
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SpaceX deploys a batch of 21 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 2, 2025
SpaceX on Sunday night launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 Starlink satellites into space from Florida's coast. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
UK's Royal Society of top scientists mulls call to oust Elon Musk
London (AFP) Mar 3, 2025
Britain's Royal Society will hold a crunch meeting on Monday following calls to expel technology billionaire Elon Musk, the world's richest man, from the prestigious institute of scientists. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launch postponed due to 'anomaly'
Kourou (AFP) Mar 4, 2025
Minutes before it was scheduled to launch Monday, the first commercial mission of Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 was called off due to an "anomaly" on the ground. ... more
MOON DAILY
Private US company aces lunar landing on first mission
Washington (AFP) Mar 2, 2025
A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon on Sunday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone - and the first to do so upright. ... more

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MOON DAILY
UAE sends AI-equipped drones to spot Ramadan moon
Dubai (AFP) Feb 28, 2025
The United Arab Emirates is flying AI-equipped drones to help spot the crescent moon marking the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, official media said on Friday. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Nuclear fusion milestone: WEST sustains plasma for record 1,337 seconds
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2025
The WEST tokamak, operated at the CEA Cadarache site in southern France, has set a new benchmark in nuclear fusion research by maintaining a plasma for an unprecedented 1,337 seconds on February 12. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Will neutrons compromise the operation of superconducting magnets in a fusion plant?
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
High-temperature superconducting magnets made from REBCO, an acronym for rare earth barium copper oxide, make it possible to create an intense magnetic field that can confine the extremely hot plasm ... more
MOON DAILY
Rocket Lab Space Software Aids in Successful Lunar Landing for Firefly's Blue Ghost 1 Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has played a key role in the successful Moon landing of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which touched down on March 2 at 8:34 a.m. UTC (3:34 a.m. ET). T ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China advances manned lunar program for 2030 moon landing
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
China is making steady strides toward its goal of landing astronauts on the moon by 2030, with research and development efforts progressing as scheduled, the China Manned Space Agency announced Mond ... more
ICE WORLD
Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Around 2.5 million years ago, Earth began experiencing alternating glacial and interglacial periods, with the last ice age concluding approximately 11,700 years ago. Now, a new study indicates that ... more
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PolyU and Global Team Harness Satellite Data to Decode Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), in collaboration with an international team of scientists, have leveraged advanced satellite positioning data to monitor the behavior o ... more
TECTONICS
Studying the evolutionary history of continent-sized regions in the deep mantle
London, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
A recent study led by scientists from Cardiff University, the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and the University of Michigan has unveiled distinct differences in the evolutionary hi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab's Pioneer Aids Varda's Capsule Re-Entry in In-Space Manufacturing Mission
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully facilitated the re-entry of Varda Space Industries' capsule using its custom-built Pioneer spacecraft. The capsule, part of Varda's W-2 mission, ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar Research Facility Lands on Moon for Regolith Study
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
The Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) experiment has successfully arrived on the lunar surface, where it will operate for one full lunar day-equivalent to 14 Earth days-conducting research o ... more
MOON DAILY
Japan startup targets June 6 Moon landing
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 4, 2025
Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its Moon lander, following the success of its rocket "rideshare" buddy, a spacecraft from a US firm. ... more
EXO WORLDS
NASA Webb Unveils Atmospheric Complexity of Isolated Super-Jupiter
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
An international team of scientists has determined that the fluctuating brightness of SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary-mass object, results from a complex interplay of atmospheric factors rather ... more
SPACEWAR
AST SpaceMobile Secures $43 Million Agreement to Support U.S. Space Development Agency
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company pioneering the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile devices, has announc ... more
TECH SPACE
UAF scientist designing satellite to hunt small space debris
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is participating in a U.S. government effort to design a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than on ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Supercomputing an improved rocket
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
A new type of rocket engine that could improve aircraft, spacecraft, and other transportation systems is being developed by private and public institutions such as NASA and the Air Force Research La ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
European satellite launcher set for first commercial blast off
Paris (AFP) Mar 1, 2025
After several postponements, Europe's Ariane 6 launcher will carry out its first commercial mission on Monday when it puts a French military intelligence satellite into space. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Star Mergers' Magnetic Outflows Spawn Universe's Highest-Energy Particles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are the most energetic particles known in the universe, with energies exceeding those attainable by human-made accelerators by more than a million times. Despit ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
New Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Latest Observations
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
A research team from Tokyo Metropolitan University has made significant progress in the ongoing search for dark matter. Utilizing advanced spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope, ... more
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DRAGON SPACE
Shenzhou XIX crew successfully tests pipeline inspection robot on space station
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
The crew of China's Shenzhou XIX mission has completed a pivotal in-orbit test of a pipeline inspection robot aboard the Tiangong space station, marking a major step forward in space station mainten ... more
SPACEWAR
GMV secures contract to provide Spanish Air and Space Force with advanced space operations simulator
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
The Spanish Air and Space Force's Logistics Support Command (MALOG), through its Directorate-General of Procurement (DAD), has awarded GMV a contract to develop and implement a cutting-edge simulato ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Maxar Space Systems Ships First Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Spacecraft to L3Harris
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
Maxar Space Systems, a leader in satellite manufacturing and space technology solutions, has delivered the first of 16 spacecraft buses to L3Harris Technologies [NYSE: LHX] in support of the Space D ... more
MOON DAILY
Chang'e 6 Samples Confirm Global Magma Ocean on Early Moon
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
A recent analysis of lunar samples retrieved by China's Chang'e 6 mission has provided substantial evidence supporting the theory that the moon was once enveloped in a global molten "magma ocean" fo ... more
IRON AND ICE
NASA Selects Scientists to Join Lucy Mission Studying Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
NASA has chosen eight scientists to participate in its Lucy mission, an initiative aimed at studying the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These celestial bodies, considered remnants from the early solar sy ... more
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