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Mainland Europe's first orbital rocket launch postponed![]() ![]() Oslo (AFP) Mar 24, 2025 A German start-up on Monday postponed a test flight of its Spectrum rocket from Norway's Andoya Spaceport in the Arctic, seen as a key step in Europe's new space economy. The Munich-based company Isar Aerospace said in a statement it had cancelled Monday's flight "due to unfavourable winds" and that it was working to find a new launch date. A re-scheduled launch would be the first flight of an orbital launch vehicle from the European continent, excluding Russia. It would also be Europe's fir ... read more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2025 Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres... and the team are now working hard to understand their origin. It has n ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2025 Chinese scientists have precisely dated the moon's oldest and largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, to 4.25 billion years ago using lunar samples returned by the Chang'e-6 missi ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Following recent confirmation from NASA and NOAA that Solar Cycle 25 has reached its apex, attention has turned to mitigating the risks posed by heightened solar activity. The increased sunspot coun ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 NASA's SPHEREx mission, newly launched into low Earth orbit on March 11, has taken a major step toward beginning its cosmic survey by discarding its dust cover. On March 18, mission controllers succ ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oslo (AFP) Mar 24, 2025 A German start-up hopes to conduct Monday a test flight of its Spectrum rocket from Norway's Andoya Spaceport, a first for Europe which is keen to maintain its access to space. ... more |
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![]() Urbana, IL (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about primitive materials from exoplanetary star systems. They pass through our so ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Data from the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite is already delivering significant scientific insights, even though the survey has only just begun. Launched in July 2023, Euclid is embarking o ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 A startling cosmic discovery has shed light on a potential future for the Milky Way, revealing that it could one day generate powerful radiation jets capable of endangering life on Earth. Astr ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 China has reached a pivotal achievement in space science with the official completion and national acceptance of Phase II of the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP) on March 21. This endeavor marks the e ... more |
![]() Fairbanks AK (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Ea ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Botswana has entered the space age with the successful launch of BOTSAT-1, the nation's first satellite, developed through a collaboration between Botswana International University of Science and Te ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace (KONGSBERG) has taken a major step into the space sector by launching and now operating its first microsatellite, marking the company's transition into satellite-base ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Dozens of advanced integrated circuits, etched into a polished silicon wafer, await separation into individual chips tailored for the rigors of space. These precision-engineered components feature u ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 BlueHalo has reached a major milestone in space-based communications, successfully demonstrating its two-terminal, long-haul laser communication system designed for use across multiple orbital regim ... more |
![]() Rome, Italy (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Quantum gravity, the elusive framework that would merge general relativity with quantum mechanics, remains one of modern physics' greatest unsolved puzzles. One of the most promising candidates for ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Galactic Energy, a Beijing-based private aerospace firm, successfully launched its Ceres 1 rocket on Friday evening, sending six satellites into orbit to support China's growing space-based weather ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou XIX mission successfully completed their third extravehicular activity (EVA), spending nearly seven hours working outside the Tiangong space station, according to ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2025 There are better maps of the Moon's surface than of the bottom of Earth's ocean. Researchers have been working for decades to change that. As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recent ... more |
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![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Framatome and Perpetual Atomics have formalised a new strategic partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aiming to scale up the production of americium-based radioisotope power syste ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced the successful conclusion of its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite's primary mission, which began with its June 2019 launch. The satellite h ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 Unusual geological formations discovered in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia suggest that an unidentified microorganism once inhabited marble and limestone in these regions. Researcher ... more ![]() ![]() Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy - the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ligh ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 ATLAS Space Operations has partnered with satellite communications leader Viasat, Inc. to deliver essential support for NASA's current and future missions. Viasat, among the initial group of four fi ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), an established leader in space systems and launch solutions, has confirmed the rapid scheduling of an Electron mission for OroraT ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said Thursday, offering further evidence that stars in the early universe matured far quicker than had been thought possible. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 The H.E.R.M.E.S. Constellation, operated by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), successfully embarked on its pathfinder mission following a launch aboard SpaceX's Transporter 13 mission. Lift-off occurr ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 20, 2025 Space Forge has achieved a historic milestone in the UK space industry by securing a launch licence from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for its ForgeStar-1 satellite, the nation's first in-or ... more |
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