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March 26, 2025
MOON DAILY
JAXA adopts Spirent lunar navigation simulation to advance Moon missions



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), a leader in test and assurance solutions for emerging network technologies, has been chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to deliver an advanced lunar positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) simulation system. This groundbreaking tool is designed to underpin JAXA's ongoing lunar exploration efforts and support the creation of essential navigation systems for future Moon missions. The PNT X platform developed by Spirent allows JAXA to condu ... read more

MARSDAILY
NASA's rover Curiosity finds biggest known organic molecules on Mars
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2025
The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago on the Red Planet. ... more
MARSDAILY
Sols 4488-4490: Progress Through the Ankle-Breaking Terrain
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 26, 2025
Earth planning date: Friday, March 21, 2025: It's the start of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere on Earth, but in Gale Crater on Mars our rover is still heading into the depths of Martian winte ... more
MARSDAILY
Mars climate contrast deepens with new atmospheric wave study
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Atmospheric waves, which resemble ripples that spread across water surfaces, have long intrigued scientists for their role in planetary climate systems. A new international study titled "Atmospheric ... more
MOON DAILY
Firefly taps Honeybee Robotics to deliver rover for 2028 Moon dome mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Firefly Aerospace has selected Honeybee Robotics, a subsidiary of Blue Origin, to supply a lunar rover for its upcoming 2028 mission to the Gruithuisen Domes, located on the Moon's near side. The mi ... more
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TIME AND SPACE
ACES mission moves closer to launch from ISS
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) has reached NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a pivotal step in its upcoming deployment to the International Space Station. This European-le ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Dialing in the temperature needed for precise nuclear timekeeping
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 18, 2025
For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers at JILA, led by ... more
EXO WORLDS
Were large soda lakes the cradle of life
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Phosphorus, alongside nitrogen and carbon, forms one of the fundamental building blocks for life on Earth. It is integral to DNA, RNA, and ATP-molecules essential for storing genetic information and ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
FSU researchers part of TESSERACT's hunt for dark matter
Tallahassee, FL (SPX) Mar 25, 2025
For decades, people have been trying to directly detect dark matter: the missing mass in our universe. Now, research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is making possible a new, super-sensitiv ... more

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS


SOLAR SCIENCE
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 23rd Close Approach to Sun
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 23rd close approach to the Sun on March 22, equaling its own distance record by coming within about 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar su ... more
TECH SPACE
Airbus adopts Astroscale Gen 2 docking plates for enhanced satellite sustainability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Astroscale Limited ("Astroscale UK"), the UK arm of Astroscale Holdings Inc., has reached a significant milestone as Airbus Defence and Space becomes the first major commercial buyer of its second-g ... more
TECH SPACE
Eco-friendly rare earth element separation: A bioinspired solution to an industry challenge
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 18, 2025
From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced technologies. These elements, which include the lanthanides along with scandium a ... more
GPS NEWS
Maxar unveils Raptor software suite for GPS-free navigation in autonomous systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Maxar Intelligence has introduced Raptor, a next-generation software platform engineered to support autonomous drones with reliable navigation and precise ground coordinate extraction in GPS-denied ... more
TECH SPACE
Sidus Space Expands Presence in Asia With Orlaith AI and FeatherEdge Technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a dynamic and forward-looking provider of space mission solutions, has secured a new purchase order from a prominent research and development institution in Asia. This ag ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Planet selected to support California emissions tracking program with satellite data
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a prominent supplier of Earth observation data, has been named the lead subcontractor under California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Satellite Data Purchase Program (SDPP) ... more
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Advancing ultrafast spintronics for future memory and computing applications
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2025
UC Riverside has secured nearly $4 million through a Collaborative Research and Training Award from the UC National Laboratory Fees Research Program to investigate the potential of antiferromagnetic ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Botswana launches first national satellite with Dragonfly Aerospace support
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
MICROSAT BLITZ
KONGSBERG enters satellite operations with inaugural launch
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
PHYSICS NEWS
Deep sea neutrino study places tighter constraints on quantum gravity
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
MICROSAT BLITZ
Exolaunch to Deploy Canadian CubeSats in Support of STEM Space Initiative
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2025
Exolaunch has finalized a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to facilitate the deployment of CubeSats under the CUBICS (CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM) prog ... more
MOON DAILY
Redwire expands space-based pharmaceutical research under new NASA contract
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a space infrastructure company serving the growing space economy, has secured a new NASA contract to send four additional pharmaceutical studies to the International ... more
EXO WORLDS
Fluorescent caves could explain how life persists in extraterrestrial environments
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green. Sci ... more
EXO WORLDS
China sends regenerative flatworms to orbit for biological research
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
China's space station will soon host an unusual biological subject for experimentation: the planarian, a species of flatworm distinguished by its extraordinary regenerative powers, according to a re ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX rocket fuel makes stunning swirl in European sky
Paris (AFP) Mar 25, 2025
A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and scientists. ... more
TECH SPACE
Radiation belt wisp mapped inside anomaly by Macao satellite
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
This research, led by Professor Zong of Peking University in collaboration with the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Science at Macau University of Science and Technology, has yielded new ... more
VSAT NEWS
Lynk and Turkcell Achieve Milestone in Satellite Mobile Service Trial
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Lynk Global, Inc., a pioneer in satellite-direct-to-device (D2D) communications, has completed a successful demonstration of its proprietary technology in collaboration with Turkcell (NYSE: TKC), Tu ... more
TECH SPACE
NASA cloud tech empowers private mission planners
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Planning a space mission demands precision-ensuring trajectories align and fuel margins hold is critical to sustaining orbital operations. Continuum Space Systems Inc., based in Pasadena, California ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE
Aerospace engineers to study motion sickness in space
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Don't tell Neil Armstrong, but giant leaps for mankind may leave astronauts feeling a little queasy. In a new experiment, aerospace engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder will work wi ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Biomass satellite to lift off aboard Vega C in late April
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 6:15 a.m. local time (09:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 a.m. CEST), Arianespace will launch ESA's Biomass Earth Explorer satellite aboard a Vega C rocket from Europe's Spaceport i ... more
EXO WORLDS
Super Earth uncovered by tandem space observations
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
An international research collaboration, including scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, has identified a new super-Earth circli ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Delft and Brown researchers unveil ultrathin sails for laser propulsion in space
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 25, 2025
Researchers from Delft University of Technology and Brown University have introduced a breakthrough in nanotechnology with the development of large-scale, ultrathin lightsails, poised to accelerate ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
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. ... more
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