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NASA outlined an ambitious roadmap that includes a permanent lunar base and the development of nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) spacecraft, a technology that could dramatically shorten travel times to the outer planets. Dr. Hannah Sargeant explained how NEP’s high efficiency and low thrust make it ideal for deep‑space missions, despite decades of technical hurdles. Meanwhile, CERN successfully transported a small quantity of antimatter around its campus, showcasing unprecedented control over one of physics’ most elusive substances. The episode also touched on rising UK beaver populations and advances in brain‑preservation research.
Government agencies are increasingly using commercial contracting models for space hardware, but most advanced capabilities still rely on the government as the sole customer. Executives from Impulse Space, Rendezvous Robotics, and Momentus argue that high‑performance, defense‑oriented technologies lack commercial demand....
NASA announced that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled after integrating its two primary segments at Goddard’s largest clean room. The agency will host a media briefing on April 21, with a live‑streamed news conference, to...
NASA is initiating the final countdown for Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed lunar mission scheduled for Jan. 17, 2026. The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are being moved to Launch Pad 39B, where a detailed L‑minus and T‑minus timeline will guide fueling, system...
Swiss startup Pave Space closed a $40 million seed round led by Visionaries Club and Creandum to develop a 20‑metric‑ton heavy‑kickstage capable of transferring satellites from low‑Earth orbit to GEO, MEO or lunar trajectories in less than a day. The funding...
German‑based PAVE Space announced the close of a $40 million seed round, led by Visionaries Club, Creandum and other investors. The funding will be used to develop its orbital transfer vehicles, LYOBA and IBEX, designed to reposition satellites from low‑Earth orbit...
Writing a talk that includes this gem from Apollo 12 so thought I’d share it! Also if you know where those TV transmissions might live let me know, Google has truly become crap as a search engine. #author #history #space...
A team led by Giulia Rodighiero used JWST data to uncover galaxy EGS‑z11‑R0 at redshift 11.45, making it the most distant red galaxy ever observed. The find shows a massive, dust‑rich system existing when the universe was only a few...
China successfully launched two synthetic‑aperture radar satellites aboard a Long March 2D from Taiyuan, expanding its all‑weather imaging capability for both civilian and military use. The launch adds to China’s fourteen orbital missions in 2026, still far behind SpaceX’s thirty‑seven launches that...
Satlantis posted 2025 revenue of €47.8 million (about $56.4 million), with EBITDA of €14.4 million (≈$16.9 million). More than half of the income came from small‑satellite sales and operations, while optical payloads grew to 30% of total revenue. The company announced a FlexSat program...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion, seven‑year roadmap to build a permanent lunar base, accelerate Artemis launches to a twice‑yearly cadence and launch a nuclear‑propelled Mars mission by 2028. The plan reshapes U.S. space policy, redirects Gateway resources and...
Novaspace’s latest HTS report projects global high‑throughput satellite demand to reach 218 Tbps and service revenues to climb to $76 billion by 2034, more than double current levels. The surge is fueled by rapid NGSO constellation growth, especially Starlink, which has reset...
ST Engineering iDirect and G&S SatCom have been honored with the Satellite Innovation Group Cooperation of the Year award for integrating G&S SatConnect® into iDirect’s next‑generation Intuition ground system. The combined platform unifies network operations, service management, and OSS/BSS through...
Beyond Earth Ventures is hosting a Q1 Office Hours webinar on March 31, featuring founding partner Alexandra Vidyuk and managing director Patrick Beatty. The session will dissect the potential SpaceX IPO, unpack NASA's latest moon‑base initiatives, and analyze current M&A...
Vodafone Ireland and Satellite Connect Europe, the joint venture with AST SpaceMobile, completed Ireland’s first mobile video call via satellite using a regular smartphone and the AST Bluebird satellite. The call originated from a dead‑zone on Clare Island, County Mayo,...
Norway and Iceland have signed agreements to join the European Union’s GOVSATCOM and IRIS2 secure communications programmes. GOVSATCOM, launched in January, provides interim secure satellite capacity, while the €10.6 billion IRIS2 project will deploy about 290 satellites by 2030. Iceland will...
Denmark’s LUNA consortium—Aalborg University, Pri‑Dana Elektronik and GomSpace—has launched a three‑year effort to create low‑loss, multiband nanosatellite antennas with mechanical beam steering. Backed by Innovation Fund Denmark, the project receives roughly $3 million in funding, with GomSpace contributing about $1.1 million. The...
OrbitsIQ Global announced the validation of its Enhanced Spread Spectrum Aloha (E‑SSA) waveform, co‑developed with Wrocław Tech and backed by ESA. The new protocol lets up to 500 devices share a single 4 MHz channel, processing roughly 30,000 frames per second...
The future of AI infrastructure may move off the planet entirely as space offers continuous solar energy and a natural vacuum for radiating massive GPU heat. If launch costs continue to fall the biggest supercomputers will no longer sit in...
I agree this is the most significant statement, an acknowledgement of the reality that Starlink demand is not unlimited. 20K V3 BB sats is enough for 200M+ users worldwide, 1200 V2 DTC satellites may be sufficient for occasional use by...
NASA announced a new catalogue of 45 rocky exoplanets that lie within their stars' habitable zones. Compiled by Professor Lisa Kaltenegger's team, the list is intended to focus upcoming observations with JWST and the Roman Space Telescope on the most...
.@Open_Cosmos @RafelJorda, under September @ITU deadline for Ka-band constellation: 'We're building satellites like there's no tomorrow, 24/7, at our four sites.' @esa @TesatSpacecom @trans_celestial. https://t.co/25uSLtzteI https://t.co/avruEhlyux
NASA's new "Ignition" website (https://t.co/hkp5h15SSN) now has the Powerpoints from Tuesday. Keep scrolling down past "media resources" to each topic. Fact sheets and links to the RFIs/RFPs are there too.
Rumors that Elon Musk's SpaceX will file an IPO prospectus this week ignited buying across space‑linked equities, lifting EchoStar 5%, Rocket Lab 3% and AST SpaceMobile 3%. Analysts estimate the offering could raise more than $75 billion at a valuation above...
The rollout of the first Soyuz-5 rocket to launch pad Site 45 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, was postponed from today to March 29, in turn, pushing its inaugural flight to April 2, at the earliest, according to Kazakh media. Context: https://t.co/DBcHRiQe36 https://t.co/S8p6AAE3IL
Interlune, a lunar‑resource startup, announced that its first customers are ready to purchase helium‑3 extracted from the Moon. Helium‑3 is touted as a fuel for next‑generation nuclear fusion reactors that produce no long‑lived radioactive waste. The company highlights the technical...
Ireland’s fourth progress report on the 2019‑2025 National Space Strategy shows the sector expanding rapidly, with government ESA funding rising 43% to €32.17 million (≈$35 million) in 2024. Irish firms secured 55 ESA contracts worth €24.56 million (≈$27 million) and 116 companies now participate...
Vodafone Ireland completed Ireland’s first mobile video call routed through an AST SpaceMobile satellite using a regular smartphone, showcasing a sovereign‑network alternative to Starlink. Meanwhile, KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners have tabled bids of €6‑8 bn (≈$6.9‑$9.2 bn) for Patrick Drahi’s XpFibre...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a new plan to transition from the International Space Station to Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs) by adding a core module that can power and support up to two commercial segments before detaching. Lawmakers on the...
.@MDA_space CEO @MGreenley details status of @Telesat Lightspeed, @Globalstar's 17-sat replacement order and Globalstar's 50+ satellite C-3 constellation and a 'neutral host' constellation idea that MNOs seem to like. @Apple.https://t.co/QiIcACD0Zf https://t.co/EJDK27EjeF
Agnikul Cosmos successfully hot‑fired its Agnite booster engine, a one‑metre, single‑piece Inconel rocket engine printed in just seven days. The monolithic design eliminates welding, machining and assembly, cutting manufacturing cost to roughly one‑tenth of conventional methods. The engine uses electric‑motor‑driven...
On 12 March, ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznański‑Wiśniewski delivered a talk at CERN about his 26 June‑14 July 2025 stay aboard the International Space Station. He detailed the Ignis mission, a Polish‑led scientific program conducted with ESA, and explained how a CERN‑developed space‑radiation monitor was installed...
A Beijing‑based startup successfully tested a flexible, reconfigurable robotic arm capable of handling multiple fuel line geometries in micro‑gravity. The demonstration marks the first on‑orbit refueling trial of a flexible manipulator and could accelerate satellite servicing and deep‑space logistics. Details...
Gotonomi and Embention have combined Gotonomi SATCOM terminals with Embention’s Veronte autopilots to create a reliable BVLOS communication solution. The Velaris‑200 terminal acts as an IP gateway, routing data through Viasat’s L‑band satellite network to VeronteCloud. Telemetry is limited to...
CMA Technology has partnered with Rivada Space Networks to resell its Outernet, a 600‑satellite low‑Earth‑orbit mesh that provides secure, low‑latency connectivity. Rivada reports over $19 billion in global business tied to the network, which routes data entirely in space via laser...
Amazon to FCC: Everyone Supports a Leo Satellite Launch Extension, Except SpaceX https://t.co/mzYuITGCAw #SpaceEconomy https://t.co/9rYGlrjkES
One of the three major space powers in Europe signals its strong support for the Ignition plan to develop a sprawling lunar base over the next decade.
Amid a near‑total internet blackout in Iran, U.S.‑based activist groups are covertly supplying Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite terminals to keep Iranians online. NetFreedom Pioneers reports delivering more than 300 devices, while Holistic Resilience estimates over 50,000 terminals now operating inside...
NASA Gears Up for Artemis II Launch Around the Moon a Week From Now https://t.co/EkQMgSOIZJ
SES announced a strategic partnership with K2 Space to develop the meoSphere medium‑Earth‑orbit broadband constellation. The rollout will begin with a Spring 2026 pathfinder on SpaceX’s Transporter‑16, scale to 28 satellites by 2029 and reach full operational capability in 2030, positioning...
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines a $180.4 million contract under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program for its fifth task order, dubbed IM‑5. The mission will deploy a larger Nova‑D lunar lander to the South‑Pole ridge Mons Malapert, delivering seven science...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command completed its second Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) exercise, Victus Diem, using a tabletop and field‑training simulation rather than an actual launch. The drill demonstrated that payload processing, checkout, and encapsulation can be completed...
LAUNCH at 2251 UTC Mar 25 of the Siwei Gaojing 2-05 and 2-06 commercial imaging satellites by CZ-2D from Taiyuan
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion, seven‑year program to build a permanent lunar base and a nuclear‑electric propulsion spacecraft to Mars by 2028. The shift cancels the Lunar Gateway station, repurposes its hardware, and accelerates commercial lander development, signaling...
Australia’s Cyber Security Centre, together with international partners, warned that commercial low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) satellite operators can deliver connectivity to Australian users without a local footprint, leaving data outside the reach of domestic privacy laws. The advisory highlights that LEO constellations...
Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million, ten‑year SETI program announced in July 2015 by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, has deployed a global network of radio and optical telescopes to scan one million nearby stars, the Galactic plane and 100 galaxies for artificial signals. The...
.@isaraerospace launch aborts at second of scheduled liftoff, cause unclear. countdown had been delayed by a boat in launch area earlier. https://t.co/TXLNBwmRVz
There's a new object cataloged as 68376 and tagged as a debris object from the 2026-009 ALSAT-3A launch; it's in the catalog number range I was expecting for the 2026-061 Rassvet launch, but no TLEs for that launch yet.
Space Force orbital data now out for StriX-6, launched on Mar 20, showing it in a 557 x 580 km x 50.3 deg orbit with Electron stages in 173 x 491 km and 340 x 558 km.
