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Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close
This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take […]
NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice
This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch for another year, scientists started preparing for its use during a recent field campaign in the Canadian wilderness. Researchers spent two weeks […]
Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow
Thirty years after the European Space Agency first demonstrated the power of flying two satellites in very close formation, the concept was recently recreated. By temporarily positioning two Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellites to replicate the pioneering ERS-1–ERS-2 ‘tandem mission’, ESA achieved one-day repeat radar imaging of the same Antarctic region.
Volatility is often the price of ambition
For the growing number of constellations being designed around Starship, the wild ups and downs in the early days of SpaceX’s historic IPO have a familiar rhythm. While some of […]
Xona unveils program to verify Pulsar-compatible devices
SAN FRANCISCO – Xona, the Silicon Valley startup establishing Pulsar, a precision positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) constellation, announced a high-profile roster of partners developing compatible equipment. Xona unveiled the […]
Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman
In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, David Ariosto talks with Victoria Coleman, the former chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force who now serves as associate provost of […]
Space Force completes procurement reorganization, creating nine acquisition portfolios
New portfolio acquisition executives will control requirements and modernization decisions across major mission areas
ArianeGroup Tests Upgraded Ariane 6 Upper Stage Rocket Engine
Details of a previously unannounced test campaign involving an upgraded Ariane 6 rocket engine have emerged in the 2025 annual accounts of ArianeGroup SAS, the group’s French entity. The filings describe the testing of a 200-kilonewton version of the rocket’s Vinci upper stage engine at DLR’s Lampoldshausen facility in Germany. The upgrade increases the engine’s […]
The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company
"I think it's fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this."
Space Force awards Pulse Space $40 million to advance laser power technology
The startup is developing laser systems that transmit power and data between spacecraft
The hidden flow
From the ESA Blogs.
Golden Dome and the search for new space markets
Even as many details of Golden Dome remain unsettled, the missile-defense program has become a focal point for space and defense startups looking for new markets
Blue Origin seeks to raise $10 billion in outside capital
Blue Origin is planning to raise $10 billion in the company’s first outside investment to support its ambitions in launch services and satellite constellations.
MDA Space buys French Earth data analytics company CLS
Canadian company MDA Space is buying a French Earth data analytics company in its second big acquisition in recent weeks, part of wave of mergers and acquisitions in the industry.
Navigation Training Course 2026
From the ESA Blogs.
Super Typhoon Bavi
The third category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 crossed the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward Asia.
New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industry
Singapore’s new space agency signed a cooperation agreement with its Japanese counterpart as part of its efforts to build up the country’s space industry.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 36th flight
The flight-leading booster, B1067, will launch the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC) on Thursday morning.
Rocket Lab sees Electron gains, Neutron delays in first half of 2026
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket has had a record stretch through the first half of 2026,…
ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to deliver larger payloads to the moon.