Category: 2. Space

Imagine having seamless mobile broadband access anywhere on Earth, from the most remote deserts and oceans to disaster zones, all without the need for cell towers. That’s the promise of direct-to-cell (D2C) satellite communication, a…

WASHINGTON — An escalating feud between President Trump and Elon Musk June 5 included threats to cancel SpaceX contracts and decommission spacecraft, although those words have yet to become actions.

In a heated exchange largely carried…

It’s one thing to talk about commercial geospatial intelligence and another to see it.
At the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis last month, companies displayed their latest imagery and discussed insights analysts can draw from diverse…

A galaxy ablaze with young stars is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Named NGC 685, this galaxy is situated about 64 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (the River). NGC 685 is a barred spiral…

Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian. “Key building block for life discovered in planet-forming disk.” Nanowerk, 6 June 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=67000.php.

Center for Astrophysics, Harvard &…

HELSINKI — China launched a fourth group of satellites for its Guowang low Earth orbit megaconstellation Thursday, but released few details about the payload or objectives.

A Long March 6A rocket lifted off at 4:45 p.m. Eastern (2045 UTC)…

WASHINGTON — Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5.

Resilience was scheduled to land at 3:17 p.m. Eastern at Mare Frigoris, a region at about 60 degrees north…

There’s something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn’s largest moon: rather than staying constantly fixed in line with its surface, the atmosphere wobbles across the course of the seasons.

The discovery was made in…

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee unveiled a proposal to add $10 billion to a budget reconciliation bill to offset changes to NASA human spaceflight and exploration programs in the administration’s budget…