ST. LOUIS — The Trump administration’s push to modernize missile defense could open new opportunities for the commercial remote-sensing industry, according to Eric Jensen, CEO of Iceye U.S., a subsidiary of Finnish radar…
Category: 2. Space
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Sophia Space raises $3.5 million for orbiting data centers
ST. LOUIS – Sophia Space raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop orbiting compute and data centers with key geospatial intelligence applications.
The Southern California startup’s modular data centers will be particularly…
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Data from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals early structures in the universe
University of Heidelberg. “Data from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals early structures in the universe.” Nanowerk, 19 May 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=66835.php.
University of Heidelberg. (2025, May 19). Data…
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NASA Mission Captures Eerie New View of The Moon And Sun : ScienceAlert
A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit.
The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched on 11 March 2025, and its early glimpses of the…
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China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28
HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet.
The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being integrated with a Long March 3B rocket at the…
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Voyager Technologies files to go public
WASHINGTON — Space and defense company Voyager Technologies has filed paperwork to go public, revealing details about the company’s finances and plans for its largest project.
Voyager filed a preliminary prospectus for its planned…
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Streaked slopes on Mars probably not signs of water flow, study finds
CaSSIS camera aboard ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captures dark finger-like slope streaks extending across Mars’ dusty surface in Arabia Terra. New research by Bickel and… Continue Reading
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NASA’s PUNCH Reveals the Sun’s Invisible Winds in Stunning 3D Rainbow Color
NASA’s PUNCH mission just delivered its dazzling first images, including a rainbow-colored look at the solar sky. Using light polarization, this unique view helps scientists understand how the Sun’s outer atmosphere flows into space as the…
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Cosmic Smash-Ups Expose Mars’ Hidden Ice and Rock Layers
Scientists have discovered a new way to uncover what lies beneath the surfaces of planets like Mars by studying the debris spread from impact craters. Using simulations and real Martian data, they showed that the size of a crater’s ejecta…
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Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time
Against all odds, NASA engineers brought back to life a set of Voyager 1’s thrusters thought to be dead since 2004. With the spacecraft now in deep interstellar space, the fix was driven by growing concerns that its currently used thrusters…
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