SpaceX’s fiery Falcon 9 comes in for a landing | Space photo of the day for Nov. 7, 2025 (Image Credit: Space.com) Early in the morning of Nov. 2 , 2025, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket roared off its pad at the Space Launch Complex in Cape Canaveral, carrying the dedicated rideshare mission […]
This company wants to be the 1st to launch human remains to Mars. Will it ever get there? (Image Credit: Space.com) While Mars looms as the next destination for humanity’s expansion into our solar system, there are significant hurdles, technological issues, financial concerns, and astrophysical logistics to overcome before placing boots on […]
SES delivers unprecedented MEO satellite connectivity for French Navy’s Clemenceau 25 mission (Image Credit: Sat News) SES announced that the French Navy’s aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle leveraged its secure and reliable O3b mPOWER satcom service — Managed Naval mPOWERED — during the Clemenceau 25 mission. This high-throughput, low-latency Medium Earth Orbit […]
Forrester’s Digest: Starlink readies India launch (Image Credit: Sat News) Broadband satellite operator Starlink is reported locally to launching its service over India later in 2025. Starlink has received provisional spectrum from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Competition is likely to be tough with similar services promised by Reliance’s Jio Platforms (in […]
Indra Group deploys advanced SATCOM to provide assistance during health and climate emergencies (Image Credit: Sat News) As part of the European 5G-HUB project, Indra is developing a state-of-the-art, interoperable, 5G satellite system to ensure secure, robust, and resilient data transmission from space in the event of a disaster or emergency in […]
Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the test (Image Credit: Phys.org) At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar. Future telescopes will make the differences more visible, making it possible to distinguish Einstein’s black holes from […]
Solar Orbiter provides first glimpse of the sun’s polar magnetic field in motion (Image Credit: Phys.org) The magnetic network on the solar surface leaves imprints in the chromosphere above. In images of this region taken by Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), these imprints appear as bright spots. This processed EUI image […]
SpaceX prepares Starship for 11th flight test on the 13th using a new engine configuration (Image Credit: Sat News) The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will […]
Many mini-Neptunes once thought to be lava worlds may actually have solid surfaces (Image Credit: Phys.org) A new study finds that many “mini-Neptunes”—perhaps the most common planets in the galaxy—are under so much pressure from their heavy atmospheres that the surface is likely compressed solid. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) As telescopes have […]