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New deployable structures could help astronauts maintain muscle mass in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) Jeffery Lipton, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern, was one of several researchers who boarded a parabolic flight to test the structure. Credit: Northeastern University From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number […]
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX extended its single-year launch record on Monday night (Nov. 10), sending yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites up from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off off Monday at 10:21 p.m. EST (0321 GMT […]
The technology group Rheinmetall and ICEYE have completed the establishment of their joint venture, Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions GmbH, based in Neuss, Germany. As the majority shareholder, Rheinmetall AG holds 60 percent of the shares in the joint venture, while ICEYE Oy holds 40 per cent. Just five months after the announcement in May […]
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX extended its single-year launch record on Monday night (Nov. 10), sending yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites up from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off off Monday at 10:21 p.m. EST (0321 GMT on […]
Space rescue services needed? 2 ‘stranded’ astronaut incidents are a ‘massive wake-up call,’ experts say (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s decision to delay the return of its Shenzhou 20 astronauts from the country’s space station due to a possible space debris impact has led to yet another “stranded in space” state of affairs. […]
Totally-eclipsing binary UZ Draconis inspected with TESS (Image Credit: Phys.org) TESS sector 84 photometry of UZ Draconis. The flux measurements have been converted to magnitude units after which the median was subtracted. The other sectors used in the study are very similar so are not plotted. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.27389 Astronomers […]
AI controls satellite attitude in orbit for first time (Image Credit: Phys.org) ADCS box (Attitude Determination and Control System) being installed in the qualification model of the InnoCube satellite. Credit: Tom Baumann / JMU Würzburg As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg […]
China breaks its single-year launch record with weekend flurry (Image Credit: Space.com) China just broke its single-year launch record — and with nearly two months left in 2025. Four Chinese rockets lifted off over the weekend, taking the nation’s total number of orbital missions this year to 72. The previous record, set […]
‘Shockingly large’ amount of sensitive satellite communications are unencrypted and vulnerable to interception, researchers find (Image Credit: Space.com) Cybersecurity researchers have intercepted vast quantities of private voice calls and text messages, including potentially sensitive communications of government and military officials, transmitted over completely unprotected satellite communication links. When the researchers decided to […]
‘Impossible’ merger of two massive black holes explained (Image Credit: Phys.org) A still image from a computer simulation of a black hole’s formation and evolution. Credit: Ore Gottleib/Simons Foundation In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses […]
