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Blue Origin launches 15th space flight for touristsWashington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025 Space tourism company Blue Origin launched six people in Texas on its 15th mission in the growing orbital tourism industry. ... more
DLR's ATHEAt Flight Experiment Achieves Hypersonic Milestone Over NorwayBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully launched its ATHEAt flight experiment from Andoya, Norway, marking a major advance in reusable space transportation technology. The sounding rocket ... more
Raytheon and Anduril achieve breakthrough test in advanced rocket propulsionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 Raytheon, an RTX business, and Anduril Industries have completed a successful static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munition ... more
Rocket Lab widens iQPS partnership with three more dedicated Electron launches starting 2026Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 Rocket Lab has signed a new multi-launch agreement with Japan's Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), adding three dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning ... more |
Trump jeopardising US role as scientific leader: Nobel officialsStockholm (AFP) Oct 2, 2025 Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. ... more
University of Mississippi Law School launches first fully online Air and Space Law master's degreeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-gr ... more
Navigating through interference at JammertestParis (ESA) Oct 07, 2025 is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption, natural or inten ... more
Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms RaceBudapest, Hungary (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 The launch of the US 'Golden Dome' missile defence initiative has already set in motion ripple effects across the globe. Rival nations are considering their own layered missile defence architectures ... more |
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Chinese astronauts complete fourth spacewalk of Shenzhou XX missionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 Crew members aboard the Shenzhou XX spacecraft carried out their fourth extravehicular activity, completing critical tasks outside the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency reported. ... more |
Ariane 6 set to deploy Copernicus Sentinel 1D on November 4Paris, France (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 On November 4, 2025 at 6:03 p.m. local time in French Guiana (9:03 p.m. UTC, 10:03 p.m. CET), Arianespace plans to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite aboard Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport ... more
New AI enhances the view inside fusion energy systemsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame ... more
SpaceX plans 11th test of Starship later this month from South TexasWashington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2025 SpaceX is planning the 11th flight test of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever developed, as early as Oct. 13 from South Texas. ... more
Sierra Space clears design milestone for missile tracking satellites in SDA Tranche 2Louisville CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Sierra Space has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 2 Tracking Layer, confirming readiness to begin production of missile tracking satellites ... more |
Beyond Gravity wins order to build robotic thruster mechanisms for HummingSat satellitesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Beyond Gravity has secured a contract to supply robotic thruster pointing mechanisms for five HummingSat geostationary telecommunications satellites being developed by Swiss satellite manufacturer S ... more ![]() |
Long March 2D reaches 100th mission milestone with dual satellite launchTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 The Long March 2D rocket has completed its 100th successful flight, placing two experimental satellites into orbit in a milestone mission for China's space program. The vehicle lifted off at 1 ... more
EU 'must respond' to Russia's 'hybrid warfare': von der LeyenStrasbourg, France Oct 8, 2025 EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday said Europe must ramp up its defences to deter Russia's "hybrid warfare", after a catalogue of air incursions, cyber attacks and damage to undersea cables. ... more
EU wants key sectors to use made-in-Europe AIStrasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 8, 2025 The EU on Wednesday told European businesses in critical sectors to ramp up their uptake of artificial intelligence and pushed for the bloc to cut its dependence on foreign AI providers. ... more
NATO drone competition highlightes use of autonomous technology in disaster reliefHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 This summer, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the SAPIENCE Drone Competition, an international Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) event s ... more |
Denmark closes airspace to civilian drones amid rise in sightingsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2025 Denmark will ban all civilian drones beginning Monday over safety concerns as Copenhagen prepares to host an EU summit on European defense. ... more
Next generation interceptor from Raytheon takes aim at drone warfareLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 Raytheon, an RTX business, has revealed a prototype for its Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI), a system designed to replace the combat-proven Stinger missile and meet the growing threa ... more
Space Force awards launch missions to SpaceX, ULAWashington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 The U.S. Space Force announced winning bids for missions, and SpaceX is the clear favorite. Space Systems Command awarded seven National Security Space Launch contracts last week. Five of the ... more
We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes earlier, more accuratelyAnn Arbor, MI (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ... more |
NRL robotic servicing payload passes thermal vacuum testing and moves closer to launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), working with DARPA and Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics, has cleared a major space-readiness hurdle for satellite servicing. On Sept. 5, the team completed ... more
Germany joins EU nations with plans to shoot down unknown dronesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025 Federal authorities in Germany were granted permission to shoot down drones following a series of recent sightings of unknown drones spotted near Munich. ... more
Iran dismissees Israel's missile concern as 'made-up threat'Tehran (AFP) Oct 7, 2025 Iran on Tuesday dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warnings over its missile programme as fabricated, after he alleged the Islamic republic was developing rockets capable of reaching US cities. ... more
Breakthrough in UAV swarm intelligence as SRI redefines topology mappingTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Unmanned swarm systems are revolutionizing fields from disaster relief to military reconnaissance, yet two obstacles have long hindered their reliability: precise trajectory prediction and transpare ... more |
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Revolutionising the Skies: How Helsing's CA-1 Europa Drone Could Transform Autonomous WarfareBudapest, Hungary (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Amid rising geopolitical tensions, Europe is accelerating its push into autonomous military technology. German AI defence firm Helsing recently unveiled its fully autonomous combat drone, the CA-1 E ... more |
EU eyes building 'drone wall': question is, what is it?Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 2, 2025 European Union leaders are discussing setting up a "drone wall" of defences after high-profile air incursions by Russia. ... more
German police to get power to shoot down drones: ministerBerlin (AFP) Oct 8, 2025 German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday, after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate. ... more
Lithuania builds shelters as drones prowl border skiesVilnius (AFP) Oct 2, 2025 Recent drone sorties over Lithuania and its neighbours have sparked fears of a full-scale Russian attack, prompting the small Baltic country to encourage the building of bomb shelters. ... more
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky unveils scalable Nomad drone family for autonomous long-range missionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 Less than a year after validating its rotor blown wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft in flight tests, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), has introduced the Nom ... more |
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