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July 28, 2026
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By: Hispaviación editorial staff Photo: Airbus The choice of the SGoSat ESA technology from Inster and Tecnobit (Grupo Oesía) for the Eurofighter LTE programme goes beyond a commercial deal; it…
On Monday, a Swiss Airbus A330-300 flying from Zurich to New York made an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine. The crew had reported smoke in the cockpit. After landing, it was initially…
28-07-2026 Grupo Oesía and Airbus Defence and Space have signed, at the aerospace multinational’s facilities in Getafe, the strategic contract for the design and development…
The DJI Lito X1 delivers impressive features and functionality, including omnidirectional obstacle sensing in a beginner-friendly package.
Written by Raoul Cardellini Leipertz Space is often presented as a story of progress, exploration, and opportunity. But who gets to be part of that story, and under what conditions? In the first…
NASA announces a new demonstration mission for autonomous navigation and rendezvous in lunar orbit
Grupo Oesía and Airbus Defence and Space have signed a contract for the development and manufacture of a hybrid, electronically steerable SATCOM antenna for the Eurofighter Long…
Image: Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Image: Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Learn how to photograph this captivating target. The post Solar Photography: Catch the Sun appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
Technicians have completed fuelling of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bringing it a major step closer to launch. Last Saturday, the team…
Amazon Leo has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy up to 5,105 new satellites designed to use Globalstar's spectrum with the…
California-based ORBES has unveiled Exo-ORB, a compact autonomous escort satellite that flies alongside large space assets to inspect, film and eventually maintain them, offering a 3rd person point…
Arianespace has announced Ariane 6's latest launch mission, launching the MTG-I2 meteorological satellite with the Ariane 62 configuration from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on the 27th of…
Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.
A delegation from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Miciu) visited on Friday the 24th the headquarters of Emxys, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of…
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July 27, 2026
The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat and the Satellite Navigation in Africa Support Programme (SatNav Africa JPO) have concluded a […] The post EAC Secretariat and SatNav Africa JPO Renew…
We've been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next…
NASA announces three astronaut spacewalks from the International Space Station (ISS) during next August to continue upgrading the solar arrays, replace a…
EUMETSAT, the European agency for meteorological and climate satellites, has appointed Chris Hartley as the new director of its Technical and Scientific Support Department. Chris Hartley…
GMV has launched its first ‘as-a-service’ data processing framework for Earth observation satellite constellations, developed as part of EOP‑LABS, a project funded by…
Rocket Lab Corporation, a launch services and space systems company, announced today that it has been awarded its largest launch contract to date: a launch contract…
Open Cosmos Atlantic, the Portuguese subsidiary of Open Cosmos, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead a mission consolidation study within the ERS-EO…
The 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket went pretty well —and provided some amazing visuals, too. See the highlights here.
A new study using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40…
Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the…
Five orbital launches are scheduled worldwide for this week. In China, a Chang Zheng 6A… The post Launch Preview: Falcon 9 and Chang Zheng rockets set to launch this week appeared first on…
TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite operators have welcomed the prospect of reaping more than $6 billion for quickly clearing upper C-band spectrum the FCC aims to auction next year, with billions […] The post…
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Indra Group of Spain said its space division, which since January has… The post Indra Group: Space division is on track to reach $455M in revenue this year appeared first on Space…
The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares…
