23+ hour, 8+ min ago   (522+ words) Purpose built around cargo volume, not simply payload weight, WindRunner enables direct delivery of outsized space systems to launch sites, manufacturing facilities, and austere or distributed locations without disassembly....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (475+ words) The sensors operate at a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. Researchers in the US have accurately measured X-ray emissions from a total of three radioactive elements, including uranium, plutonium and neptunium, with ultrasensitive quantum sensors. The sensors were…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (705+ words) Engines, parachutes and wings guide vehicles through their final descent. Most rocket launches are watched on the way up. Engines ignite, the vehicle climbs through the atmosphere, and its stages separate as it heads toward space. But for reusable rockets…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (309+ words) German startup Isar Aerospace has become the first commercial company to put satellites into orbit from European soil, launching its Spectrum rocket from Andoya in Arctic Norway on 5 September 2026. The 28-metre, propane-fuelled vehicle reached orbit on only its second ever…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (485+ words) The US Space Force has tapped Leonardo DRS to advance a new space sensor designed to detect, identify, track, and target fast-moving threats. The U.S. Space Force has selected Leonardo DRS to advance a new space-based sensing technology designed to detect,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (280+ words) Chinese private launch firm Galactic Energy flew its medium-lift PALLAS-1 rocket for the first time on 1 September 2026, lifting off at 10am Beijing time from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone at Jiuquan and reaching its designated orbit. China just flew…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (502+ words) Hunt for dark matter narrows, US’ galactic simulations reach one step closer to decode mystery Interesting Engineering A new study from the University of Washington is offering astronomers a more cautious — but potentially more powerful — way to search…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (122+ words) This startup’s space mirrors could extend solar power into the night. Astronomers have concerns Interesting Engineering “Satellites whose entire purpose is to reflect as much sunlight as possible are fundamentally incompatible with astronomy research,” University of Regina astronomer Samantha Lawler…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (250+ words) Hangzhou startup CoolFly launched the Urban on 13 August 2026, a standing eVTOL platform flown by shifting your body weight instead of working a control stick. A Chinese startup has built a flying skateboard, and it says most people can learn to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (420+ words) Redwire is investing in phased array antennas to boost data links for future U.S. military satellite networks. Redwire is expanding its investment in phased array antennas as demand grows for faster military communications from space. The aerospace and defense technology company…...