Briefing: Voyager opens defense and space tech hub in Long Beach
Strategic angle: New facility to support electronics and software development for missile defense and space programs.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
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Briefing: Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
Strategic angle: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of NGC 5134, revealing stars through its dusty arms.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Mantis Space emerges from stealth with $10 million for solar-power constellation
Strategic angle: New Mexico startup Mantis Space reveals plans for a solar power satellite constellation, backed by $10 million in seed funding.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe
Strategic angle: Clouds of dust lofted from the Sahara Desert brought hazy skies and muddy rain to Western Europe.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Teen Discovers 1.5 Million Unidentified Space Objects Based On NASA Data
Strategic angle: Matteo Paz's groundbreaking discovery earns him a $250,000 prize in the Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Benjamin Netanyahu, a prime minister without checks and balances
Strategic angle: The strikes in Iran have further reduced the political space for opposition in Israel, even as concerns mount over a possible ground offensive in Lebanon.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Enpulsion raises $26 million
Strategic angle: Austrian company secures funding to boost satellite propulsion production and explore acquisitions.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula
Strategic angle: A stunning collaboration between ESA’s Euclid and NASA’s Hubble reveals the intricate beauty of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Curiosity Blog, Sols 4825-4831: Exploring the Borderlands
Strategic angle: Curiosity is in the last stage of its exploration of the spiderweb-like boxwork unit.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: A Most Unusual Lake
Strategic angle: Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions
Strategic angle: Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Project
Strategic angle: NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies for various aircraft speed regimes.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts
Strategic angle: Lunar dust can be a pain—but it's also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the moon.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Starlab Space Fully Books Commercial Payload Space on Planned Space Station
Strategic angle: The Starlab commercial space station has secured all available payload space as it prepares for the next phase of a NASA program.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Insights into Spallation Mechanisms of Thermal Protection System Materials
Strategic angle: A study investigates the internal pressure build-up mechanisms in thermal protection system materials using mass spectrometry and HyMETS testing.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Impulse Space Expands Colorado Presence
Strategic angle: Space mobility company Impulse Space has opened a Colorado facility to support development of its spacecraft.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Renault's R-Space Lab Has A Built-In Alcohol Detector
Strategic angle: The concept previews Renault models coming from 2030.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Shades of a Lunar Eclipse
Strategic angle: A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Evaluating landing sites for China's manned moon mission
Strategic angle: Research identifies potential landing sites in the Rimae Bode region of the moon for China's first crewed mission.
Editorial Staff Mar 9
Briefing: Packers release OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M
Strategic angle: The Green Bay Packers are moving on from offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins, releasing the left guard/center to free up more than $19.5 million in cap space.
Editorial Staff Mar 9