HELSINKI — Landspace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket Tuesday following the second launch of the rocket from the Gobi Desert. The second Zhuque-3 rocket lifted off at 7:35 p.m. Eastern (2335 UTC) Aug. 18 from Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone within the national Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The first and
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Semiconducting nanorods help laser-powered drones keep cool – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has signed an agreement with Planet to access that company’s satellites. The two companies announced a partnership Aug. 17 in which HEO will be able to use Planet’s SkySat high-resolution satellites for what is known as non-Earth imaging,
Shortcut for simulating logical magic states could accelerate the design of fault-tolerant quantum computers – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are increasingly emphasizing to investors and customers that they have lined up launch capacity, even if it is uncertain when those vehicles will be available. In second-quarter earnings calls over the last week, several companies noted they had secured launches, in some cases two years into
New image captures glowing shock waves in the Helix Nebula – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through a commercial services program, including an orbiter that would replace the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. In earnings calls this week, executives with Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines, the two companies that have landed spacecraft on the moon through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services,
Seismic waves reflected from Earth’s core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has completed the deployment of two space-surveillance sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites, expanding its ability to monitor objects in geosynchronous orbit through a bilateral program that uses allied spacecraft and launch systems to field U.S. military payloads. Japan’s H3 rocket launched the second sensor Aug. 10 aboard Quasi-Zenith Satellite
Quiz of the week: what are engineers using to control the growth of artificial blood vessels? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded $60 million to five companies to demonstrate how satellites from multiple vendors can connect to its Space Data Network, a military communications architecture whose core backbone is being supplied by SpaceX. Amazon LEO for Government, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space Systems each received $12
Word flower puzzle no. 7 – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months. In the company’s second-quarter earnings call Aug. 12, Virgin Galactic executives said they now expect commercial flights of their first Spaceship suborbital vehicle to begin in February 2027. In the
Knowing through uncertainty: probability and the evolution of our cosmos – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace says it is seeing strong interest in its launch vehicles and is ramping up production, but those efforts have yet to translate into an increased launch rate. Firefly executives said in an Aug. 11 earnings call that production of its Alpha launch vehicle is at an “all-time high” as development continues
Transit-based exoplanet survey finds its first microlensing exoplanet – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rocket Lab said it has developed a containerized launch system for its Electron and HASTE rockets, an effort to make it easier to operate the vehicles from locations beyond the company’s permanent launch sites and give military customers more options for orbital and hypersonic test missions. The system, called GHOST, short for
Quantum principle allows heat to flow from cold to hot – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here
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