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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026
A new 10-year project agreement will advance research on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator, an experimental fusion energy system, paving the way for continued collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Germany. The collaboration between DOE and IPP is also the f...

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026
For decades, ion transport in solids has been described as a classical barrier-climbing process, in which an ion must acquire sufficient activation energy to surmount an energy barrier before it can migrate. For hydrogen - the lightest element in the periodic table - that classical picture can break down entirely. Researchers from the Inst...

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026
A team of researchers from Fuzhou University, East China Normal University, Anhui Normal University, and Yunnan Normal University has developed a deep-learning framework to reconstruct a global, high-resolution nighttime light dataset spanning 1992 to 2024. The new product improves temporal continuity, reduces saturation-related bias, and ca...

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2026
Ceramic tiles and control flaps from Europe's Space Rider reentry module have successfully completed high-temperature testing in a plasma wind tunnel, clearing a major qualification hurdle for the reusable spacecraft's thermal protection and guidance systems. The tests were conducted at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA) facil...

Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026
Lockheed Martin has completed the core mate production phase for GPS IIIF Space Vehicle 11 (SV11), the manufacturing milestone that formally marks a satellite's structural birth. SV11 is the first GPS IIIF spacecraft scheduled to launch and the third in the block to reach that stage, following SV13 and SV14, which completed core mate last...