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USDA probationary staff fired at two research agencies, sources say
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has fired probationary staff at two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies, two sources familiar with the situation s...
Thomson Reuters Feb 14, 2025
Eutelsat's shares tumble as Starlink competition mounts
By Gianluca Lo Nostro and Hugo Lhomedet (Reuters) - Shares of French satellite service provider Eutelsat plunged on Friday after the company flagged lower cashflow from its geostationary equatorial or...
Thomson Reuters Feb 14, 2025
Exclusive-Adani-backed firm among three finalists in India's small satellite launch rocket privatisation
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian conglomerate Adani Group is a finalist, alongside two government-linked groups, to take over private production of India's Small Satellite Launch...
Thomson Reuters Feb 14, 2025
Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CEO of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced in an all-hands call on Thursday company-wide layoffs of "about 10 percent" of its employees, a sweeping readjustmen...
Thomson Reuters Feb 13, 2025
Apptronik raises $350 million to scale production of humanoid robots
(Reuters) - Apptronik said on Thursday it has raised $350 million in a funding round led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with participation from Alphabet's Google, to scale production of AI-powered ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 13, 2025
India raises budget for Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to $2.32 billion
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - India has expanded its Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to include building and operating a national space station, planning two crewed and six uncre...
Thomson Reuters Feb 13, 2025
Acting NASA chief says DOGE reviewing agency spending as hundreds take buyout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA's acting administrator Janet Petro said on Wednesday that Elon Musk's government efficiency panel planned to examine the space agency's spending, and noted hundreds of agenc...
Thomson Reuters Feb 12, 2025
Analysis-Cutting moon rocket would test Musk's power to slash jobs in Republican states
By Joey Roulette and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is being urged to axe an over-budget, multi-billion dollar moon rocket, sources familiar with the discussions said, setti...
Thomson Reuters Feb 12, 2025
Cuts to USAID halt US farm research at universities, sources say
By Leah Douglas, P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek (Reuters) - The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has halted work at a network of farm research lab...
Thomson Reuters Feb 12, 2025
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino boasting reco...
Thomson Reuters Feb 12, 2025




