Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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Hubble Glimpses Galactic Gas Making a Getaway NASA · 19 Dec 2025 A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden), NGC 4388 is a resident of the Virgo galaxy cluster. This e...
Trump shifts priority to Moon mission, not Mars SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that he wants to send astronauts back to the Moon as soon as possible, putting eventual Mars missions on the back burner. In an...
BlackSky accelerates Gen-3 satellite into full commercial service in three weeks SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has placed its third Gen-3 imaging satellite into commercial service just three weeks after launch, marking a major reduction in commissioning time...
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2025 Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth's sur...
NASA backs CINEMA smallsat fleet to probe Earth magnetotail SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA has selected Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to begin developing a mission that will shed more light on the growing impacts...
LizzieSat 3 completes bus commissioning for multi mission AI operations SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Sidus Space has completed bus-level commissioning of its LizzieSat-3 spacecraft, confirming that the satellite's core systems are operational in orbit and ready to support customer mi...
Sentinel 6B begins sea level mapping campaign SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Sentinel-6B has begun returning its first ocean measurements, providing initial maps of sea level across a wide area of the U.S. East Coast and the Atlantic Ocean after its November launc...
"Robot, make me a chair" robot-make-me-a-chair-in-six-prompts SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many too...
Laser experiment proposed to probe quantum nature of gravity SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf have outlined an experiment in which light exchanges discrete packets of energy with gravitational waves, potentially revealing the l...
Betelgeuse and the Crab Nebula: Stellar Death and Rebirth NASA · 19 Dec 2025 What happens when a star dies? In 2019, Betelgeuse dimmed in brightness, sparking speculation that it may soon explode as a supernova. While it likely won’t explode quite yet, we can preview its fate by observing the nea...
Introducing ARIEL, a new 250 N thruster ESA · 19 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
Dwarf stars in a glittering sky ESA · 19 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
Webb: Dwarf stars in a glittering sky ESA · 19 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
Earth from Space: Manicouagan crater ESA · 19 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
ICEYE and Rheinmetall Win €1.7 Billion German Armed Forces Contract European Spaceflight · 19 Dec 2025 The German Armed Forces have awarded a €1.7 billion contract to Rheinmetall and ICEYE for the delivery of space-based reconnaissance data through exclusive access to a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellati...
Space Station Research Supports New FDA-Approved Cancer Therapy NASA · 19 Dec 2025 NASA opens the International Space Station for scientists and researchers, inviting them to use the benefits of microgravity for private industry research, technology demonstrations, and more. Today, half of the crew’s t...
Trump Issues Executive Order to Ensure U.S. Space Superiority SpacePolicyOnline.com · 19 Dec 2025 President Trump issued a new Executive Order today aimed at ensuring U.S. space superiority. The order covers all three sectors — civil, national security, and commercial — and comes on
The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Fusion is the cosmic process that powers stars, shapes galaxies, and enables the chemical diversity needed for life. From the earliest stars to modern planetary systems, fusion conver...
How to pick the right web testing framework for your project SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 The selection of a web testing framework may at times not be very easy. In fact, with so many tools that claim to speed up your testing process, it often comes down to which tool best fi...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4743-4749: Polygons in the Hollow NASA · 19 Dec 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Planning Date: Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 The weekend drive starting from the “Nevado Sajama” drill site brought Curiosity back into the “Mo...
Trump signs sweeping executive order to assert U.S. dominance in space SpaceNews · 18 Dec 2025 The White House issued a sweeping executive order on space policy Dec. 18 covering topics from NASA’s exploration plans to space security.
What problem is charging for Space Situational Awareness supposed to solve? SpaceNews · 18 Dec 2025 A recently issued Executive Order revises how the government implements Space Policy Directive-3, removing the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services, including conjunction warning...
Trump commits to Moon landing by 2028, followed by a lunar outpost two years later Ars Technica · 18 Dec 2025 Also, the Trump administration wants to put some nuclear power reactors there, too.
Moon Mascot: NASA Artemis II ZGI Design Challenge NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Whose Moon Mascot design will join the Artemis II astronauts on their historic voyage around the Moon in early 2026? Between March 7 and Jun. 16, 2025, NASA worked with crowdsourcing company Freelancer to seek design ide...
Germany awards $1.9 billion SAR satellite deal to Rheinmetall-Iceye venture SpaceNews · 18 Dec 2025 New constellation would provide security for NATO’s eastern flank, German brigade in Lithuania
NASA Announces 2025 International Space Apps Challenge Global Winners NASA · 18 Dec 2025 NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM sk...
Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA Spaceflight Now · 18 Dec 2025 The STP-S30 mission was moved up five months on the launch manifest for Rocket Lab. This was the 20th launch of an Electron rocket in 2025.
NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Hall...
NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets smashing together and pelting the Earth, Moon, and the othe...
NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings NASA · 18 Dec 2025 The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft...
Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star ESA · 18 Dec 2025 In a historical milestone, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, scientists saw the impact o...
NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cos...
NASA Welcomes 15th Administrator Jared Isaacman NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Jared Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as NASA’s 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The oath was taken during a ceremony held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. As NASA administr...
HawkEye 360 expands defense footprint with acquisition of Innovative Signal Analysis SpaceNews · 18 Dec 2025 Deal backed by $150 million Series E equity and debt round
Atlas V Leo 4 Turns the Page Space Scout · 18 Dec 2025 From Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V leapt into
A Look Back at NASA Stennis in 2025 NASA · 18 Dec 2025 In 2025, NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, marked a year of progress by supporting NASA’s Artemis campaign, celebrating historic milestones, and continuing its role as a trusted propulsion test...
342nd Council: Media information session ESA · 18 Dec 2025 Watch the replay of the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on key decisions taken at the ESA Council meeting, held at ESA...
2025 Science Activation Opportunity NASA · 18 Dec 2025 NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc...
Payroll NASA · 18 Dec 2025 The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Payroll Office (NPO) reviews, validates, and delivers time and attendance data to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Interior Business Center (IBC) for NASA Centers. NPO acts as l...
2025 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley NASA · 18 Dec 2025 NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering, science, and innovation this past year. Join us as we take a look back at some of the highlights...

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