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JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsio...
Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments...
HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Ex...
Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space Telescope SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-dur...
Arab Satellite 813 launch deepens UAE China space partnership SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 A Kinetica 1 rocket has placed the Arab Satellite 813 into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, marking a new phase of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China in...
ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the univers...
Speed, risk, and the future of national security space SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss moderates a timely panel discussion at the Spacepower conference on how commercial space capabilities are reshaping national security, civil space, and military decision-ma...
Max Space unveils plans for commercial space station SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.
What Germany got right (and wrong) in its first ever space strategy SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 Germany’s first national space security strategy was unveiled last month to much fanfare. And who’s surprised? It was long overdue, and puts into plain language a simple but vital truth: space is now a theatre of power....
Proba-3 fills the solar observation gap ESA · 17 Dec 2025 It has been a busy year for the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission. The satellite duo has already created more than 50 artificial solar eclipses in orbit since the mission operations began less than a year ago. The...
Ariane 6 launches Galileo navigation satellites SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 An Ariane 6 rocket placed two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system into orbit Dec. 17.
Galileo’s first Ariane 6 launch strengthens European resilience ESA · 17 Dec 2025 On 17 December, two Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This marked the 14th launch for Europe’s Galileo constellation, reinforcing Europe’s satellite navigat...
Galileo L14 launch highlights ESA · 17 Dec 2025 On 17 December, two new Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This marked the 14th launch for Europe’s satellite navigation operational satellite programme, rei...
OQ Technology links commercial IoT chipset to LEO satellite SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 Luxembourg-based OQ Technology said Dec. 17 it has connected a commercial IoT chipset directly to one of its LEO satellites, using internally developed software based on 3GPP mobile standards.
Europe at night from space ESA · 17 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
Galileo L14 liftoff on Ariane 6 ESA · 17 Dec 2025 On 17 December, two new Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This marked the 14th launch for Europe’s satellite navigation operational satellite programme, rei...
A Siberian Snowman in Billings NASA · 17 Dec 2025 Winds, waves, and ice near a remote town on the Chukchi Peninsula have sculpted a series of coastal inshore lagoons that resemble an icon of winter.
ESA Member States Fund €100M Ariane 6 ASTRIS Kick Stage Evolution European Spaceflight · 17 Dec 2025 European Spaceflight has learned from the European Space Agency that a contract awarded to ArianeGroup in 2021 for the development of an Ariane 6 kick stage will be adapted to cover its evolution into an orbital transfer...
Live coverage: SpaceX to fly Starlink mission using Falcon 9 booster flying for a 30th time Spaceflight Now · 17 Dec 2025 The Falcon 9 rocket launching the Starlink 15-13 mission will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is for 7:22 a.m. PST (10:22 a.m. EST / 1522 UTC).
Rocket Lab set to launch Space Force and NASA ‘DiskSat’ experiment SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 The STP-S30 mission will test flat, disk-shaped smallsat design for sustained operations in very low orbit
Digantara raises $50 million to expand from space surveillance to missile defense SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 Digantara Industries, an Indian space situational awareness company, has raised $50 million as it expands into the United States and pursues opportunities in missile defense.
Live coverage: SpaceX preps sunrise Starlink from Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 16 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-99 mission represents SpaceX’s 125th launch to date from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff is scheduled during a window that opens at 7:19 a.m. EST (1219 UTC).
Launch Roundup: Ariane 6, Falcon 9, Atlas V, and Electron launches highlight busy week NASASpaceflight · 16 Dec 2025 Global launch activity is set to surge over the next week, with 13 missions scheduled…
NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has b...
NASA Launches Research Program for Students to Explore Big Ideas NASA · 16 Dec 2025 NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university an...
Through Astronaut Eyes: 25 Years of Life in Orbit NASA · 16 Dec 2025 After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The or...
NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025 NASA · 16 Dec 2025 With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well...
How Small Is Too Small? Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Volunteers participating in the Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists and Satellites (LOCSS) project have been collecting water level data in lakes since 2017. Now, the LOCSS team has used these data to examine the acc...
NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA’s twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon. Launches inv...
Peekaboo! NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal c...
Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major cha...
Statistics and Data Science NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science...
One of NASA’s Key Cameras Orbiting Mars Takes 100,000th Image NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. After nearly 20 years at the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped i...
Maintaining the Gold Standard: The Future of Landsat Calibration and Validation NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The NASA CalVal team spent 2025 improving their calibration techniques, strengthening collaboration, and sharing their work with the remote sensing community. Looking ahead, they’re applying lessons learned to prepare fo...
Microbiology NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and r...
Immunology and Virology NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Does Spaceflight Alter the Human Immune System? Getting sick on Earth is nothing to sneeze at, but for astronauts on deep space exploration missions, the risk for contracting diseases may be elevated due to altered immun...
Exposure Guidelines (SMACs and SWEGs) NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air (SMACs) and drinking water (SWEGs) in collaboration with the National Research Council’s Com...
What’s Next for HLS NASA · 16 Dec 2025 In 2025, the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) program established itself as a cornerstone for global medium-resolution optical Earth observation and became one of NASA’s most downloaded products.
How the Space Force trains Guardians for the future of warfare SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 In this episode of Space Minds, host Sandra Erwin sits down with former NASA astronaut and Space Force leader Brig. Gen. Nick Hague for a wide-ranging conversation on how the U.S. Space Force is shaping its culture, trai...
NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed. Officially named...

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