Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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NASA ORBIT Challenge 2026 NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge is a multi-phase, student-focused challenge designed to inspire and empower the next generation of innovators,...
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Reveals ‘First Light’ Images NASA · 16 Dec 2025 NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, revealing rare views of Earth and the Moon in ultraviolet light. Taken on Nov. 17 — still months before the mission’s science phase begins...
NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth NASA · 16 Dec 2025 All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements in space. With these “first light” observations, the spacecra...
NASA, Partners Share First Data From New US-European Sea Satellite NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Launched in November, Sentinel-6B will track ocean height with ultraprecision to advance marine forecasting, national security, and more. Sentinel-6B, a joint mission by NASA and its U.S. and European partners to survey...
Trump’s national security strategy ignores space SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 The Trump administration’s new national security strategy has rightly drawn criticism for presuming to tell our European allies how to arrange their domestic affairs. Equally as baffling is its near silence on a genuine...
First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy ESA · 16 Dec 2025 Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue t...
Vantor partners with Niantic Spatial on GPS-free navigation for defense market SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 Firms aim to link air and ground platforms using visual positioning technology
EraDrive raises $5.3 million for software-hardware kits to enhance satellite autonomy SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford University spinoff developing software and hardware for satellite autonomy, raised $5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round, the startup announced Dec. 16. “EraDrive is very much...
SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit.
China launches experimental cargo spacecraft, opaque tech demo mission and remote sensing satellite SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 China conducted a pair of launches in recent days, sending a commercial cargo spacecraft and tech demo into orbit, followed by a remote sensing satellite.
Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Gemini North has obtained new color images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar object emerged from behind the Sun on its outbound trajectory from the Solar System. Using the Gemini Multi...
Southern Launch to host INNOSPACE missions from South Australian spaceports SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Southern Launch has signed a contract with South Korean launch service provider INNOSPACE to conduct space missions from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex and the Koonibba Test R...
Rocket Lab completes first dedicated JAXA mission with Electron launch SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Rocket Lab Corporation has carried out its first dedicated launch for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), advancing the role of the Electron small launch vehicle in Japan'...
Musk signals plan to launch IPO for SpaceX SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 New York (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 Elon Musk has signaled plans to soon seek a public stock listing of SpaceX, confirming a report that links the strategic shift to a near-term need for more capital. Musk, who is also the CEO o...
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid B...
GoMars model simulates Martian dust storms to improve mission safety SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Researchers in China have used a Mars general circulation model to simulate 50 years of Martian dust activity, aiming to improve forecasts of global dust storms that can disrupt exploratio...
Autonomous DARPA project to expand satellite surveillance network by BAE Systems SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' FAST Labs research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract under the...
MAVEN telemetry shows changes to spacecraft orbit and rotation SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch.
SpaceX advances Starbase upgrades at the launch site NASASpaceflight · 16 Dec 2025 SpaceX continues rapid infrastructure improvements at its Starbase facility in South Texas, with demolition work…
Callisto Ground Support Robot Ready for Shipment European Spaceflight · 16 Dec 2025 French engineering group Technip Energies (T.EN) is in the process of completing Factory Acceptance Tests for a robot that will be used to connect and disconnect umbilicals from the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator...
A Subtle Return of La Niña NASA · 16 Dec 2025 A weak La Niña emerged in the equatorial Pacific in late 2025, and scientists are watching how it may help shape weather and climate in the months ahead.
Rocket Lab to launch second of three planned Electron rockets this week Spaceflight Now · 15 Dec 2025 The ‘Bridging the Swarm’ mission comes two days after the company launched its ‘RAISE and Shine’ flight for JAXA. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:55 p.m. NZDT / 0055 UTC on Dec. 16 (7:45 p.m. EST on Dec. 15).
Space Force uses AI challenge to push everyday use of artificial intelligence SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 Senior leaders emphasize internal expertise and hands-on experimentation
NextSTEP-3 B: Moon to Mars Architecture Studies NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 NAICS Codes: NASA seeks industry-led architecture concept development, concept refinement studies, and risk-reduction activities that address Moon to Mars Architecture gaps through the Next Space...
Beyond the ground station: Why space data centers require a distributed RAID SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 Low Earth orbit is undergoing the fastest expansion in its history. However, the nature of the payload is changing. We are moving past simple “bent-pipe” communication relays — where a satellite simply receives a signal...
NASA to test SpaceX’s Starshield in pilot program SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 NASA plans to test SpaceX’s Starshield satellite network, designed primarily for national security customers, to support operations of the agency’s Deep Space Network.
Bassac River, Southern Vietnam NASA · 15 Dec 2025 A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in Cù Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into t...
GomSpace to provide RF subsystem for Apolink LEO relay demonstrator SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 Palo Alto startup Apolink has picked GomSpace to build the radio frequency subsystem for its first relay cubesat, aiming to show how signals can be received from other LEO spacecraft and forwarded to the ground.
Live coverage: ULA Atlas 5 launch will put Amazon’s 180th broadband satellite in low Earth orbit Spaceflight Now · 15 Dec 2025 This will be the sixth and final launch of the year for United Launch Alliance. Teams are targeting liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:49 a.m. EST (0849 UTC).
Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China Ars Technica · 15 Dec 2025 Chinese companies are no longer hiding their intent to clone SpaceX. They're advertising it.
XRISM sees comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light ESA · 15 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
ESA highlights 2025 ESA · 15 Dec 2025 2025 was a landmark year for Europe in space. From celebrating 50 years of ESA to new missions, scientific breakthroughs, the year reaffirmed Europe’s leadership in science, exploration, climate action and innovation.
NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that there are as many as two trillion galaxies in the observa...
Why the Space Force says 2025 changes everything SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss sits down with Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, one of the U.S. Space Force’s most influential acquisition leaders and recipient of the SpaceNews Icon Award for Military Space Achi...
Starfish Space announce Autonomous Rendezvous and Proximity mission success with Impulse Space NASASpaceflight · 15 Dec 2025 Starfish Space and Impulse Space have revealed the successful execution of the “Remora” mission, marking…
Starfish Space and Impulse Space demonstrate autonomous spacecraft proximity operations SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 Two space companies have collaborated to demonstrate automated close approaches between spacecraft using a single camera as the primary sensor.
Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems ESA · 15 Dec 2025 Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.
20 years in Antarctica ESA · 15 Dec 2025 For two decades, ESA has sent a medical doctor to brave the cold and more for 13 months at Concordia station in Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth. This unique environment – isolated, confined and extreme...
MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – University of California spinoff MetaSeismic wasn’t focused on space applications when it began using an artificial intelligence platform to create materials to mitigate vibration and shock. But […]
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand control SpaceDaily · 15 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed...

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