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- Unexpected Trajectory: Erin Sholl’s Path to Human Spaceflight Safety NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Career paths are rarely a straight line and often include some unexpected curves. That is certainly true for Erin Sholl, deputy chief of the Space Transportation Systems Division within the Safety and Mission Assurance D...
- Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks ESA · 15 Dec 2025 Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes...
- Kongsberg and Helsing to Develop Large Defence Satellite Constellation European Spaceflight · 15 Dec 2025 European defence technology companies Helsing and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace have announced a new German-Norwegian partnership to build a large constellation of small satellites for space-based intelligence, surveilla...
- New Timing for Stubble Burning in India NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Scientists say the seasonal crop fires are burning later in the day than in previous years.
- Roman telescope construction complete, moving into final testing ahead of 2027 launch NASASpaceflight · 14 Dec 2025 At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space…
- What’s Happening in Space Policy December 14-31, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Dec 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the rest of 2025, December 14-31, and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 14 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-99 mission will be SpaceX’s 125th orbital launch from Launch Complex 39A to date. Liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled during a launch window that opens at 8:11 a.m. EST (1311 UTC) on Dec....
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 14 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-82 represents SpaceX’s 580th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket to date. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 9:47 p.m. EST (0247 UTC).
- Rocket Lab launches JAXA tech demo satellite SpaceNews · 14 Dec 2025 A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for JAXA Dec. 13 as the company reshuffles its launch manifest.
- Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language Models SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on de...
- Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA engineers are continuing efforts to restore contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter after the spacecraft fell silent during a routine pass behind...
- Sun boundary map tracks shifting Alfven surface over solar cycle SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic contr...
- Mission Space to fly second space weather payload with Rogue Space SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during...
- Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky Way SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of obser...
- Micro X ray method reads ancient meteorite impact scars SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Researchers from China, Canada, and Japan have established a quantitative method to read the impact histories recorded in enstatite chondrites using micro X ray diffraction measurements. E...
- Ancient Martian brines left bromine rich fingerprints in jarosite minerals SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Jarosite, a sulfate mineral widely detected on Mars, records interaction between acidic, oxidizing waters and the planet's surface rocks, but the halogen chemistry of those fluids has been...
- Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged p...
- Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that h...
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind 'U-Turn' SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic...
- China launches carrier rocket to deploy experimental cargo ship and satellite SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 China launched a Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket on Saturday morning to deploy a privately developed experimental cargo ship and a satellite into space. The rocket blasted off at 9:08 am at the...
- K2 Space raises 250m to scale Mega class high power satellites SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Torrance, CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 K2 Space has closed a 250 million dollar Series C funding round that values the company at 3 billion dollars as it prepares to field a new generation of large high power satellites designe...
- New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show ho...
- Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean SpaceDaily · 14 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope...
- SpaceX executive confirms interest in an IPO SpaceNews · 13 Dec 2025 SpaceX’s chief financial officer has confirmed the company is considering an initial public offering as soon as next year to raise money for projects such as orbital data centers.
- Live coverage: SpaceX aims for 550th booster landing amid Saturday night flight Spaceflight Now · 13 Dec 2025 The Starlink 15-12 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to SpaceX’s megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is set for Dec. 13, during a window that o...
- Blue Origin halfway through 4-flight certification to allow launch of national security missions Spaceflight Now · 13 Dec 2025 The launch company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos launched two successful missions in 2025, including landing its first booster on its landing barge.
- SpaceX Roberts Road a focal point for East Coast Starship preparations NASASpaceflight · 13 Dec 2025 SpaceX’s Roberts Road facility, the company’s primary hub for Starship operations on Florida’s Space Coast,…
- NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission NASA · 12 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the news c...
- Intuitive Machines and Telespazio to collaborate on lunar satellite networks SpaceNews · 12 Dec 2025 Intuitive Machines will work with Telespazio on their planned lunar satellite networks to ensure interoperability and improve performance.
- NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame NASA · 12 Dec 2025 Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter cen...
- Study: Current, future megaconstellations risk space-based astronomy Spaceflight Now · 12 Dec 2025 Researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center sound alarm about current and projected impacts to observatories, like the Hubble Space Telescope and others.
- China plans 2026 debut of new rocket for crewed lunar and LEO missions SpaceNews · 12 Dec 2025 China is building towards a debut Long March 10 rocket launch in what will be a major test for the country’s crewed lunar landing plans.
- A Rare Gourd NASA · 12 Dec 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from...
- Space Force Association unveils virtual ‘National Spacepower Center’ for education and wargaming SpaceNews · 12 Dec 2025 The initiative aims to educate policy makers on space as a warfighting domain
- NASA Announces Plan to Map Milky Way With Roman Space Telescope NASA · 12 Dec 2025 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years,...
- Week in images: 08-12 December 2025 ESA · 12 Dec 2025 Week in images: 08-12 December 2025
- XMM-Newton sees comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light ESA · 12 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Pablo Álvarez Fernández | Spacesuits, Survival & Spacewalk Dreams | ESA Explores #18 ESA · 12 Dec 2025 Step inside astronaut training with ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández as he shares his training journey from Cologne in Germany to Houston in the US. Discover what it’s like to wear a 145 kg spacesuit underwater, tra...
- The European space industry’s big merger: lessons for emerging space nations SpaceNews · 12 Dec 2025 The Oct. 23 announcement that Airbus, Thales and Leonardo will merge their satellite operations was a historic development for the European space industry. The plan aims to establish a new combined entity by 2027. Histor...
- NASA advances heliophysics mission into next phase SpaceNews · 12 Dec 2025 NASA has selected a heliophysics mission to move into the next phase of development amid broader concerns about the state of the field.