Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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Solar ghost particles seen flipping carbon atoms in underground detector SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Scientists have recorded solar neutrinos changing carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector in Canada, marking the first observation of this specific interaction between neutr...
China prepares Qingzhou cargo ship for low cost resupply flights SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Qingzhou, or light vessel, China's new-generation cargo spacecraft, has achieved breakthroughs in multiple key technologies and is scheduled to make its maiden flight next year, according...
Triple Long March launches mark record day for Chinese space program SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) has achieved three orbital launches with Long March rockets in a single day, setting a new mark for the country's spaceflight cadence. Th...
ICE-CSIC leads a pioneering study on the feasibility of asteroid mining SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtai...
Foreign satellites ride Kinetica 1 on new CAS Space mission SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 CAS Space has carried out the 11th launch of its Kinetica 1 solid-fuel carrier rocket, orbiting nine satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern...
Lunar dust study links space weathering to changes in Moon ultraviolet brightness SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists working with researchers at UT San Antonio have analyzed Apollo lunar soil samples to determine how space weathering alters t...
NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2025 The center leverages AI along with JPL's unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions....
Uranus and Neptune may be rock rich worlds SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 The Solar System is often divided into four inner rocky planets, two gas giants, and two ice giants thought to be dominated by water and other volatiles, but new work from the Unive...
Star wobble reveals black hole dragging spacetime SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Astronomers have reported the first clear observation of a swirling distortion in spacetime produced by a rapidly spinning black hole, seen through the motion of material left over from...
Thorium plated steel points to smaller nuclear clocks SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Last year a UCLA-led team achieved a long-sought goal in nuclear spectroscopy by making radioactive thorium-229 nuclei absorb and emit photons in a controlled way, a capability scientist...
Overview Energy debuts airborne power beaming milestone for space based solar power SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Overview Energy has revealed an airborne power-beaming demonstration that transmitted energy from a moving aircraft to a ground receiver 5 kilometers below, marking its second major step...
Experts at Hainan symposium call for stronger global space partnership SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 The 2025 International Symposium on the Peaceful Use of Space Technology - Health (IPSPACE 2025) opened Tuesday in Boao, a coastal town in China's Hainan province, with a focus on expandin...
Leading the Odds: Five Bookmakers Transforming Ireland's Modern Betting Landscape SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 London, UK (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Discover how five innovative bookmakers are reshaping Ireland's betting industry through technology, transparency, and player-first design. A news-style deep dive into Ireland's evolving bet...
An Unrelenting Tule Fog NASA · 11 Dec 2025 The right combination of conditions allowed this distinctive low cloud to form in California’s Central Valley for weeks.
Blue Origin’s Cape Campus continues to expand ahead of New Glenn ramp-up NASASpaceflight · 11 Dec 2025 Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Florida’s Exploration Park is undergoing rapid transformation as the company…
GEO satellite refueling a priority for national security, commercial markets, new analysis finds SpaceNews · 11 Dec 2025 The findings come from a report by the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities, or COSMIC
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 11 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-90 mission will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket flying a south-easterly trajectory after leaving from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 3:26 p.m. EST (2026 UTC).
NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions NASA · 11 Dec 2025 The center leverages AI along with JPL’s unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborato...
Chinese Spacewalkers Inspect Damaged Shenzhou-20 Window SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Dec 2025 Two Shenzhou-21 taikonauts conducted a spacewalk yesterday that included inspecting the damaged window on Shenzhou-20 that remains docked to the Tiangong space station. Last month the Shenzhou-20 crew had to
L3Harris satellite-jamming system approved for export to close U.S. allies SpaceNews · 11 Dec 2025 Lt. Gen. Phil Garrant, head of the Space Systems Command, said Five Eyes partners would likely have access to this technology
Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenn’s path to Space Force certification SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 Lt. Gen. Phil Garrant, who leads the Space Systems Command, said Blue Origin selected the four-flight benchmark and the government agreed
After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? Ars Technica · 10 Dec 2025 "Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets."
Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 The contract will focus on signals intelligence for U.S. Air Force platforms.
Multiple space companies join NATO’s DIANA defense accelerator SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector.
25 Years of Space Station Technology Driving Exploration NASA · 10 Dec 2025 NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that...
Delivering the next generation of cloud-native, multi-orbit ground systems SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 As on-orbit capabilities grow more advanced, ground systems are undergoing a transformation of their own. Ground network specialist ST Engineering iDirect, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, is investing in new […]
GLOBE Expands with Landsat Land Cover Comparisons NASA · 10 Dec 2025 The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program has launched a new feature that connects citizen scientists directly to Landsat observations.
After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions Ars Technica · 10 Dec 2025 It is by no means certain that Russia will be able to fix Site 31 soon.
Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 Two defense technology companies from Norway and Germany have joined forces to bolster Europe’s sovereign intelligence and communications capabilities, with plans to start deploying small satellites in about three years.
China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and launching new remote sensing satellites.
Colliding space debris produces radio bursts, raising prospect of ‘debris weather’ alerts SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, as well as satellit...
Odin Space raises $3 million in seed funding SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – British startup Odin Space raised $3 million in a seed round to begin commercializing tiny sensors to map and analyze sub-centimeter orbital debris. With its first sensor launched in 2023 on D-Orbit’s ION...
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Returns to Earth NASA · 10 Dec 2025 The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zu...
How multi-agent AI can strengthen space missions against the unknown SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors, more software-driven behavior, more tightly coupled subsystems and more interactions between spacecraft and orbital infrastructure. As these syst...
Benchmark demonstrates high-throughput ASCENT thruster in hotfire testing at Edwards Air Force Base SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit application of the propulsion technology, the company announced Dec. 10. “Beca...
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay.
Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2025 A space solar power startup has emerged from stealth after demonstrating a key technology for its plans to transmit power from space to the Earth.
Shine bright like a satellite ESA · 10 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
Space shuttle design study maps path to breakthrough inventions SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Researchers examining NASA's space shuttle development argue that the agency's design approach offers a template for creating breakthrough products that combine many interdependent featu...
Canadian radar satellite contract positions MDA Space for RADARSAT replenishment role SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 MDA Space has secured a $44.7 million contract from Public Services and Procurement Canada, acting for the Canadian Space Agency, to procure and deliver critical long lead parts in suppo...

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