Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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LEO internet satellites bolster navigation where GPS is weak SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Columbus, OH (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 As intentional and unintentional interference with GPS grows worldwide, researchers have shown that radio signals from commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellations such as Star...
MDA Space plans C250 million senior unsecured note issue maturing 2030 SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 MDA Space Ltd. has arranged a private placement of C$250 million in 7.00 percent senior unsecured notes due 2030 under an underwriting agreement. The company expects the offering to clos...
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit th...
SLI and AscendArc agree on 200 million GEO satellite leasing framework SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 Aerospace asset finance firm SLI has signed heads of agreement to acquire two of AscendArc's next-generation Ka-band geostationary satellites, in a transaction valued at more than $200 m...
Funding boost unlocks future space science programme ESA · 10 Dec 2025 In its 50th anniversary year, European Space Agency (ESA) Member States have recommitted to space science. A historic budget increase for the Science Programme of 3.5% per year through to 2028, in addition to inflation,...
ESA Publishes Call for Crew Launch Abort System European Spaceflight · 10 Dec 2025 The European Space Agency has published a call for tenders to develop a launch abort system for a future crewed launch capability. The system would be used in the event of an emergency, either on the launch pad or during...
Human Exploration of Mars Gets a Science Strategy SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 Dec 2025 A new report from a National Academies committee today lays out a science strategy for human exploration of the surface of Mars. Sponsored by NASA, the committee was asked to
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025 Spaceflight Now · 10 Dec 2025 The Starlink 15-11 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to the low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 3:40 a.m. PST (6:40 a.m. EST / 11...
NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel NASA · 9 Dec 2025 NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas. The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Ce...
What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests NASA · 9 Dec 2025 In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-its-kind data imagery of t...
Lunar Outpost’s MAPP Rovers: From Commercial Exploration to Artemis Integration NASASpaceflight · 9 Dec 2025 Colorado-based Lunar Outpost scales commercial rover platforms for NASA’s crewed lunar missions. Founded in 2017…
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics) NASA · 9 Dec 2025 Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot ga...
Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 Two Shenzhou-21 astronauts embarked on the mission’s first spacewalk late Monday, inspecting and photographing a damaged spacecraft window which triggered an earlier emergency launch.
Sprites Over Château de Beynac NASA · 9 Dec 2025 A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in...
Canada picks Telesat and MDA to study Arctic military communications constellation SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 Canada has contracted satellite operator Telesat and manufacturer MDA Space to explore options for a multibillion-dollar military communications network to support the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic.
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals NASA · 9 Dec 2025 Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the s...
SCHOTT launches high-performance cover glass for next-generation space solar cells SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 – SCHOTT® Solar Glass exos provides enhanced radiation resistance and optical performance for simple silicon cells up to III-V multijunction satellite solar cells.– Jointly developed with Heilbronn-based AZUR SPACE Solar...
In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars Ars Technica · 9 Dec 2025 "Everyone is inspired by this because it's becoming real."
Webb identifies earliest supernova to date ESA · 9 Dec 2025 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the source of a super-bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst, generated by an exploding massive star when the Universe was only 730 million years old. F...
How Louisiana Native Turned Childhood Wonder into NASA Stennis Career NASA · 9 Dec 2025 Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa, Louisiana, native joined her dad for Father/Da...
TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 Startup leans on C-band architecture to separate from L-band competitors
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office Spaceflight Now · 9 Dec 2025 The mission, dubbed NROL-77, is likely to be the final time SpaceX uses Landing Zone 2 to recover a first stage Falcon booster. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 2:16 p.m. EST (19...
LeoLabs lands interagency contract to feed TraCSS and track adversarial spacecraft SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 LeoLabs has won an interagency contract to provide space-surveillance data for the U.S. government, supporting adversarial spacecraft monitoring and the TraCSS orbital traffic coordination platform due to enter full serv...
America must stop treating China’s lunar plans as a footrace SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 It has become conventional wisdom that China’s rise is driven by a coordinated strategy across three fronts here on Earth: dominating critical industries, controlling critical resources and occupying strategically import...
Soyuz safely lands in Kazakhstan Spaceflight Now · 9 Dec 2025 A NASA astronaut and two cosmonaut crewmates strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship Monday evening, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to an on-target landing on the frigid steppe of Kazakhstan early...
Finland’s ICEYE Closes €150 Million Series E Funding Round European Spaceflight · 9 Dec 2025 Finnish Earth observation data provider and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite manufacturer ICEYE has closed a new funding round, securing €150 million. Founded in 2014, ICEYE operates the world’s largest SAR satel...
Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 The company is adapting commercial thermal-sensing tech for military applications
Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital data center race SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has thrown its hat into the emerging market for orbital data centers, joining SpaceX, Amazon and others exploring ways to move energy-hungry artificial intelligence compute off...
The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed t...
NASA to test commercial robotic arm in orbit to advance in space construction SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission will suppor...
Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can ri...
Sea based rocket net recovery platform enters service for Chinese reusable launchers SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 China has taken delivery of its first sea based platform designed to recover rockets using a net system, adding a key element to national plans for reusable launch vehicles. The vessel, na...
Lodestar Space wins SECP support to advance AI satellite awareness system SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Lodestar Space has secured funding through the UK Space Agency's Space Ecosystem Commercialisation Programme, delivered by Space South Central, to accelerate work on its on-orbit sensing sys...
KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino region SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Neutrinos are among the most abundant matter particles in the Universe, yet they interact so weakly that they are difficult to detect and study. The Standard Model includes three neutri...
Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems have merged to form Applied Aerospace and Defense, a single supplier focused on precision hardware and systems for aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites,...
China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 China launched four missions in four days, accelerating its record-setting launch cadence while expanding its Guowang LEO megaconstellation and deploying new Yaogan reconnaissance assets.
Galileo pre-launch media briefing ESA · 9 Dec 2025 Watch the replay of the media briefing held ahead of the 14th operational launch of the Galileo programme. The briefing covers the mission details for the launch of two Galileo satellites, which are set to lift off on 17...
Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds ESA · 9 Dec 2025 Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out int...
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return from Space Station NASA · 9 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, wrapping up an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station to benefit life...
Soyuz MS-27 Back on Terra Firma SpacePolicyOnline.com · 9 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and his two Russian colleagues, Sergey Ryzhikov and Aleksey Zubritsky, have safely returned to Earth after eight months on the International Space Station. Their replacements arrived

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