Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 3,000th Starlink satellite in 2025 on record-setting 32nd flight of Falcon 9 booster Spaceflight Now · 7 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-92 mission also represents the planned launch of the 575th Falcon 9 rocket to date. SpaceX scheduled liftoff for 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 UTC).
Guetlein defends Golden Dome secrecy, says industry is ‘well informed’ despite criticism SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2025 Guetlein said his office has held extensive private engagements with industry.
China hearing focuses on U.S. policy shortfalls SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2025 A House hearing on the rise of China’s space program turned into a broader critique of U.S. space policy, including NASA’s current approach to returning astronauts to the moon.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 7 Dec 2025 The Starlink 11-15 mission will add another 28 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:58 a.m. PST (12:58...
NASA prepares new lunar dust and seismic studies for Artemis IV SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA has selected two science instruments for astronauts to deploy on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission to the Moon's south polar region, with the goal of improving understa...
Stereo solar campaign links Inouye and Solar Orbiter data on tiny 'campfires' SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 The Sun is not just a glowing ball in the sky. From large magnetic loops hundreds of times larger than Earth, to tiny features that blink in and out of existence, our home star is far mo...
Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 On 2 December 1995 the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space - on what was supposed to be a two-year mission. From its outpost 1.5 million km away from Ear...
New mass measurements refine X ray burst reaction flow SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has directly measured the masses of the short lived nuclei phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27, providing data needed t...
Gravitational wave signals reveal dark matter around black holes SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A research team at the University of Amsterdam has developed a new general-relativistic model that shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal dark matter and c...
NASA prepares long duration Antarctic balloon campaign to probe neutrinos and dark matter SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is returning to Antarctica for a new long-duration campaign featuring two zero-pressure balloon launches from a site near the U.S. National Science Foun...
ISS to change commanders before Soyuz crew leaves orbit SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Expedition 73 will swap commanders this weekend before three crew members return to Earth on Monday. Expedition 74 will begin once the home bound trio undocks from the Rassvet module ins...
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into space SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Davis CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the...
Astronomers tighten expansion rate gap in universe measurements SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A team of astronomers using several ground and space-based observatories, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has produced one of the most precise independent measurements...
Subaru OASIS survey uncovers massive planet and brown dwarf SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have identified a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars, marking the first discoveries from the Observing Accelerators wi...
Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Lausanne Switzerland (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications. Although ma...
SpaceX gets approval to build Starship launch complex at Cape Canaveral SpaceNews · 6 Dec 2025 he Department of the Air Force has approved plans to convert a former Delta 4 launch site at Cape Canaveral into a complex for SpaceX’s Starship.
Sugars Essential to Life Discovered on Bennu Space Scout · 6 Dec 2025 On December 2nd, 2025, a team led by researchers at Tohoku University in Japan announced the identification of Ribose, Glucose,
Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL NASA · 6 Dec 2025 Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Teenagers wielding power tools and plywood demonstrated their engineering prowess at the...
Castelion raises $350 million to scale hypersonic missile production SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 The company founded by SpaceX veterans is opening a solid rocket motor manufacturing campus in New Mexico
SpaceX gets Environmental Approval for Starship at SLC-37 NASASpaceflight · 5 Dec 2025 After waiting the requisite time for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), SpaceX now has environmental…
NASA Wins Second Emmy Award for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Broadcast NASA · 5 Dec 2025 NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Telev...
Testing Drones for Mars in the Mojave Desert NASA · 5 Dec 2025 Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop na...
International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations Spaceflight Now · 5 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will take command of the orbiting outpost as Expedition 74 begins with the undocking of Soyuz MS-27 on Monday, Dec. 8. The International Space Station is set to be de-orbited around 2030 or soo...
Week in images: 01-05 December 2025 ESA · 5 Dec 2025 Week in images: 01-05 December 2025
UK’s ESA Funding Cuts Reflect Tightened Priorities Amid Fiscal Uncertainty European Spaceflight · 5 Dec 2025 During the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen last week, the United Kingdom pledged €172 million less for the coming three years than it did for the previous three. The reduction in its c...
Northrop Grumman continues solid rocket motor development and test program SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket motor Dec. 4 as part of an internal program to advance solid rocket propulsion technologies.
Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars NASA · 5 Dec 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba (the Dove), the bright glow of the...
Orbex trails other European Launcher Challenge companies as U.K. delays funding decision SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 Orbex received far less funding than the other four ESA European Launcher Challenge companies after the U.K. deferred a decision on funding allocations.
China faces temporary emergency launch gap after space station lifeboat crisis SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.
Mobile networks want to use the satellite airwaves we need to track climate change SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 At next year’s World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-25), governments will face a choice that goes to the heart of how we monitor our warming planet. Some regulators are wondering whether to […]
Surprisingly, this space economy isn’t for everyone SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2025 Projections for the booming space economy often come with trillion-dollar headlines, but the lion’s share of near-term revenue looks destined for just a handful of massive constellations with the funds to invest in verti...
NASA extends ISS National Lab management contract through 2030 SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2025 The Center for Advancement of Science in Space will continue to manage the International Space Station National Laboratory for at least another five years, CASIS announced on Thursday. CAS...
Greece deploys first national ICEYE radar satellites for disaster monitoring SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025 Two new ICEYE radar satellites have entered service under Greece's National Small Satellite Programme, expanding the country's capacity to track floods, wildfires, landslides and other ha...
Italian Earth observation fleet gains eight new IRIDE satellites SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025 Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme has expanded with the launch of eight Eaglet II satellites, adding a second constellation to the growing national fleet. The spacecraft rode into...
Small satellite mission targets maritime activity monitoring from orbit SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 The OTTER Optical Traffic Tracking Experiment for Responsive Space satellite has entered service in orbit to support maritime monitoring following its launch on 28 November 2025 into an...
Congress warned that the U.S. faces a new space race with China SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2025 The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space - one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military advantage for gen...
UK plasma thruster test positions Pulsar Fusion for larger satellite propulsion SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 London, UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Pulsar Fusion and partners have tested what they describe as the largest space plasma engine yet fired in Britain, designed to provide high-thrust in-space propulsion for heavier satellites....
Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into life SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 An international team from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany has proposed that life on Earth may have emerged within sticky, surface-bound gels that formed before the first cells. Th...
Hubble reobserves 3I/ATLAS ESA · 5 Dec 2025 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth. Hubble tracked the co...
Earth from Space: Singing dunes and mysterious lakes ESA · 5 Dec 2025 From the ESA Blogs.

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