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- Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests ESA · 9 Oct 2025 By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final key tests to confirm t...
- Stoke Space raises $510 million SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 Stoke Space, a company developing a fully reusable launch vehicle, has raised $510 million to fund operations through its first launches, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $1 billion.
- Stoke Space gives us another reason to take it very seriously Ars Technica · 8 Oct 2025 With the new investments, Stoke has raised nearly $1 billion.
- Defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic reshape space industry SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 European rearmament and Trump’s Golden Dome drive surge in investments and valuations, executives say
- Blue Origin flies sixth crewed New Shepard flight of 2025 SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 Blue Origin launched its sixth crewed New Shepard flight so far this year Oct. 8 as the company works to increase the vehicle’s flight rate.
- Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 The Space Force’s working capital fund will be used to buy satellite communications and other commercial space services with funds from internal Department of War customers
- Japan prepares new ISS cargo vehicle as trio of cargo spacecraft deliver new experiments and hardware NASASpaceflight · 8 Oct 2025 The International Space Station (ISS) recently welcomed three spacecraft that delivered much-needed cargo to support…
- AST SpaceMobile gains Verizon ally amid SpaceX’s direct-to-device push SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 AST SpaceMobile’s shares jumped more than 8% Oct. 8 after Verizon joined AT&T in signing a definitive agreement to use its planned space-based cellular network, easing investor concerns about SpaceX’s aggressive push int...
- Space Force taps Muon’s wildfire monitoring satellites for weather imaging SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 Muon Space won a $44.6 million contract to demonstrate dual-use environmental monitoring constellation
- Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars ESA · 8 Oct 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Blue Origin transports New Glenn booster to launch site ahead of Mars-bound mission Spaceflight Now · 8 Oct 2025 The booster named ‘Never Tell Me the Odds’ will support the launch of NASA’s EscaPADE mission, sending two washing machine-sized satellites on their way to Mars.
- The second New Glenn rolls to the launch pad—and they expect to recover this one Ars Technica · 8 Oct 2025 To be financially sustainable, New Glenn must be reused often.
- Golden Dome: What’s its story? SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 In fewer than 36 months, President Trump’s presidency will end. The question is, will his signature project — the Golden Dome — die with it? It could survive even if the Republicans lose control of the House or Senate in...
- Space infrastructure investments surge to five-quarter high SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2025 Early-stage investor Space Capital said global investments in core space infrastructure climbed to a five-quarter high of $4.4 billion over the three months to the end of September, amid a breakout year for U.S. satellit...
- Satellites reveal the power of ocean swell ESA · 8 Oct 2025 During recent storms, satellites recorded ocean waves averaging nearly 20 metres high – as tall as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the largest ever measured from space. Moreover, satellite data now reveal that ocean swe...
- Sabca Secures €85 Million Ariane 6 Operational Phase Contract European Spaceflight · 8 Oct 2025 ArianeGroup has awarded an €85 million contract to Belgian aerospace and defence company Sabca for the production of Thrust Vector Control (TVC) systems for 27 Ariane 6 rockets. Sabca and ArianeGroup signed an initial co...
- Sentinel-1D preparations underway in Kourou ESA · 8 Oct 2025 The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite. Copernicus Sentinel-1D has now undergone the checks and functional tests prior to its integration with Ariane 6, ready for launch later this year.
- Rehearsing for Sentinel-6B’s early days in space ESA · 8 Oct 2025 Last month, mission controllers at ESA's mission control centre started a major simulations exercise to ensure that the next Copernicus Sentinel Earth Observation mission, Sentinel-6B, safely navigates its first days in...
- Scientists Make the Case for NASA Science SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Oct 2025 Government shutdown notwithstanding, 20 scientific organizations and the Congressman who represents NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center made the case for NASA science during a rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. At
- Sateliot hails first standards-based IoT connection from LEO to a commercial device SpaceNews · 7 Oct 2025 Spain’s Sateliot says it has achieved the first narrowband connection from a LEO satellite to a commercial IoT device built to global 5G standards known as 3GPP Release 17.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 7 Oct 2025 SpaceX will use its second most launched Falcon 9 booster to launch the Starlink 11-17 mission. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 8:54 p.m. PDT (11:54 p.m. EDT / 0354 UTC).
- Blue Origin wins $78.2 million contract to expand satellite processing infrastructure at Cape Canaveral SpaceNews · 7 Oct 2025 The contract is a public-private partnership agreement awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command
- Senators spar over plans to move shuttle Discovery SpaceNews · 7 Oct 2025 Efforts to move a shuttle orbiter from the Smithsonian to a Houston museum continues to stir debate among senators amid concerns about the cost and viability of such a move.
- Novaspace Projects $665B in Satellite Build and Launch Activity SpaceNews · 7 Oct 2025 43,000-Satellite Surge Reshapes Orbital Competition and Challenges Legacy GEO Models Paris, France [October 7, 2025] – Launched today, Novaspace’s 28th edition of Satellites to Be Built and Launched reveals a […]
- ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS ESA · 7 Oct 2025 Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars.
- Poland Adds Fourth Satellite to CAMILA Earth Observation Constellation European Spaceflight · 7 Oct 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the Polish Government, has awarded a contract extension to Creotech Instruments for the development and launch of a fourth satellite for the country’s CAMILA Earth observatio...
- Hera’s first year in space ESA · 7 Oct 2025 What a difference a year makes! Today Hera’s asteroid mission for planetary defence is cruising through deep space on the far side of the Sun, headed to its final destination: the Didymos binary asteroid system. But a ye...
- Britain’s space security needs more than government funding SpaceNews · 7 Oct 2025 London is the beating heart of global finance. Its banks, insurers and investors command influence far beyond our shores; its centers of research generate ideas of world-class quality. Yet when it comes to national secur...
- FCC launches ‘Space Month’ to fast-track satellite licensing and spectrum reforms SpaceNews · 6 Oct 2025 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr vowed Oct. 6 to accelerate satellite regulatory reforms, declaring October as “Space Month” at the U.S. regulator to overhaul licensing and spectrum rules amid mounting competition from China.
- Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 to launch five times, Blue Origin to launch crew NASASpaceflight · 6 Oct 2025 SpaceX is set to dominate the launch manifest for the first whole week of October…
- Laying the foundation for America’s space future SpaceNews · 6 Oct 2025 There really is no terrestrial parallel to space exploration. While American pioneers pushed westward with minimal government oversight, the space age began with government funds and directives. Today, what was once the...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on 90th Starlink mission of 2025 Spaceflight Now · 6 Oct 2025 The Starlink 10-59 mission will add 28 broadband internet satellites into the growing megaconstellation. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a launch window that opens at...
- ESA to Procure ISS Cargo Service to Meet Common Cost Obligations European Spaceflight · 6 Oct 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a call for proposals outlining its intention to purchase commercial cargo transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, which must be completed...
- Large Space Simulator gets a digital twin ESA · 6 Oct 2025 The Large Space Simulator, Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, routinely reproduces space conditions on Earth to test spacecraft before they fly into orbit. The facility is complex, and the current process of training a new...
- Cubic targets military satcom market with ‘Vector’ terminals SpaceNews · 6 Oct 2025 The company says its terminals can seamlessly switch between satellite constellations while withstanding electronic warfare threats
- Utilize the ISS as a resource: a common sense, fiscally responsible plan leveraging the International Space Station SpaceNews · 6 Oct 2025 NASA plans to spend approximately $1 billion of taxpayer money to destroy the International Space Station (ISS) in 2030. The ISS contains over $1.5 billion worth of space-grade materials already in orbit. Instead of thro...
- Navigating through interference at Jammertest ESA · 6 Oct 2025 Satellite navigation is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption, natural or intent...
- Firefly to acquire defense contractor SciTec in $855 million deal SpaceNews · 5 Oct 2025 The acquisition would expand Firefly’s footprint in the defense market, where Firefly is trying to capture opportunities in the Golden Dome program
- ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia SpaceNews · 5 Oct 2025 The European Space Agency has inaugurated a new deep space antenna in Australia as part of efforts to strengthen ties between Europe and Australia in space.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy October 5-11, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Oct 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of October 5-11, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this week.