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- Ship 38 on Pad 1 for Static Fire testing as Masseys rebuild continues NASASpaceflight · 20 Sep 2025 As SpaceX presses on with attempts to complete static fire testing with Ship 38 ahead…
- CNES Pushes FROG-H Reusable Rocket Demonstrator Debut to 2026 European Spaceflight · 20 Sep 2025 The French space agency CNES has confirmed to European Spaceflight that the debut of its upgraded FROG reusable rocket demonstrator has been pushed to 2026. The FROG-H vehicle had been expected to complete initial test f...
- NASA revives VIPER lunar rover mission with Blue Origin lander award SpaceNews · 20 Sep 2025 NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover mission by selecting Blue Origin to deliver it to the moon’s south pole in 2027.
- The Ancient Mars Variety Show NASA · 19 Sep 2025 Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a few days. Whi...
- VIPER Might Have A New Ride to the Moon on Blue Origin SpacePolicyOnline.com · 19 Sep 2025 NASA’s much-anticipated but imperiled VIPER lunar rover got some good news today. More than a year after NASA announced it was terminating the mission even though the rover is completely
- Amid budget uncertainty, NASA gets some good news: Use House funding levels Ars Technica · 19 Sep 2025 The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought.
- After a very slow start, Europe’s reusable rocket program shows signs of life Ars Technica · 19 Sep 2025 Although Themis is making progress, the program is several years behind schedule.
- China promotes direct-to-device satellite services with new guidelines and licensing SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 China has moved to promote direct-to-device (D2D) services through issuing guidelines and licensing a telecommunications firm, signaling a strategic push into a globally competitive arena.
- NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole NASA · 19 Sep 2025 As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s...
- ArianeGroup Completes Themis Integration Ahead of Combined Tests European Spaceflight · 19 Sep 2025 ArianeGroup has announced that the first Themis reusable rocket demonstrator has been fully integrated and is on its own four legs on a launch pad in Sweden. The demonstrator will now be put through a combined test campa...
- Live Event: The Space Investment Horizon SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 For more than six decades, the United States has pursued the promise of nuclear power in space — a technology capable of delivering energy where sunlight can’t reach and enabling missions beyond the limits of chemical pr...
- NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Secures Critical Abort System Hardware for Artemis II NASA · 19 Sep 2025 All the pieces are stacking up – literally – for NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program coming in 2026. Teams are finishing integration of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight with its launch a...
- Shaping the new era of space SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 In this week’s special CEO Series edition of Space Minds, we're at the World Space Business Week in Paris. In today's episode, SpaceNews editor Mike Gruss talks with Pacome Revillon, CEO of Novaspace.
- Novaspace Recognizes 2025 Excellence Award Winners in Satellite Connectivity, Earth Observation, and Startup Challenge at World Space Business Week SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 Paris, September 19, 2025 – Novaspace proudly recognized the 2025 winners of its Annual Excellence Awards and the WSBW Startup Challenge during the 28th edition of the World Space Business […]
- A Beacon to Space NASA · 19 Sep 2025 In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon t...
- Building Saudi Arabia’s space champion SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 Neo Space Group CEO Martijn Blanken explains how the Saudi-backed space services company is balancing sovereign demand with global ambitions.
- Week in images: 15-19 September 2025 ESA · 19 Sep 2025 Week in images: 15-19 September 2025
- American leadership at Apophis SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 We are fewer than four years away from what may be the most significant near-Earth asteroid event of the 21st century. On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis — named for the Egyptian god of chaos — will pass so close to...
- Rocket Report: European rocket reuse test delayed; NASA tweaks SLS for Artemis II Ars Technica · 19 Sep 2025 "There’s a lot of interest because of the fear that there’s just not a lot of capacity."
- Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart NASA · 19 Sep 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds made of clumps and streaks of dust and gas. This image features the s...
- Taiwanese aerospace firm partners with Maxar on GPS-alternative drone navigation SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 The satellite imagery company’s Raptor software uses terrain mapping to guide UAVs when satellite signals are jammed or unavailable
- 85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica ESA · 19 Sep 2025 Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica’s icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea l...
- Earth from Space: Komodo Island, Indonesia ESA · 19 Sep 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Themis stands on the launch pad ESA · 19 Sep 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space Cargo Unlimited Secures €27.5M for BentoBox Return Capsule European Spaceflight · 19 Sep 2025 In-space logistics provider Space Cargo Unlimited has closed a €27.5 million Series A funding round to continue the development of its BentoBox return capsule. In late 2022, Space Cargo Unlimited partnered with Thales Al...
- Space Cargo Unlimited Secures €27.5M for BentoBox Payload Platform European Spaceflight · 19 Sep 2025 In-space logistics provider Space Cargo Unlimited has closed a €27.5 million Series A funding round to continue the development of its BentoBox payload platform. In late 2022, Space Cargo Unlimited partnered with Thales...
- Space Norway and SSTL collaborate on radar satellite program SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2025 Space Norway and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) are working together on a radar satellite for maritime domain awareness, the first of potentially several such spacecraft.
- Launch startup iSpace secures fresh funding as hot fire tests heat up China’s reusable rocket race SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 Launch startup iSpace has raised significant series D+ funding as commercial competitors in China report progress with hot fire tests.
- From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II NASA · 18 Sep 2025 Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and...
- U.S., UK Space Commands execute first joint satellite maneuvers SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 The milestone operation marks an expansion of allied cooperation in the increasingly militarized space domain
- NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations NASA · 18 Sep 2025 The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology s...
- NASA Gateways to Blue Skies 2026 Competition NASA · 18 Sep 2025 The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide. This netwo...
- Hubble Network raises $70 million to accelerate 60-satellite Bluetooth constellation SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — Hubble Network has secured $70 million in Series B funding to help deploy a 60-satellite constellation capable of connecting up to a billion Bluetooth devices worldwide by 2028. The Seattle-based venture an...
- NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth NASA · 18 Sep 2025 A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses...
- ISS Operations Continue with New Cargo and Crews Space Scout · 18 Sep 2025 NASA’s flagship laboratory, the International Space Station (ISS), has returned to a period of normalcy, but as the facility approaches its third decade of operation - considerable shakeups and changes are expected as th...
- Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon NASA · 18 Sep 2025 NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded with radios, cameras, and antennas to test technology that might someday keep explorers connected on the lunar surface. Their mission: test how astronauts on the Moon will...
- New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’ NASA · 18 Sep 2025 A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the...
- Milky Way Views NASA · 18 Sep 2025 The Milky Way appears above Earth’s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The ca...
- Educating customers may be half the battle for nascent hyperspectral sector SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 PARIS – A significant challenge for hyperspectral satellite operators is alerting potential customers to promising applications, according to speakers at the Summit on Earth Observation Business here. Hyperspectral datas...
- Blue Origin retires New Shepard capsule after payload flight SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 Blue Origin is retiring a New Shepard capsule that flew a dozen uncrewed missions over nearly eight years.