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- New military satcom services program to focus on ‘maneuverable’ small GEO satellites SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 The U.S. Space Force this week issued a new request for information for the Maneuverable Geosynchronous Orbit (MGEO) Commercial Satellite-Based Services program
- Construction Officially Begins on Multi-User Launch Facility in French Guiana European Spaceflight · 18 Sep 2025 The French space agency CNES has officially begun construction of a new multi-user commercial launch facility on the grounds of the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. In early 2021, CNES announced plans to convert the...
- Northrop Grumman cargo ship reaches space Station Spaceflight Now · 18 Sep 2025 The capture came after Northrop Grumman engineers adjusted the sensitivity of main engine fault detection software that prematurely triggered shut downs during two rendezvous thruster firings Tuesday.
- NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object NASA · 18 Sep 2025 In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking p...
- AI, sovereignty and the next generation of satellites SpaceNews · 18 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 Brian O'Toole, CEO of BlackSky.
- Stratospheric pseudo-satellites nearing commercial role in hybrid space networks SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 Stratospheric pseudo-satellites are shedding their reputation as fringe experiments as governments and industry step up demand, according to executives closing in on commercial services for their high-altitude platform s...
- Lone Star space: How Texas can revitalize its galactic industry SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 In 1970, the crew aboard Apollo 13 called back to Earth to report the catastrophic failure of its oxygen supply. Their famous phrase “Houston, we have a problem” and the subsequent solution piqued the national imaginatio...
- Cygnus arrives at ISS after thruster glitch SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 A Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 19 after a one-day delay caused by a thruster issue.
- Defense and security agencies propel demand for Earth-observation data SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 PARIS – Defense and security applications provided almost half of the revenue generated by Earth-observation satellites in 2024, Novaspace principal Annekatrien Debien said at the Summit on Earth Observation Business. Wh...
- Astra plans mid-2026 first launch of Rocket 4 SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 Astra is targeting next summer for the first flight of its Rocket 4 vehicle as the company prepares to reenter the launch market.
- Phoebus: keeping cool with oxygen ESA · 18 Sep 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Rocket Lab eyes Mars Telecommunications Orbiter as NASA revives mission concept NASASpaceflight · 18 Sep 2025 Rocket Lab—the operator of the world’s second-busiest orbital rocket—has been touting its vision for a…
- Arianespace examines options to increase Ariane 6 launch rate SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2025 Arianespace is weighing options to increase the launch rate of the Ariane 6 rocket beyond 10 per year if government and commercial demand supports it.
- NG-23 Cygnus Back on Track, Arrives at ISS Tomorrow SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Sep 2025 NASA and Northrop Grumman announced this evening that the NG-23 Cygnus cargo spacecraft is back on track enroute to the International Space Station. NG-23 was supposed to arrive there this
- Space Force chief: Current satellite tracking ‘too slow’ for modern threats SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 Speaking at the AMOS Conference, Saltzman calls for industry partnerships to accelerate capabilities in space domain awareness
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 17 Sep 2025 The Falcon 9 rocket supporting the Starlink 10-61 mission will fly on a north-easterly trajectory upon departing Florida’s Space Coast. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:3...
- NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Ready to Fly Crew NASA · 17 Sep 2025 NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineer...
- Space Force accelerates reorganization of acquisition units SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Systems Command, said the restructuring — centered on “System Deltas” that pair acquisition officers with operational commanders — is progressing at a fast pace.
- NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 NASA · 17 Sep 2025 The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has rea...
- NASA Rideshares Integrated Ahead of Launch NASA · 17 Sep 2025 Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable L...
- Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low NASA · 17 Sep 2025 With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice...
- Small GEO strategies diverge around vertical integration SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 The fledgling small geostationary satellite manufacturing market is splitting across a spectrum of vertical integration strategies as companies weigh sovereignty, speed and scale in reshaping space-based communications.
- Space Station Science NASA · 17 Sep 2025 NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Aug. 28, 2025, as part of an experiment that tests how microgravity affects bone-forming and bone-degra...
- NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space NASA · 17 Sep 2025 Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our s...
- XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change ESA · 17 Sep 2025 The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes. T...
- Poland to Commission Six Satellites as Added IRIS2 Contribution European Spaceflight · 17 Sep 2025 Poland’s Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy has announced that the country has allocated 2 billion PLN (€470 million) for the purchase of six secure communications satellites and the construction of the associated gro...
- Novaspace and the Occitanie Region Launch the Inaugural Space Summit for a Resilient Future in 2026 SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 Paris, September 17, 2025 – Novaspace, with the support of the Occitanie Region, will host the inaugural Space Summit for a Resilient Future on May 12–13, 2026 in Toulouse, France. […]
- Redwire’s global strategy from space to security SpaceNews · 17 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 Peter Cannito, CEO of Redwire.
- President Trump’s Golden Dome: golden dream or black nightmare? SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 With great fanfare, the newly installed American President Donald Trump launched the idea of the United States creating an “Iron Dome” to protect America against aerial threats, similar to how […]
- Maxar and Ecopia roll out AI-powered Earth mapping system SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 The product, called Vivid Features, combines Maxar’s satellite imagery archive with Ecopia’s artificial intelligence software
- Does Europe need a spaceplane? SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 PARIS – Europe should be investing in disruptive capabilities like spaceplanes, said Maj. Gen. Philippe Koffi, French armament agency DGA strategic lead for air, land and naval combat. “A spaceplane is maneuverable, reus...
- ReOrbit raises 45 million euros to increase spacecraft production SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 Finnish spacecraft developer ReOrbit has raised 45 million euros ($53.3 million) to increase spacecraft production to meet growing demand from government customers.
- Successful flight on Falcon 9 for EOS-8’’, MECANO ID’s Satellite Ejection System SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 Toulouse, France — MECANO ID, a leading provider of advanced mechanical and thermal solutions for the space industry, has reached a major milestone. On August 26, its EOS-8’’ satellite ejection […]
- Thruster issue delays Cygnus arrival at ISS SpaceNews · 17 Sep 2025 NASA is delaying the arrival of a Cygnus spacecraft at the International Space Station to investigate a thruster problem with the cargo vehicle.
- Cygnus Cargo Ship Enroute to ISS Experiences Propulsion Anomalies SpacePolicyOnline.com · 17 Sep 2025 The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship loaded with 11,000 pounds of experiments and supplies for the International Space Station will not dock tomorrow morning as planned. Launched on Sunday, the
- NASA, Northrop Grumman postpone Cygnus XL arrival to ISS following propulsion issue Spaceflight Now · 16 Sep 2025 The spacecraft was originally scheduled to dock with the International Space Station the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 17. An alternate plan is in the works.
- Project Kuiper plots broadband services in five countries by end of March SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 Amazon is preparing to double the size of its Project Kuiper constellation to over 200 satellites this year with three more launches, supporting broadband services in the U.S. and four other countries by the end of March...
- Impulse Space and Anduril to demonstrate autonomous spacecraft maneuvers in GEO SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 The demonstration, targeted for 2026, will attempt to showcase a spacecraft’s ability to approach, image and maneuver around other objects in orbit without direct human control
- Axiom and Spacebilt to establish ISS data center node SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 PARIS, France – Axiom Space and Spacebilt announced plans Sept. 16 to deliver a data center node with optical communications links to the International Space Station in 2027. The Axiom […]
- GHGSat announces $34 million in equity and debt financing SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 PARIS – GHGSat plans to expand its greenhouse gas monitoring constellation and analytic services with $47 million Canadian dollars ($34 million) in equity and debt financing announced Sept. 16 . […]