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- NASA, Partners Push Forward with Remotely Piloted Airspace Integration NASA · 16 Sep 2025 NASA and its partners recently tested a tool for remotely piloted operations that could enable operators to transport people and goods more efficiently within urban areas. The team’s goal is to ensure that when these rem...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 16 Sep 2025 The Starlink 17-12 mission will send the two dozen broadband internet satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:43 a.m. PDT (11:43 a.m. EDT / 15...
- Architecture Workshop Registration Requests NASA · 16 Sep 2025 Please fill out the form below to request registration for the 2026 Moon to Mars Architecture workshops. A request to register does not guarantee participation in the event. Form coming soon…
- Starship Block 3 development continues at Starbase and McGregor NASASpaceflight · 16 Sep 2025 SpaceX is gearing up for the next evolution of Starship, with Block 3 hardware on…
- Webinar Series: Teaching with EMERGE & GLOBE Mission Mosquito NASA · 16 Sep 2025 Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners! The Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a science and education p...
- Kepler Communications CEO talks sovereignty, security, and space data SpaceNews · 16 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 Mina Mitry, CEO of Kepler Communications.
- An Eye-catching Star Cluster NASA · 16 Sep 2025 Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, blue, purple, and orange...
- A new report finds China’s space program will soon equal that of the US Ars Technica · 16 Sep 2025 China "poised to overtake us in the next five to 10 years if we don't do something."
- SpaceX planning first tests of new direct-to-device spectrum next year SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 SpaceX expects to begin testing direct-to-device services using newly acquired spectrum from EchoStar as soon as the end of next year.
- Viasat and Space42 to pool satellite spectrum for direct-to-device services SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 Viasat and Space42 have agreed to combine geostationary Mobile Satellite Services resources, aiming to create the world’s largest coordinated spectrum block for direct-to-device services within three years.
- PLD Space Completes MIURA 5 Stage 1 Burst Test European Spaceflight · 16 Sep 2025 Spanish rocket builder PLD Space has successfully completed a burst test of a full-scale prototype of its MIURA 5 first stage booster. PLD Space was founded in 2011 and is developing a range of launch vehicles from its s...
- BlackSky wins second NGA ‘Luno’ contract to track global changes with satellites and AI SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 The deal underscores NGA’s push to fold commercial satellite data and artificial intelligence into U.S. national security workflows.
- Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission Get Official Names NASA · 16 Sep 2025 The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.
- How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Unveil Our Home Galaxy Using Cosmic Dust NASA · 16 Sep 2025 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components — gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium. One of Roman’s major o...
- SES moves to iterative MEO deployment with K2 Space partnership SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 SES announced plans Sept. 16 to deploy a satellite co-developed with manufacturing startup K2 Space early next year, marking the start of a more iterative approach to upgrading its MEO broadband constellation.
- NASA Makes Webby 30s List of Most Iconic, Influential on Internet NASA · 16 Sep 2025 NASA has earned a spot on The Webby 30, a curated list celebrating 30 companies and organizations that have shaped the digital landscape. “This honor reflects the talent of NASA’s communications professionals who bring o...
- Laser communications supplier Mynaric signals recovery after production setbacks SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 The company delivered 84 terminals to York Space and Northrop Grumman for the military constellation known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
- Astro Digital to plug into Star Catcher solar-energy grid SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 PARIS – Astro Digital announced plans Sept. 16 to purchase and distribute power from Florida startup Star Catcher’s future space-based energy grid. The goal is to enable ESPA-class satellites like Astro Scale’s Corvus XL...
- Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries ESA · 16 Sep 2025 Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these o...
- The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way ESA · 16 Sep 2025 Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these o...
- Josef Aschbacher on geopolitics and Europe’s changing space debate SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 PARIS – Josef Aschbacher, the head of the European Space Agency, said member states are quickly changing how they view space, from its role in geopolitics, to the need for sovereign capabilities to working more closely w...
- How SpaceX turned a Texas marsh into the world’s most watched spaceport SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 EDITOR’S NOTE: Starbase is SpaceX’s massive rocket development site and the home of Starship — the vehicle Elon Musk envisions as humanity’s path to Mars and that many in the U.S. civil space program see as a way back to...
- Keys to the Moon: ESA hands over third European Service Module ESA · 16 Sep 2025 Teams from ESA, Airbus, NASA and Lockheed Martin stand before the service module for Artemis III at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
- “We know the drill”: Sentinel-1D begins streamlined simulations training ESA · 16 Sep 2025 For over a decade, mission control teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have successfully commissioned and operated most of the Sentinel fleet of satellites. This week, in preparation of the coming launch...
- A cell’s-eye view of altered gravity and ageing ESA · 16 Sep 2025 Muscle weakening, bone density loss and an impaired immune system: the systemic health impacts of spaceflight bear many similarities to ageing. Sharon van Rijthoven, a student from Delft University of Technology and Vrij...
- Moon geology lessons for Artemis ESA · 16 Sep 2025 Cindy Evans, Artemis lead for geology training, and Juliane Gross, Artemis sample curation lead, joined the PANGAEA training in the Lofoten islands, Norway, in july 2025.
- CNES Call Reveals Inaugural Callisto Flight Test Pushed to 2027 European Spaceflight · 16 Sep 2025 A 12 September call for proposals published by the French space agency CNES has revealed that the inaugural flight of the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator has slipped from 2026 to 2027. Conceived in 2015, the Cooper...
- SDA picks GMV to build next-generation space safety system SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 The Space Data Association has picked Spanish technology provider GMV to upgrade and operate its global space traffic coordination platform starting early next year, the non-profit group of satellite operators announced...
- Isar Aerospace prepares for second Spectrum launch SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2025 A loss of attitude control and an open valve contributed to the loss of Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum rocket in March as the company gears up for a second flight.
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions NASA · 15 Sep 2025 NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood. Launching with IMAP (Interstellar Mappin...
- Launch Roundup: Starlink, NRO, and New Shepard missions scheduled NASASpaceflight · 15 Sep 2025 Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX dominating the launch manifest with four…
- Telesat pitches Lightspeed as stopgap to Europe’s IRIS² SpaceNews · 15 Sep 2025 Canada’s Telesat is pitching Lightspeed as a bridge to IRIS² as its LEO broadband constellation is set to come online in 2027, at least three years before Europe’s sovereign multi-orbit network is due to enter service.
- NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Services Contract NASA · 15 Sep 2025 NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and Mission Assurance II (SMAS II)...
- NASA Analysis Shows Sun’s Activity Ramping Up NASA · 15 Sep 2025 It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research. The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is k...
- Connecting Educators with NASA Data: Learning Ecosystems Northeast in Action NASA · 15 Sep 2025 One of the challenges many teachers face year after year is a sense of working alone. Despite the constant interaction with students many questions often linger: Did the lesson stick? Will students carry this knowledge w...
- Inside ESA’s vision with Josef Aschbacher SpaceNews · 15 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 Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Spa...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a View NASA · 15 Sep 2025 Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday Sept. 12, 2025 Curiosity continues to image, analyze, and traverse through a landscape char...
- York Space hits milestone with largest satellite delivery yet SpaceNews · 15 Sep 2025 CEO says years of scaling up production are paying off as Pentagon ramps constellation orders
- Swissto12 clears PDR for debut small GEO D2D satellite SpaceNews · 15 Sep 2025 Swissto12 has completed the Preliminary Design Review for its first direct-to-device connectivity satellite, the Swiss small geostationary spacecraft manufacturer announced Sept. 15.
- Launch companies double down on increasing flight rates despite setbacks SpaceNews · 15 Sep 2025 Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.