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- Honoring the Best in Space: 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Open SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Are Due Sept. 12 We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards are now open. Established in 2017 as the […]
- NASA names exploration official as associate administrator SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025 NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency.
- Space Force to use small satellites for geostationary communications SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025 The Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program marks the military’s first major attempt to deploy constellations of small satellites in the geostationary belt
- Orbital Paradigm Secures Three Customers for 2025 Reentry Capsule Demo European Spaceflight · 4 Sep 2025 Spanish startup Orbital Paradigm has announced that it has secured three customers for a flight aboard its KID subscale reentry demonstrator capsule, scheduled for launch in late 2025. Founded in 2023, Orbital Paradigm i...
- Second MTG-Imager satellite passes thermal vacuum test ESA · 4 Sep 2025 The second of the Meteosat Third Generation Imagers, MTG-I2, has passed some important milestones in the cleanroom facilities at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, southern France.
- AscendArc lands South Korea’s KT Sat as anchor small GEO customer SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025 Portland, Oregon-based AscendArc has sold its first small geostationary communications satellite to KT Sat, South Korea’s flagship operator.
- Former NASA Boss Bridenstine: US “Highly Unlikely” to Land on Moon Before China NASASpaceflight · 4 Sep 2025 In a pointed testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, former…
- Senators Insist Artemis Must Get America Back to the Moon Before China SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Sep 2025 NASA’s Artemis program to return American astronauts to the Moon won strong support from the Senate Commerce Committee today. Senators from both parties issued a clarion call to get Americans
- Ted Cruz criticizes Trump plan to cancel SLS and Lunar Gateway as “folly” Ars Technica · 3 Sep 2025 "It is highly unlikely the United States will beat China’s projected timeline."
- Senate hearing raises doubts about NASA’s ability to get astronauts to the moon before China SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2025 A former NASA administrator told senators he believed it was “highly unlikely” the agency would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there.
- Telesat to offer blocks of satellite bandwidth to DoD for Golden Dome SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2025 The satellite operator is positioning its Lightspeed LEO constellation as a data-transport solution for the Pentagon’s missile defense shield
- PERSEI Space to test tether solution for orbital mobility NASASpaceflight · 3 Sep 2025 In the increasingly crowded corridors of low-Earth orbit, a Spanish company is pioneering technology that…
- FAA Approves Expanded Falcon 9 Operations at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 with New Landing Zone The Launch Pad · 3 Sep 2025 FAA Approves Expanded Falcon 9 Operations at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 with New Landing Zone
- Thinning Arctic Sea Ice NASA · 3 Sep 2025 Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the NASA Scien...
- ESA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ESA · 3 Sep 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automated detection systems, ESA astronomers began using ground-based t...
- Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge NASA · 3 Sep 2025 The next era of lunar exploration demands a new kind of wheel – one that can sprint across razor-sharp regolith, shrug off extremely cold nights, and keep a rover rolling day after lunar day. The Rock and Roll with NASA...
- Acting NASA Administrator Duffy Selects Exploration-Focused Associate Administrator NASA · 3 Sep 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Wednesday named Amit Kshatriya as the new associate administrator of NASA, the agency’s top civil service role. A 20-year NASA veteran, Kshatriya was most recently the deputy in ch...
- CNES Signs €31M Contract for Space-Based 5G Connectivity Demo European Spaceflight · 3 Sep 2025 The French space agency CNES has signed a €31 million contract with Paris-based startup UNIVITY and telecommunications and broadcasting giant TDF to conduct an in-orbit demonstration of satellite-enabled 5G connectivity....
- Stakeholders in direct-to-device services have to act now to defend their interests at the WRC-27 SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2025 Last February, I wrote that the merger of the satellite and terrestrial cellular industry was not yet a marriage made in heaven. However, at the Mobile World Congress , held last March in Barcelona, I noticed that Non-Te...
- Companies race to win ground transportation contracts for the moon SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2025 A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the moon but instead in Colorado, at a site sel...
- A robotic real-time strategy game in space ESA · 3 Sep 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Juno Detected the Final Missing Auroral Signature from Jupiter’s Four Largest Moons NASA · 3 Sep 2025 Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet interacts with the solar wind and moons swept by Jupiter’s magneti...
- Interview with Dr. Caleb Scharf NASA · 3 Sep 2025 _________________________________________________________________________________________ In the following interview, questions from the interviewer, Fred Van Wert, are in bold, and Caleb Scharf’s responses are in regula...
- Trump Moves U.S. Space Command to Alabama SpacePolicyOnline.com · 2 Sep 2025 President Trump announced today he is moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. The decision has been expected since he returned to office, restoring a decision
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Wednesday sunrise Falcon 9 flight Spaceflight Now · 2 Sep 2025 The Starlink 10-22 mission will be the 75th orbital launch from Florida’s Space Coast in 2025. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:06 a.m. EDT (1106 UTC).
- Live coverage: SpaceX’s Tuesday night Starlink features rare debut of a Falcon booster Spaceflight Now · 2 Sep 2025 The Starlink 17-8 mission will be just the seventh new booster for the company out of more than 100 launches this year. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:21 p.m. PDT (11:21 p.m....
- NASA 2026 Human Lander Challenge NASA · 2 Sep 2025 NASA’s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate’s (ESDMD’s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development a...
- Lydia Rodriguez Builds a Career of Service and Support at NASA NASA · 2 Sep 2025 Lydia Rodriguez is an office administrator in the Flight Operations Directorate’s Operations Division and Operations Tools and Procedures Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Over nearly two decades, she has...
- Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System” Ars Technica · 2 Sep 2025 "We need better than just window dressing."
- What’s Up: September 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Sep 2025 Saturn’s spectacle, a Conjunction, and the Autumnal Equinox Saturn shines throughout the month, a conjunction sparkles in the sky, and we welcome the autumnal equinox. Skywatching Highlights Transcript What’s Up for Sept...
- Circular Star Trails NASA · 2 Sep 2025 On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph – taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module – capturing the circular arcs of sta...
- Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth NASA · 2 Sep 2025 Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that wi...
- Tech From NASA’s Hurricane-hunting TROPICS Flies on Commercial Satellites NASA · 2 Sep 2025 NASA science and American industry have worked hand-in-hand for more than 60 years, transforming novel technologies created with NASA research into commercial products like cochlear implants, memory-foam mattresses, and...
- Celeste mission patch ESA · 2 Sep 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- SpaceX McGregor looks to the future, from Raptor 3 to potential HLS testing NASASpaceflight · 2 Sep 2025 SpaceX’s engine development and testing site in McGregor—the world’s most active rocket engine test facility—continues…
- EU to Commission Mobile Responsive Launch System Studies European Spaceflight · 2 Sep 2025 The European Commission has launched a call for studies to examine the potential of a mobile responsive launch system, a capability that would enable the rapid deployment of satellites into orbit from non-permanent (mobi...
- New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first data ESA · 2 Sep 2025 Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, of...
- Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch five Falcon 9 missions this week NASASpaceflight · 1 Sep 2025 Five Falcon 9 launches make up the launch manifest for this week. Collectively, four of…
- Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons back to Sun ESA · 1 Sep 2025 The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from our star.
- Trump’s Labor Union EO Designates NASA as Primarily An Intelligence/National Security Agency SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Sep 2025 An Executive Order issued by President Trump to exclude NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights does so by designating them as having intelligence or national security as a