2025 08 News

31 Aug 2025

• Launch startup Orienspace secures B+ round funding, targets test flight

29 Aug 2025

• White House moves to eliminate NASA labor unions
• Rocket Lab inaugurates Neutron launch pad
• Rocket Report: SpaceX achieved daily launch this week; ULA recovers booster
• Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test

28 Aug 2025

• China’s Guangdong province lays out ambitious commercial space objectives
• Geost to supply two optical payloads for U.S. Space Force geostationary missions
• NASA developing plan to acquire Mars telecom orbiter
• With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

27 Aug 2025

• Avio, Isar Aerospace win first European “Flight Ticket” awards
• Satellite software firm wins funds in San José’s inaugural AI startup incentive program
• Pentagon R&D chief: Defense needs to expand industrial base
• SpaceX launches Luxembourg imaging satellite, seven rideshare payloads
• Aerospacelab eyes leading IRIS² manufacturing role after raising $110 million
• Live coverage: Record-breaking 30th flight planned for SpaceX Falcon 9 booster as it launches Starlink satellites
• SpaceX completes 400th Falcon booster landing on a drone ship
• SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
• SpaceX successfully launches Super Heavy-Starship on critical test flight
• Lawmaker: Trump’s Golden Dome will end the madness, and that’s not a good thing
• Russian space official: “We need to stop lying to ourselves” about health of industry
• Under pressure after setbacks, SpaceX’s huge rocket finally goes the distance

26 Aug 2025

• XTAR eyes U.S. defense market expansion with next-gen satellites
• Aerospacelab eyes leading IRIS² manufacturing role after raising $110 million
• Satellite constellations fall short of meeting brightness goals
• Live coverage: SpaceX tries for third time to launch Starship Flight 10 from Starbase, Texas
• SpaceX launches Luxembourg’s NAOS, 7 other rideshare satellites from California
• With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

25 Aug 2025

• DeepSat wins AFWERX contract for very low Earth orbit monitoring
• China is about to start trying to land and reuse its rockets
• York Space delivers 21 satellites for first deployment of U.S. military network
• Cargo ship docks with International Space Station
• Live coverage: SpaceX preps for Starship Flight 10 following Sunday scrub
• SpaceX’s latest Dragon mission will breathe more fire at the space station
• With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency

24 Aug 2025

• Cargo Dragon to demonstrate ISS reboost
• Rocket Lab launches five satellites for undisclosed commercial customer
• Live Coverage: SpaceX gets ready for crucial 10th test flight of Starship
• NASA, SpaceX launch Dragon to the ISS on extended cargo, station boosting mission
• Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

23 Aug 2025

• Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX to launch Cargo Dragon on a mission to boost space station orbit

22 Aug 2025

• Small GEOs, big impact
• Urban Sky wins STRATFI contract for stratospheric balloon technologies
• New rocket plans continue to emerge to support China's growing space ambitions
• SpaceX launches eighth mission of the X-37B military spaceplane
• Amentum begins work at U.S. space launch ranges after protest is withdrawn
• SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
• SpaceX launches Space Force's X-37B spaceplane to demo laser communications, quantum navigation
• Rocket Report: Pivotal Starship test on tap, Firefly wants to be big in Japan
• US military's X-37B spaceplane stays relevant with launch of another mission

21 Aug 2025

• ULA making new efforts on Vulcan reusability
• SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

20 Aug 2025

• West Virginia joins states handing satellites a tiny share of rural broadband subsidies
• Duffy comments seed doubts about future of NASA Earth science
• Firefly Aerospace explores launching its Alpha rocket from Japan
• Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center
• China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

19 Aug 2025

• Globalstar pursuing defense market with secure satcom services
• SpinLaunch raises $30 million for work on Meridian Space constellation
• China's CAS Space launches first Latin American payloads on Kinetica-1 rocket
• Blue Origin offers Mars communications orbiter concept

18 Aug 2025

• Platinum Equity buys Anuvu to boost airline connectivity
• Firefly signs agreement to study Alpha launches from Japan
• Italian-Dutch space company secures first U.S. contract
• Space Dynamics Lab makes new ties with the Space Force
• China launches test low-inclination satellite, new Guowang broadband group
• Blue Origin offers Mars communications orbiter concept
• After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon

17 Aug 2025

• Live coverage: 24 Starlink satellites to launch from California on 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year

16 Aug 2025

• SpaceX schedules 10th test flight for Starship, details recent setbacks

15 Aug 2025

• China conducts first seven-engine static fire test for moon rocket
• Chinese launch startup Landspace suffers Zhuque-2 failure
• FAA removes membership of space transportation advisory committee
• NASA's acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
• Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China's first drone ship
• SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

14 Aug 2025

• Space Force to absorb Air Guard space missions, sidestepping push for Space National Guard
• NASA awards contracts to study reboost of Swift astrophysics spacecraft
• White House issues executive order to revamp commercial space regulations
• Rogue expands staff ahead of planned double launch
• SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

13 Aug 2025

• Kongsberg gearing up for Arctic smallsat expansion
• Impulse Space sees strong demand for GEO rideshare program
• Burt's parting thoughts on the Space Force and its next chapter
• Flying 'standby' proves popular for SpaceX rideshares
• For military space, what tasks should be automated?
• Rogue expands staff ahead of planned double launch
• Ariane 6 launches European weather satellite
• ULA's Vulcan Centaur launches first national security mission
• Fully funded key-market coverage plan lifts AST SpaceMobile
• ULA launches Vulcan rocket on first Space Force mission
• After first operational launch, here's the next big test for ULA's Vulcan rocket

12 Aug 2025

• Pale Blue teams up with Mitsubishi Electric to advance water propulsion
• NASA emphasizes smallsats for science amid budget uncertainty
• ESCAPADE trajectory design creates new options for Mars smallsat missions
• Rocket Lab completes acquisition of U.S. satellite sensor maker Geost
• TraCSS moving past beta test of space traffic coordination system
• Autonomy improves performance of Aerospace cubesat optical links
• ThrustMe, Marble and Reflex to test iodine-fueled Hall-effect thruster
• Telespazio joins forces with Digantara and Intella
• Falcon 9 nearing its peak launch rate
• Live coverage: ULA to launch first national security mission on a Vulcan rocket
• Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

11 Aug 2025

• ULA's Vulcan to launch first national security mission
• Edgx raises seed funding to bring AI-powered computing to smallsats
• Ascending Node offers constellation-design tool
• For Europe's smallsat builders, new opportunities but also new problems
• Booz Allen Ventures hungry for more space investments
• Smallsat maker NOVI expands into remote sensing
• Anywaves pursues multinational strategy with Anywaves US
• KSAT to extend ground network with Hyper Loops
• NASA to assess LeoLabs' data for orbital collision avoidance
• Umbra expands into satellite hardware sales with new Space Systems unit
• Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

10 Aug 2025

• China's Geespace expands IoT constellation with 11-satellite sea launch
• Bad weather for Falcon 9 booster recovery prevents launch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites
• NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon--a space lawyer explains why

09 Aug 2025

• Crew-10 splashes down off California coast
• Crew 10 returns to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown

08 Aug 2025

• Industry supports NASA plans to accelerate work on lunar nuclear reactors
• Firefly soars in public market debut
• NASA Marshall offers dual-use tech for Golden Dome missile defense program
• Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut, dies at 97
• Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
• Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars
• Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle

07 Aug 2025

• ULA forecasts nine launches in 2025 but sharp increase for 2026
• China completes landing and takeoff test for crewed moon lander
• Orbital Operations raises seed round for orbital vehicle using liquid hydrogen fuel
• Astranis brings Anuvu satellites online, marking debut of private GEO network
• Muon Space to support global Bluetooth constellation with its largest satellite yet
• Telesat eyes Golden Dome opportunity for Lightspeed
• ULA's Tory Bruno lays out plans for ramping up launch cadence

06 Aug 2025

• Defense officials instructed to avoid mentioning 'Golden Dome for America' at major industry conference
• Voyager Technologies emphasizes missile defense and Starlab as key growth drivers
• From boots to orbits: Army develops space skills amid growing battlefield reliance on satellites
• NASA revises plans for commercial space station development
• NASA selects shuttle orbiter to move to Houston
• Northrop says investments position company for Golden Dome missile defense demand
• Houston, you've got a space shuttle... only NASA won't say which one
• NASA's new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

05 Aug 2025

• Interlune to fly instrument on Astrolab's FLIP rover
• Rocket Lab launches iQPS radar imaging satellite
• Lunar Outpost celebrates release of Lego Moon Rover Space Vehicle

04 Aug 2025

• Military leaders say integrated space power crucial for national defense
• Long March 12 launches first Guowang satellites developed by private firm
• European companies still in talks to combine their space businesses
• Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

03 Aug 2025

• Blue Origin flies crypto entrepreneur, five others on 14th crewed New Shepard flight
• Live coverage: Starlink mission marks SpaceX's 450th flight-proven Falcon booster launch

02 Aug 2025

• Why industry says Golden Dome's biggest challenge isn't missiles, it's data flow

01 Aug 2025

• Crew-11 launches to ISS
• Senators raise NASA funding concerns in letter to Duffy
• Albedo wins NRO Stage 2 imagery contract
• NASA, SpaceX 'thread the clouds' to launch Crew-11 to the International Space Station
• Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM
• The curious case of Russia's charm offensive with NASA this week
• The military's squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert