2025 09 News

05 Sep 2025

• Orbital Sidekick hyperspectral imagery sheds light on damage caused to Iranian nuclear facility
• China launches experimental Shiyan-29 to GEO, commercial Ceres-1 carries 3 satellites
• GHGSat to provide methane monitoring for ExxonMobil
• Duffy pushes back against testimony that NASA is falling behind China in lunar exploration
• NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon
• Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light

04 Sep 2025

• Orbital Paradigm readies first reentry mission
• Space Force graduates first class of officers trained for ‘great power competition’
• Project Kuiper scores first airline win as JetBlue picks LEO over GEO
• Honoring the Best in Space: 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Open
• NASA names exploration official as associate administrator
• Space Force to use small satellites for geostationary communications
• AscendArc lands South Korea’s KT Sat as anchor small GEO customer
• Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

03 Sep 2025

• Senate hearing raises doubts about NASA’s ability to get astronauts to the moon before China
• Telesat to offer blocks of satellite bandwidth to DoD for Golden Dome
• Spacedock to demonstrate modular payload interface with Oligo and Melagen
• European customer leases SI Imaging Services’ SpaceEye-T
• Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

02 Sep 2025

• Trump directs U.S. Space Command move to Huntsville, reversing Biden decision
• True Anomaly hires former York Space executive as chief operating officer
• NASA advances lunar nuclear plan with commercial focus
• European customer leases SI Imaging Services’ SpaceEye-T
• Scaling smallsats: A conversation with Muon Space President Gregory Smirin
• Fuel supply is a bottleneck for Starship—here’s how SpaceX will get around it
• Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System”

01 Sep 2025

• Scaling smallsats: A conversation with Muon Space President Gregory Smirin
• Space Force wants to weave AI into everyday operations