2025 09 News
13 Sep 2025
- NASA reestablishes contact with one of two TRACERS satellites
- Golden Dome’s cost: anywhere from billions to trillions, depending on design
- 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details
12 Sep 2025
- Apex reaches billion-dollar valuation with Series D funding round
- Cailabs raises $67 million to scale up production of optical ground stations
- Firefly pitches rockets, satellites for Golden Dome
- Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS
11 Sep 2025
- Firefly pitches rockets, satellites for Golden Dome
- Sophia and Armada link terrestrial and orbital edge processors
- House appropriators offer support to threatened NASA missions
- Eutelsat partners with Skynopy to explore opening OneWeb ground stations to Earth observation
- NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?
10 Sep 2025
- NASA highlights potential evidence of past life in Martian rock
- Boeing turns to 3D printing to speed production of satellite solar arrays
- Rendezvous Robotics raises funding to develop technology for self-assembling space structures
- Japan’s IHI expands constellation plans with SatVu thermal imaging partnership
- Musk confident Starship will start launching 100 tons to orbit next year
09 Sep 2025
- Maxar to supply 3D terrain data for U.S. Army mixed-reality system
- FCC closes EchoStar probes as spectrum sales reshape D2D race
- Airbus CEO ‘very committed’ to combination of European space businesses
- China launches mystery Yaogan-45 spysat, expands Geesatcom constellation
- Office of Space Commerce loses 40% of budget in rescission
- China proposes flyby mission to asteroid Apophis during 2029 Earth encounter
- BlackSky and Iceye join group creating Earth’s digital twin
- Europe ramps up direct-to-device push amid SpaceX’s multibillion-dollar expansion
- After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch
- SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”
08 Sep 2025
- BlackSky and Iceye join group creating Earth’s digital twin
- Commercial firms team up to demonstrate hypersonic vehicle tracking capabilities
- Europe ramps up direct-to-device push amid SpaceX’s $19 billion service boost
- Tournear leaves Space Development Agency for new role at Auburn University
- EchoStar sells spectrum to SpaceX, cancels MDA satellite contract
- Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage
- On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar
07 Sep 2025
- Blue Origin, Anduril win military ‘rocket cargo’ study contracts
- China launches new set of Yaogan-40 satellites into polar orbit
06 Sep 2025
- Pentagon announces senior U.S. Space Force leadership changes
- NASA releases details on revised next phase of commercial space station development
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”