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”