2025 12 News
16 Dec 2025
[edit]- Vantor partners with Niantic Spatial on GPS-free navigation for defense market
- EraDrive raises $5.3 million for software-hardware kits to enhance satellite autonomy
- SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch
- China launches experimental cargo spacecraft, opaque tech demo mission and remote sensing satellite
- MAVEN telemetry shows changes to spacecraft orbit and rotation
- The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete
15 Dec 2025
[edit]- Space Force uses AI challenge to push everyday use of artificial intelligence
- NASA to test SpaceX’s Starshield in pilot program
- GomSpace to provide RF subsystem for Apolink LEO relay demonstrator
- Starfish Space and Impulse Space demonstrate autonomous spacecraft proximity operations
- MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing
- Live coverage: ULA Atlas 5 launch will put Amazon’s 180th broadband satellite in low Earth orbit
- Rocket Lab to launch second of three planned Electron rockets this week
- Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China
14 Dec 2025
[edit]- Rocket Lab launches JAXA tech demo satellite
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center
13 Dec 2025
[edit]- SpaceX executive confirms interest in an IPO
- Live coverage: SpaceX aims for 550th booster landing amid Saturday night flight
12 Dec 2025
[edit]- Intuitive Machines and Telespazio to collaborate on lunar satellite networks
- China plans 2026 debut of new rocket for crewed lunar and LEO missions
- Space Force Association unveils virtual ‘National Spacepower Center’ for education and wargaming
- NASA advances heliophysics mission into next phase
- China launches new Guowang satellites, Long March 12A launch and landing attempt date set
- SpaceX IPO plan sets stage for a surge of other space listings
- Study: Current, future megaconstellations risk space-based astronomy
- Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing “Giga” satellites
- Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, whither Orbex?
11 Dec 2025
[edit]- SpaceX IPO plan sets stage for a surge of other space listings
- K2 Space raises $250 million to scale high-power satellite line
- BAE Systems wins $16 million DARPA award to advance autonomous satellite tasking
- Report identifies science objectives of human Mars exploration
- GEO satellite refueling a priority for national security, commercial markets, new analysis finds
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
10 Dec 2025
[edit]- Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing
- Multiple space companies join NATO’s DIANA defense accelerator
- Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network
- China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft
- Colliding space debris produces radio bursts, raising prospect of ‘debris weather’ alerts
- Odin Space raises $3 million in seed funding
- Benchmark demonstrates high-throughput ASCENT thruster in hotfire testing at Edwards Air Force Base
- NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
- Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power
- SpaceX launches 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025
- After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions
09 Dec 2025
[edit]- Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk
- Canada picks Telesat and MDA to study Arctic military communications constellation
- TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services
- LeoLabs lands interagency contract to feed TraCSS and track adversarial spacecraft
- Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites
- Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital data center race
- China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets
- Senate committee advances Isaacman nomination a second time
- Soyuz safely lands in Kazakhstan
- SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
- Asked why we need Golden Dome, the man in charge points to a Hollywood film
- In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars
- NASA astronauts will have their own droid when they go back to the Moon
08 Dec 2025
[edit]- Pentagon weighs consolidation of DIU tech portfolio
- How Spain and Poland pushed Europe’s new priorities with record contributions
- Study quantifies costs of EU Space Act to European and U.S. companies
- NASA extends agreement with CASIS for ISS national lab
- Guetlein defends Golden Dome secrecy, says industry is ‘well informed’ despite criticism
- China hearing focuses on U.S. policy shortfalls
07 Dec 2025
[edit]- Guetlein defends Golden Dome secrecy, says industry is ‘well informed’ despite criticism
- China hearing focuses on U.S. policy shortfalls
- SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
06 Dec 2025
[edit]05 Dec 2025
[edit]- Castelion raises $350 million to scale hypersonic missile production
- Northrop Grumman continues solid rocket motor development and test program
- Orbex trails other European Launcher Challenge companies as U.K. delays funding decision
- China faces temporary emergency launch gap after space station lifeboat crisis
- International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations
- Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?
04 Dec 2025
[edit]- Final proposals leave SpaceX and Amazon with 4% of $20 billion rural broadband subsidies
- Washington Harbour deepens space portfolio with investment in Trusted Space
- How Starlink’s explosive growth is reshaping connectivity in an increasingly connected world
- Roscosmos replaces cosmonaut on next Crew Dragon mission to ISS
- Missile Defense Agency clarifies ‘SHIELD’ vendor selection is not a Golden Dome preview
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandengerg SFB
- Orion hatch ‘blemish’ delays launch day rehearsal for Artemis 2 astronauts
- Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026
03 Dec 2025
[edit]- Isaacman, senators emphasize urgency in returning humans to the moon
- Missile Defense Agency clarifies ‘SHIELD’ vendor selection is not a Golden Dome preview
- SLI bets on satellite leasing with $200 million commitment to AscendArc
- Space Force top buyer says rapid commercial innovation is reshaping military space strategy
- Shield AI partners with Sedaro to demonstrate autonomous satellite operations
- Antares raises $96 million for nuclear reactors on Earth and in space
- Zhuque-3 reaches orbit on test flight, first stage lost during landing attempt
- Honoring a career opening doors for the commercial space sector
- Defending NASA science in the face of sweeping budget cuts
- Jared Isaacman makes second appeal for NASA administrator position
- A spectacular explosion shows China is close to obtaining reusable rockets
- NASA nominee appears before Congress, defends plans to revamp space agency
- Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes
02 Dec 2025
[edit]- BAE Systems, GlobalFoundries team up to modernize chipmaking for space
- Isar Aerospace wins launch contract for European tech demo satellite
- Vega C launches South Korean satellite
- Reditus Space joins reusable satellite wave with $7 million seed round
- Arianespace launches South Korean Earth observation satellite on Vega-C flight
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
- NASA seeks a “warm backup” option as key decision on lunar rover nears