2025 08 News
31 Aug 2025
[edit]30 Aug 2025
[edit]29 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]22 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ULA making new efforts on Vulcan reusability
- SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?
20 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Live coverage: 24 Starlink satellites to launch from California on 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year
16 Aug 2025
[edit]15 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]08 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]01 Aug 2025
[edit]- 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