SAN FRANCISCO – Orbital Sidekick hyperspectral sensors revealed new information on damage sustained by Iran’s Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant after U.S. armed forces bombed the site in June. OSK’s Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) constellation exposed the outline of a rectangular subsurface structure, indicating “the potential collapse or damage of the underground facility,” according to […]

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China conducted a pair of launches sending an experimental spacecraft to geosynchronous orbit and three further satellites into polar orbits.

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SAN FRANCISCO – GHGSat and ExxonMobil Corp. announced a partnership Sept. 5 to monitor and mitigate methane emissions for onshore operations in North America and Asia. Collaboration between GHGSat, a Canadian firm focused on greenhouse-gas monitoring, and the multinational oil and gas company began in 2020 with field trials to demonstrate space-based technology for methane […]

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A new space race is heating up across the pond — not to be the first to reach the moon, but to provide a credible and flexible legal framework capable of turbocharging the space sectors in the United Kingdom and Europe.  The intensity of this drive has increased over the summer of 2025. On June […]

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NASA’s acting administrator said he was “angry” after a predecessor told Congress the agency was behind China in sending astronauts to the moon.

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During the 39th annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in August, SpaceNews hosted a group of industry leaders on our Space Minds podcast to discuss the latest in smallsats and where this part of the industry is headed. These excerpts from our conversations, which have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity, […]

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For years, satellite sensors have transmitted vast quantities of imagery to the ground, where analysts then discarded views obscured by clouds, identified natural features or objects and shared pictures with customers. The entire process took days. Recently, companies have cut the timeline to hours — or even less — through frequent contact with ground stations, […]

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A Spanish startup is entering the emerging reentry vehicle market with plans to develop a reusable capsule offering frequent flights.

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The new year-long program seeks to prepare military leaders for a “contested” space domain

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper has clinched its first airline deal, partnering with JetBlue to bring LEO connectivity to about 75 aircraft from 2027 in another blow to legacy geostationary players.

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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Are Due Sept. 12 We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards are now open. Established in 2017 as the […]

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NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency.

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The Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program marks the military’s first major attempt to deploy constellations of small satellites in the geostationary belt

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Portland, Oregon-based AscendArc has sold its first small geostationary communications satellite to KT Sat, South Korea’s flagship operator.

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A former NASA administrator told senators he believed it was “highly unlikely” the agency would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there.

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The satellite operator is positioning its Lightspeed LEO constellation as a data-transport solution for the Pentagon’s missile defense shield

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SAN FRANCISCO – Spacedock, a Silicon Valley startup formerly known as Orbital Outpost X, announced plans Aug. 20 for a 2026 in-space demonstration of a universal connector for space systems. Working with launch integrator Oligo Space and radiation-shielding specialist Melagen Labs, Spacedock is preparing to fly its berthing and docking connector, also called Spacedock, in […]

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Last February, I wrote that the merger of the satellite and terrestrial cellular industry was not yet a marriage made in heaven. However, at the Mobile World Congress , held last March in Barcelona, I noticed that Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) and direct-to-device (D2D) services received an exceptional amount of attention from the cellular industry. In […]

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A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the moon but instead in Colorado, at a site selected by Lunar Outpost to test the rovers it is developing for NASA and others. In many […]

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General Atomics and Kepler Communications demonstrate interoperability for Space Force’s future military constellation

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Turku, Finland — 29 August 2025 — ASRO – Aboa Space Research Oy and Ethereal Space, Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership to develop and deploy advanced space weather instruments designed to monitor energetic […]

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The headquarters of U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

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The recent passing of retired Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, an astronaut and one of our great American heroes, propelled many of us back to the iconic scenes from the superb […]

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