Starship debris is seen streaking through the sky after the January 16 explosion. Captured from video by Brian Henry By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 29 December 2025 2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the
Image: Lockheed Martin. By Martin Chomsky, Published by Defense Industry Europe, 27 December 2025 Rafael Systems Global Sustainment (RSGS) has been selected as an awardee in the Missile Defense Agency’s second series of staggered awards under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity
AI generated image Published by Derimot.no, 27 December 2025 Russia plans to establish a power station on the Moon within the next decade. The space agency Roscosmos says it has signed a contract with NPO Lavochkin for work until 2036, and that both Rosatom and the Kurchatov Institute will contribute.
By Sandra V,Published by Union Rayo, 26 December 2025 Imagine looking at the sky at night and finding out that part of the light you see doesn’t come from the moon… but from giant mirrors floating in space. It sounds incredible, right? Well, now a small company in California wants
An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 23 December 2025 Vantor's WorldView-3 satellite snapped the stunning photo on Dec. 18. We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite in orbit, thanks to Vantor's WorldView-3
By Ian Sample, Published by The Guardian, 22 December 2025 As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed Patches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the
By Clarence Oxford, Published by Space War, 17 December 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) - U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command has activated System Delta 80 to manage launch solutions, on-orbit servicing, and range systems in support of the Assured Access to Space Program Executive Office portfolio. This new delta
Illustration Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Published by New Scientist, 16 December 2025 Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their
