By Deborah Williams, Published by World Beyond War, 8 October 2025 Here is breaking news from my city Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. The aerospace industry here started with a simple New Zealand-owned rocket site industry in the North Island named RocketLab operating on Māori land on the Mahia Peninsula.
Activists block entrances to Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre; FROM VIDEO by Poppy Clark By Poppy Clark and Sandra Arambepola, Published by Stuff, 8 October 2025 Police have made dozens of arrests as protesters tried to stop the National Aerospace Summit at Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre on Wednesday morning.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn New Glenn’s second stage tank at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL., July 14, 2022. (Photo: Blue Origin) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 7 October 2025 The contract is a public-private partnership agreement awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command WASHINGTON
Artist's Impression of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: NASA By John Barentine,Principal Consultant and Executive Officer at Dark Sky Consulting and co-founder of Space Environmentaism A Blog for Keep Space for Peace Week, October 2025 Outer space is changing rapidly, especially the space near Earth. Private actors now dominate the human technological
Image: UK Defence Journal By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 6 October 2025 The UK is investing in new sensor technology designed to detect and counter laser threats to satellites, protecting assets vital to the economy, national security, and military operations. According to a Ministry of Defence press
By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 6 October 2025 "When it comes to exploration, there is no private option." The government may be shut down, but space exploration advocates are still pleading NASA's case on Capitol Hill. On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge
Can the U.S. and China cooperate in space? (Image credit: Dragon Claws/iStock/Getty Images) By Jeff Foust, Published by The Space Review, 6 October 2025 The International Astronautical Congress is billed as one of the largest global space conferences and an opportunity for countries to come together to discuss key space
Golden Dome Rardar.Image: Defence Blog By Dylan Malyasov, Published by Defense Blog, 4 October 2025 Northrop Grumman is advancing U.S. homeland defense with its new “Golden Dome for America,” built around the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) — a mobile, ground-based sensor designed to detect, track, and respond to
