“They Changed the Mission Midway”: NASA’s Dream Chaser Spaceplane Breaks Free From the ISS Plan (and It’s Aiming for Defense and Private Space)

“They Changed the Mission Midway”: NASA’s Dream Chaser Spaceplane Breaks Free From the ISS Plan (and It’s Aiming for Defense and Private Space) By Gabriel Cruz, Published by Rude Bagette, 9 October 2025 Sierra Space and NASA have revised their contract for the Dream Chaser spaceplane, transitioning its role from

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New Zealanders Get in the Way of the Weaponization of Space

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.

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‘Thrown backwards into a garden’: Activists allege rough treatment as police make dozens of arrests

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.

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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)

Blue Origin wins $78.2 million contract to expand satellite processing infrastructure at Cape Canaveral

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

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Space Rapid Capabilities Office to put radars on sats to warn of space-bound threats

GSSAP space domain awareness satellite (Air Force Space Command archive) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 2 October 2025 The plan is to award two vendors 24-month Direct to Phase II SBIR grants worth $3M each to demo low-cost, low-weight radars on Space Force satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.

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3D render of planet Earth viewed from space, with night lights in Europe and sun rising over Asia. Blue hue treatment. Elements from NASA (https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57752/land_shallow_topo_2048.jpg)

UK Space Agency goes global with 23 new projects

From UK Space Agency, Published by Gov.uk, 30 September 2025 A new batch of 23 projects will strengthen international space partnerships, develop national capabilities and boost economic growth, the UK Space Agency announced today. This is the second round of projects from the successful International Bilateral Fund (IBF), representing a

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Canadian Space Agency offers funding for dual-use technologies

Radarsat 2 with a C-band synthetic aperture radar instrument was launched in 2007. Image: Canadian Space Agency artist's concept By Debra Werner, Published by Space News, 30 September 2025 SYDNEY, Australia – Canada’s recently announced defense industrial strategy provides funding for space technologies with civil and military applications, Canadian Space

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Don’t look up: how Trump’s deregulation drive could obscure the stars and threaten our access to space

A string of SpaceX Starlink satellites pass over an old stone house in Kansas. Photograph: Reed Hoffmann/AP By Jonathan Yerushalmy, Published by The Guardian, 26 September 2025 Astronomers are warning that the proliferation of satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, are making their work harder than it’s ever been Donald Trump

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