“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
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.
(DKosig/Getty Images) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 8 October 2025 European rearmament and Trump’s Golden Dome drive surge in investments and valuations, executives say WASHINGTON — A wave of defense spending in Europe and renewed military investment in the United States — driven in part by President Donald
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
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
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.
