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.
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
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
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
Rendering of Orbit Fab’s refueling service architecture consists of propellant depots in various orbits, and shuttles that will deliver fuel from those depots to client spacecraft. Credit: Orbit Fab By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 September 2025 Concepts like ‘dynamic space operations’ and ‘sustained space maneuver’ refer not
Illustration of in-space refueling of satellites. Credit: Orbit Fab By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 September 2025 Concepts like ‘dynamic space operations’ and ‘sustained space maneuver’ refer not only to extending the life of satellites but also to allowing them to ‘take action’ NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — U.S.
