By Jackson Chen, Published by engadget, 1 November 2025 SpaceX could build up to 600 satellites that will be used for a high-tech aerial defense system. SpaceX will reportedly receive a $2 billion contract to develop satellites for the US government, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ's report
U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defence system could take decades to build and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) By Christian Davenport, William Neff and Aaron Steckelberg, Published by The Washington Post, 29 October 2025 Since ordering the Pentagon in January to erecta
An illustration of the Golden Dome. Credit: Arcfield By John T. Seward, Published by The Washington Times, 28 October 2025 The head of President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense program gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that described the secretive architecture of the project,
Skyrora's Skylark L ahead of a suborbital launch attempt from Iceland’s Langanes peninsula in October 2022. Credit: Skyrora By Billy Briggs, Published by The Ferret, 26 October 2025 He is the Ukrainian owner of a space rocket company pivotal to Scotland’s burgeoning space industry, who aims to use private enterprise
A rocket lifts off in French Guiana in 2019 carrying satellites built by Airbus and Thales, who have joined with Leonardo in the new venture. Photograph: Jody Amiet/AFP/Getty By Lauren Almeida and Jasper Jolly, Published by The Guardian, 23 October 2025 Deal between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales is expected to
Artist's concept of On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) spacecraft docking with a satellite. Credit: NASA By Bogdan Gogulan, CEO and Managing Partner at NewSpace Capital Published by Space News, 17 October 2025 It isn’t surprising that more and more space companies are pivoting to defense. Defense budgets are
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.
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
