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December 13, 2025
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Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars



Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA engineers are continuing efforts to restore contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter after the spacecraft fell silent during a routine pass behind Mars on December 6 2025. Before the loss of signal, telemetry from MAVEN indicated that the spacecraft and its subsystems were operating within expected parameters as it approached occultation by the planet. As MAVEN moved behind Mars, communications with the Deep Space Network (DSN) cut off as expected, but controlle ... read more

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IRON AND ICE
ICE-CSIC leads a pioneering study on the feasibility of asteroid mining
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a geoc ... more
MARSDAILY
NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2025
The center leverages AI along with JPL's unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. NA ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar dust study links space weathering to changes in Moon ultraviolet brightness
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists working with researchers at UT San Antonio have analyzed Apollo lunar soil samples to determine how space weathering alters the Moon's su ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Uranus and Neptune may be rock rich worlds
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
The Solar System is often divided into four inner rocky planets, two gas giants, and two ice giants thought to be dominated by water and other volatiles, but new work from the University of Zurich s ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Star wobble reveals black hole dragging spacetime
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Astronomers have reported the first clear observation of a swirling distortion in spacetime produced by a rapidly spinning black hole, seen through the motion of material left over from a disrupted ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Gravitational lens time delays refine Hubble constant
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Astronomers are testing a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding by using time delays in gravitationally lensed images of distant quasars, in an effort to clarify the long-standing te ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New island of inversion found in proton neutron symmetric molybdenum nuclei
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
For decades, nuclear physicists have known that so called islands of inversion mark regions of the nuclear chart where standard shell structure breaks down and magic numbers vanish in favor of stron ... more
EXO WORLDS
RISTRETTO spectrograph cleared for Proxima b atmospheric hunt
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
The RISTRETTO project at the University of Geneva has reached a key stage, with several core elements of its high-precision spectrograph now prototyped and tested for observations of the nearby exop ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Record gamma ray burst traced to dusty massive host galaxy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Gamma ray bursts rank among the most energetic explosions known, usually flashing and fading within seconds or minutes, but on 2 July 2025 astronomers detected GRB 250702B, a source that produced re ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Nova images capture complex stellar blast behavior
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
An international group of astronomers led by Texas Tech University assistant professor Elias Aydi published a paper titled Multiple outflows and delayed ejections revealed by early imaging of novae ... more
SPACEMART
Private capital targets mission-critical software power and platforms in new space economy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Axle Point Capital and Balerion Space Ventures are directing new private capital into companies that build core infrastructure for the expanding U.S. space and defense economy, from mission software ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Experts at Hainan symposium call for stronger global space partnership
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
The 2025 International Symposium on the Peaceful Use of Space Technology - Health (IPSPACE 2025) opened Tuesday in Boao, a coastal town in China's Hainan province, with a focus on expanding coopera ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China prepares Qingzhou cargo ship for low cost resupply flights
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Qingzhou, or light vessel, China's new-generation cargo spacecraft, has achieved breakthroughs in multiple key technologies and is scheduled to make its maiden flight next year, according to its dev ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Triple Long March launches mark record day for Chinese space program
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) has achieved three orbital launches with Long March rockets in a single day, setting a new mark for the country's spaceflight cadence. The fi ... more
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DRAGON SPACE
Foreign satellites ride Kinetica 1 on new CAS Space mission
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
CAS Space has carried out the 11th launch of its Kinetica 1 solid-fuel carrier rocket, orbiting nine satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. The ... more
SPACEWAR
US and allies sharpen coalition spacepower through CSpO partnership
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
U.S. military officials joined leaders from all 10 nations in the Combined Space Operations Initiative at the new French Space Command Headquarters in Toulouse, where they underscored the role of CS ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
LizzieSat 3 completes bus commissioning for multi mission AI operations
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Sidus Space has completed bus-level commissioning of its LizzieSat-3 spacecraft, confirming that the satellite's core systems are operational in orbit and ready to support customer missions. LS-3 is ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Outage Prevention from Orbit: Why Utilities Are Turning to Satellites and Geospatial Analytics
Perrysburg OH (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
Utilities and local energy distribution companies (LDCs) face ongoing challenges in managing their infrastructure. Keeping track of power lines, pipelines, energy plant emissions, and other assets is essential ... more
ROBO SPACE
Robotic welding project to prepare UK for in orbit repairs
London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers at the University of Leicester are leading work to develop what they describe as the UKs first in space robotic welding capability, supported by new funding from the UK Space Agencys Nat ... more
TECH SPACE
OroraTech expands GENA satellite platform with orbital testbed for scientific payloads
Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
OroraTech has launched GENA-OT, the first mission built on its GEneric flexible NAnosatellite platform, on SpaceX's Transporter-15 rideshare flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The 16U CubeSat ... more
TECH SPACE
ONE Bow River backs Odyssey Space Research growth in flight software and mission engineering
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
ONE Bow River National Defense Fund has taken a strategic stake in Odyssey Space Research LLC, a spaceflight software and engineering firm that supports government and commercial missions. The ... more
TECH SPACE
D-Orbit launches dual orbital transportation missions, passes 200-payload milestone
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
D-Orbit, a global leader in space logistics and orbital transportation, has launched two new orbital transportation missions using its ION Satellite Carrier, pushing the company past the milestone o ... more
SPACEMART
Beyond Gravity positions new modular satellite platform for European LEO missions
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Beyond Gravity is expanding from supplying satellite components to delivering complete satellites based on a new low Earth orbit platform. The company aims to offer turnkey spacecraft to institution ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologies
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, working with collaborators at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, report that controlling the structure of photons i ... more
TECH SPACE
Sidus Space to host MobLobSpace radar payload on LizzieSat for NASA debris tracking study
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Sidus Space Inc has been selected as a subcontractor to MobLobSpace Inc under a NASA Small Business Innovation Research award to support a mission concept hosting a space-based 4D radar system on th ... more
AEROSPACE
NASA refines aircraft icing safety modeling with GlennICE software
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers at NASAs Glenn Research Center in Cleveland used the Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) software to create three dimensional computational models of an advanced air mobilit ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Gilat wins 10 million dollar order for transportable direct downlink earth observation system
London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has secured an order of about 10 million dollars for a customized Earth observation direct downlink solution to be delivered over the next 12 months. The contract was a ... more
CHIP TECH
Quantum hardware roadmap highlights scaling hurdles on path to everyday applications
Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article in Science argues that the field now stands at a turning point - one that is similar to the early computi ... more
CYBER WARS
Secure ESA contract advances GomSpace satellite cybersecurity
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
GomSpace has signed a 1.2 million euro (13.2 MSEK) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a security-enhanced generation of its NanoCom product line under the SECUSAT program. The ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Antares lines up $96 million to advance microreactor rollout
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Antares has raised $96 million in Series B financing to support development and deployment of its compact nuclear microreactors for defense and space customers. The round, led by Shine Capital with ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
ArkEdge boosts 6U micro-satellite fleet with three-satellite AE5R launch
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2025 - ArkEdge Space Inc., a Tokyo-based space technology company that designs, builds, and operates micro-satellite constellations, has launched three new 6U-class satelli ... more
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