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December 17, 2025
MICROSAT BLITZ
DiskSat flat satellite platform targets high power missions and very low Earth orbit



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat concept introduces a flat, disk-shaped small satellite bus designed to provide more power, surface area, and payload volume than a traditional CubeSat while keeping a standardized, containerized launch interface. A representative DiskSat demonstrator measures about 1 meter in diameter and roughly 2.5 centimeters thick, with an internal volume comparable to a 20U CubeSat and structural mass under 3 kilograms. NASA's Small Spacecraft and Distributed Systems progra ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
China launches carrier rocket to deploy experimental cargo ship and satellite
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
China launched a Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket on Saturday morning to deploy a privately developed experimental cargo ship and a satellite into space. The rocket blasted off at 9:08 am at the Jiu ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Mission Space to fly second space weather payload with Rogue Space
Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during the Spac ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Arab Satellite 813 launch deepens UAE China space partnership
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
A Kinetica 1 rocket has placed the Arab Satellite 813 into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, marking a new phase of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China in space acti ... more
TECH SPACE
What General Contractors Must Know About AI-Powered Estimating Software
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The construction industry, is long reliant on traditional methods, is undergoing a digital revolution. At the forefront of this shift is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the critical domain of cost estimation. ... more
MOON DAILY
JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operati ... more
MARSDAILY
HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hi ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researcher ... more

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Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space Telescope
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-r ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show how different ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been ... more
EXO WORLDS
Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope around the ... more
EXO WORLDS
Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Sun boundary map tracks shifting Alfven surface over solar cycle
Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic control. By comb ... more
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ROBO SPACE
Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
There are some jobs human bodies just weren't meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task - and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the n ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Ionospheric gradients tracked in real time to sharpen space weather monitoring
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Accurate, real-time tracking of ionospheric structure is becoming critical for protecting satellite-based navigation and communications, and a new observation framework now directly measures how ele ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
PUNCH mission delivers sweeping new view of solar activity
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images that place the ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
December 16, 2025 - Southwest Research Institute's Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has begun r ... more
SPACEMART
Financing the Next Space Boom: Options for Retail Investors to Stay Ahead
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The space industry has shifted from a slow-moving government sector to one of the most exciting commercial frontiers on the planet. Launch providers, satellite manufacturers, and orbital data companies are scaling faster than ever, and retail investors now have several ways to participate in this expansion. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Clues to the migration path of hot Jupiters in their orbits
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
The first exoplanet discovered in 1995 was a hot Jupiter, a Jupiter mass planet orbiting its star every few days. Today, models indicate that hot Jupiters form far from their stars, similar to Jupit ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Possible "superkilonova" exploded not once but twice
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of expl ... more
EXO WORLDS
Webb maps carbon rich atmosphere on distorted pulsar planet
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified an exoplanet with an atmosphere unlike any seen before, orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a pulsar. The object, off ... more
MARSDAILY
GoMars model simulates Martian dust storms to improve mission safety
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
Researchers in China have used a Mars general circulation model to simulate 50 years of Martian dust activity, aiming to improve forecasts of global dust storms that can disrupt exploration missions ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
Gemini North has obtained new color images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar object emerged from behind the Sun on its outbound trajectory from the Solar System. Using the Gemini Multi-Object ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Southern Launch to host INNOSPACE missions from South Australian spaceports
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
Southern Launch has signed a contract with South Korean launch service provider INNOSPACE to conduct space missions from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex and the Koonibba Test Range in South A ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab completes first dedicated JAXA mission with Electron launch
Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
Rocket Lab Corporation has carried out its first dedicated launch for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), advancing the role of the Electron small launch vehicle in Japan's satellite tech ... more
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Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky Way
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations sp ... more
IRON AND ICE
Micro X ray method reads ancient meteorite impact scars
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Researchers from China, Canada, and Japan have established a quantitative method to read the impact histories recorded in enstatite chondrites using micro X ray diffraction measurements. Enstatite c ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Musk signals plan to launch IPO for SpaceX
New York (AFP) Dec 11, 2025
Elon Musk has signaled plans to soon seek a public stock listing of SpaceX, confirming a report that links the strategic shift to a near-term need for more capital. ... more
SPACEWAR
Autonomous DARPA project to expand satellite surveillance network by BAE Systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' FAST Labs research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract under the Oversight pr ... 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
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