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SpaceX to close 2025 with Falcon 9 launch of Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation FM3 from Vandenberg

SpaceX will close 2025 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (CSG‑FM3) Earth‑observation satellite, which is encapsulated in the rocket's payload fairing. The liftoff is scheduled as the company's final Falcon 9 mission of the year.

2025-12-27T06:00:25.663470-08:00

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Kirigami-enabled solar sails let sailcraft turn without propellant

2025-12-27T03:54:23.461136-08:00

Space Intel Report

Amazon Leo outlines AWS integration, targets 2026 service as 'bigger, badder' rockets prepare launches

2025-12-26T12:09:37.319575-08:00

Runway Girl

United integrates Starlink and cloud-based apps to migrate seatback and personal-device IFE online

2025-12-26T10:26:58.148425-08:00

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SpaceX to close 2025 with Falcon 9 launch of Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation FM3 from Vandenberg SpaceX will close 2025 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (CSG‑FM3) Earth‑observation satellite, which is encapsulated in the rocket's payload fairing. The liftoff is scheduled as the company's final Falcon 9 mission of the year.

2025-12-27T06:00:25.663470-08:00

SpaceX to close 2025 with Falcon 9 launch of Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation FM3 from Vandenberg

Universe Today

Kirigami-enabled solar sails let sailcraft turn without propellant A University of Pennsylvania preprint by Gulzhan Aldan and Igor Bargatin describes using kirigami — patterned structural cuts — to generate steering torques for solar sails, enabling turn maneuvers without propellant. The technique addresses a long-standing control limitation for propellant-free sailcraft.

2025-12-27T03:54:23.461136-08:00

Kirigami-enabled solar sails let sailcraft turn without propellant

Space Intel Report

Amazon Leo outlines AWS integration, targets 2026 service as 'bigger, badder' rockets prepare launches Amazon Leo officials said the LEO broadband constellation will integrate closely with AWS, promising secure, high-throughput links for enterprise and airline customers and targeting initial service in 2026. The company signalled an accelerated launch push using what it called 'bigger, badder' rockets to speed deployment.

2025-12-26T12:09:37.319575-08:00

Amazon Leo outlines AWS integration, targets 2026 service as 'bigger, badder' rockets prepare launches

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Russia likely deploying nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at former Belarus airbase, researchers say Satellite imagery studied by two U.S. researchers indicates Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear‑capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus. The move would extend Russia’s strike reach across Europe, alter regional force posture and complicate NATO air‑defence planning.

2025-12-26T11:27:33.412589-08:00

Russia likely deploying nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at former Belarus airbase, researchers say

Runway Girl

United integrates Starlink and cloud-based apps to migrate seatback and personal-device IFE online United is leveraging Starlink's high-speed, low-latency LEO broadband to stream cloud-hosted applications directly to seatback screens and passengers' personal devices, migrating IFE functions off onboard servers into cloud platforms. The move underpins a broader shift in IFE architecture as airlines retrofit fleets for LEO connectivity.

2025-12-26T10:26:58.148425-08:00

United integrates Starlink and cloud-based apps to migrate seatback and personal-device IFE online

Universe Today

Lawrence Livermore releases open-source dataset mapping 1 million cis‑lunar orbits Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory published an open-source dataset and software package enumerating one million cis‑lunar orbits, providing precomputed trajectories for three‑body dynamics between Earth and the Moon. The resource is designed to simplify trajectory selection and speed mission design for lunar and cislunar operations.

2025-12-26T07:01:58.180073-08:00

Lawrence Livermore releases open-source dataset mapping 1 million cis‑lunar orbits

challenges.fr

With Loft Orbital, Pierre‑Damien Vaujour offers self‑service satellite access Loft Orbital, a Franco‑American NewSpace company and one of 2025’s rare unicorns, offers a self‑service platform that lets customers deploy and operate payloads aboard hosted satellites. Founder Pierre‑Damien Vaujour is featured in Challenges among a gallery of successful industry leaders sharing advice.

2025-12-25T07:21:04.656811-08:00

With Loft Orbital, Pierre‑Damien Vaujour offers self‑service satellite access

voxelmatters.com

U. of Illinois 3D-prints flat carbon-fiber composites that self-morph into curved satellite parts in orbit University of Illinois researchers have 3D-printed flat carbon-fiber composite structures that self-morph into curved satellite components in space. The work demonstrates a pathway to manufacture complex curved parts as compact, flat forms on the ground and transform them after launch.

2025-12-25T06:06:40.044949-08:00

U. of Illinois 3D-prints flat carbon-fiber composites that self-morph into curved satellite parts in orbit

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SpaceX to close 2025 with Falcon 9 launch of Italy's Cosmo‑SkyMed Second Generation FM3 from Vandenberg

Kirigami-enabled solar sails let sailcraft turn without propellant

Amazon Leo outlines AWS integration, targets 2026 service as 'bigger, badder' rockets prepare launches

United integrates Starlink and cloud-based apps to migrate seatback and personal-device IFE online

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