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ESA's Bremen ministerial secures more than €22bn — Europe ups the stakes in space

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher won his bet at the Bremen ministerial, securing member-state commitments of more than €22 billion to fund agency programmes across science, launchers and communications. The cash injection raises Europe’s strategic and industrial ambition in space and improves multi‑year visibility for procurement.

2025-12-16T02:50:06.729501-08:00

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SpaceX IPO could be the biggest ever next year, reshaping aerospace valuations

2025-12-15T09:50:21.348822-08:00

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Parker Solar Probe maps shifting, spiky boundary where the solar wind originates

2025-12-15T08:03:50.458887-08:00

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Starfish Space and Impulse Space complete Remora autonomous rendezvous using single‑camera guidance

2025-12-15T06:06:19.029329-08:00

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China conducts three orbital launches: experimental cargo ship, classified tech demo and Ziyuan‑III 04 EO satellite China launched three orbital missions in recent days, placing an experimental commercial cargo spacecraft and an opaque, classified technology‑demonstration into orbit alongside a new remote‑sensing satellite. The Ziyuan‑III 04 Earth‑observation satellite lifted on a Long March‑4B from Taiyuan on Dec. 16, 2025 at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time.

2025-12-16T03:24:42.789608-08:00

China conducts three orbital launches: experimental cargo ship, classified tech demo and Ziyuan‑III 04 EO satellite

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MAVEN telemetry shows unexpected orbit and attitude changes, raising concerns about spacecraft health Telemetry from NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter shows unexpected changes in both orbit and attitude, prompting concern that the anomaly may be more serious than an ordinary communications glitch. NASA and collaborators are analyzing data to determine the cause and implications for spacecraft health and mission operations.

2025-12-16T03:11:50.977504-08:00

MAVEN telemetry shows unexpected orbit and attitude changes, raising concerns about spacecraft health

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ESA's Bremen ministerial secures more than €22bn — Europe ups the stakes in space ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher won his bet at the Bremen ministerial, securing member-state commitments of more than €22 billion to fund agency programmes across science, launchers and communications. The cash injection raises Europe’s strategic and industrial ambition in space and improves multi‑year visibility for procurement.

2025-12-16T02:50:06.729501-08:00

ESA's Bremen ministerial secures more than €22bn — Europe ups the stakes in space

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Egypt launches domestically manufactured SPNEX climate satellite, marking national space capability milestone Egypt's Space Agency said on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, it successfully launched SPNEX — a domestically manufactured climate-monitoring satellite — marking a milestone in Cairo's drive to build national space capability. The mission delivers in-orbit capability for environmental and climate observation developed within Egypt's emerging space sector.

2025-12-16T02:50:06.717487-08:00

Egypt launches domestically manufactured SPNEX climate satellite, marking national space capability milestone

Seattle Times

Alaska begins commercial Starlink Wi‑Fi service on four Embraer E175s after early FAA sign‑off Alaska Airlines has started commercial flights with SpaceX Starlink inflight Wi‑Fi on four Embraer E175 regional jets after an early FAA certification cleared the retrofit. The deployment, originally slated for 2026, was advanced to bring high‑speed broadband to the carrier’s regional fleet sooner.

2025-12-16T00:02:44.434503-08:00

Alaska begins commercial Starlink Wi‑Fi service on four Embraer E175s after early FAA sign‑off

Sky News

Sky News: Unauthorised Starlink Use Widespread as Starlink Fleet and Launch Cadence Outpace Regulators SpaceX now accounts for the majority of global rocket launches and Starlink satellites make up more than half of objects in orbit. A Sky News analysis finds widespread unauthorised use of Starlink, raising security, regulatory and space-traffic management risks as oversight struggles to keep pace.

2025-12-15T19:50:41.280152-08:00

Sky News: Unauthorised Starlink Use Widespread as Starlink Fleet and Launch Cadence Outpace Regulators

Via Satellite

Cailabs and DataPath to develop transportable optical ground stations for laser communications Cailabs has entered an agreement with DataPath to co-develop transportable optical ground stations aimed at bringing laser-communications ground hardware to market. The collaboration focuses on portable optical ground-segment systems to support on-site laser communications demonstrations and commercial deployments at scale.

2025-12-15T18:26:48.743003-08:00

Cailabs and DataPath to develop transportable optical ground stations for laser communications

Space.com

Science paper combines GHGSat, SRON and Carbon Mapper data to map global oil, gas and coal methane emissions A Science paper combining data from GHGSat, the SRON Netherlands Institute and Carbon Mapper uses private satellite observations to produce the first global estimates of methane emissions from oil, gas and coal facilities. The highest measured emissions were in Turkmenistan, the U.S., Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan.

2025-12-15T14:09:02.231466-08:00

Science paper combines GHGSat, SRON and Carbon Mapper data to map global oil, gas and coal methane emissions

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