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Ariane 6 places two Galileo satellites into orbit, boosting Europe’s navigation resilience

On 17 December 2025 Arianespace’s Ariane 6 launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, placing two Galileo satellites (Sat 33 and Sat 34) into orbit. The mission — the 14th Galileo launch — strengthens Europe’s satellite navigation resilience and autonomy.

2025-12-16T21:52:08.293366-08:00

Ars Technica

NASA’s $4.3B space telescope completes construction, will map the Milky Way in 3D

2025-12-16T13:35:08.592245-08:00

Payload

Golden Dome: How a Year‑Old Program Secured $25B and Rewired Space Investment

2025-12-16T05:01:06.184980-08:00

SpaceWatch Global

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

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

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SpaceWatch Global

Unseenlabs will supply RF satellite maritime surveillance data to S&P Global Unseenlabs agreed to supply S&P Global with radio-frequency (RF) satellite data dedicated to maritime surveillance under a commercial data agreement. The feed will provide S&P Global with RF-derived ship detection and location information sourced from Unseenlabs’ space-based RF sensors to support maritime monitoring.

2025-12-17T03:08:58.045867-08:00

Unseenlabs will supply RF satellite maritime surveillance data to S&P Global

SpaceNews.com

OQ Technology connects commercial IoT chipset directly to LEO satellite Luxembourg-based OQ Technology said Dec. 17 it connected a commercial IoT chipset directly to one of its LEO satellites using internally developed software based on 3GPP mobile standards. The test uses an in‑house 3GPP‑compliant stack to enable direct‑to‑satellite IoT with a standard chipset, advancing NTN commercialisation.

2025-12-17T00:03:26.277011-08:00

OQ Technology connects commercial IoT chipset directly to LEO satellite

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Ariane 6 places two Galileo satellites into orbit, boosting Europe’s navigation resilience On 17 December 2025 Arianespace’s Ariane 6 launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, placing two Galileo satellites (Sat 33 and Sat 34) into orbit. The mission — the 14th Galileo launch — strengthens Europe’s satellite navigation resilience and autonomy.

2025-12-16T21:52:08.293366-08:00

Ariane 6 places two Galileo satellites into orbit, boosting Europe’s navigation resilience

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX to launch Starlink from Vandenberg using Falcon 9 on booster’s 30th flight SpaceX will launch a Starlink mission Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base using a Falcon 9 booster on its 30th flight. It’s the second of two SpaceX launches that day, following an earlier Falcon 9 liftoff from Kennedy Space Center a few hours prior.

2025-12-16T19:11:03.813938-08:00

SpaceX to launch Starlink from Vandenberg using Falcon 9 on booster’s 30th flight

SpaceNews.com

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Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat to fly on Rocket Lab Electron for USSF STP‑S30 The Aerospace Corporation’s DiskSat — a flat, disk‑shaped smallsat bus built to deliver higher power, surface area and payload volume than a CubeSat for very‑low‑Earth‑orbit experiments — will fly Dec. 18 aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron on the U.S. Space Force STP‑S30 rideshare.

2025-12-16T16:23:39.093380-08:00

Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat to fly on Rocket Lab Electron for USSF STP‑S30

SpaceNews.com

Digantara raises $50M to expand from space surveillance into missile defense, eyes U.S. market Digantara Industries, an Indian space situational awareness company, has closed a $50 million funding round to expand into the U.S. market and pursue missile‑defense work. The capital will fund a shift from ground‑based space surveillance toward products and services for missile‑warning and defence customers.

2025-12-16T15:42:08.253605-08:00

Digantara raises $50M to expand from space surveillance into missile defense, eyes U.S. market

Ars Technica

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NASA’s $4.3B space telescope completes construction, will map the Milky Way in 3D NASA’s $4.3 billion space telescope has completed construction and is designed to produce three‑dimensional maps and time‑series “3D movies” of the Milky Way, giving astronomers unprecedented structural and dynamical views of our galaxy. The observatory aims to transform studies of stellar populations and galactic motion.

2025-12-16T13:35:08.592245-08:00

NASA’s $4.3B space telescope completes construction, will map the Milky Way in 3D

Space.com

Parker Solar Probe Observes Solar Wind 'U‑Turn', Offering Better Insights for Space‑Weather Forecasting NASA's Parker Solar Probe has observed a previously unseen 'U‑turn' in the solar wind, a reversal in plasma flow that reveals new transport dynamics. The result improves understanding of heliospheric behavior and could enable more accurate, longer‑timescale space‑weather forecasts across the solar system.

2025-12-16T13:07:34.445590-08:00

Parker Solar Probe Observes Solar Wind 'U‑Turn', Offering Better Insights for Space‑Weather Forecasting

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