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2025 Orbital Emergency from Space Debris Sparks Calls for Urgent Industry and Regulatory Action

A 2025 orbital emergency caused by space debris has prompted industry and regulators to demand rapid improvements in debris mitigation, tracking and traffic management. The incident — and the warning that "some will not change behavior until something bad happens" — intensifies calls for coordinated policy and technical fixes.

2025-12-30T14:08:10.783176-08:00

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Golden Insulation Shines During Satellite Proximity‑Operations Test

2025-12-30T07:09:56.443780-08:00

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European Commission adds Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg to EU Space Surveillance and Tracking partnership

2025-12-29T04:10:34.218715-08:00

Universe Today

Design-for-Demise Dilemma: MaiaSpace paper flags unintended consequences of smallsat burn-up strategy

2025-12-28T07:44:42.241739-08:00

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2025 Orbital Emergency from Space Debris Sparks Calls for Urgent Industry and Regulatory Action A 2025 orbital emergency caused by space debris has prompted industry and regulators to demand rapid improvements in debris mitigation, tracking and traffic management. The incident — and the warning that "some will not change behavior until something bad happens" — intensifies calls for coordinated policy and technical fixes.

2025-12-30T14:08:10.783176-08:00

2025 Orbital Emergency from Space Debris Sparks Calls for Urgent Industry and Regulatory Action

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Golden Insulation Shines During Satellite Proximity‑Operations Test Engineers report a satellite proximity‑operations test successfully validated multilayer golden insulation while preparing spacecraft for the complex task of safely approaching another object in orbit. The demonstration aimed to exercise thermal, structural and operational margins needed for rendezvous, inspection and potential on‑orbit servicing missions.

2025-12-30T07:09:56.443780-08:00

Golden Insulation Shines During Satellite Proximity‑Operations Test

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Cape Canaveral logs record 109 launches in 2025; SpaceX flew 101 Cape Canaveral logged a record 109 orbital launches in 2025, as global launch activity surged; SpaceX alone accounted for 101 missions. By Christmas, providers had broken previous annual orbital-launch records, marking an unprecedented operational cadence for the year, driven largely by commercial operators.

2025-12-29T21:04:55.616370-08:00

Cape Canaveral logs record 109 launches in 2025; SpaceX flew 101

SpaceWatch Global

European Commission adds Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg to EU Space Surveillance and Tracking partnership The European Commission has adopted an Implementing Decision making Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg members of the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking partnership. The move formally expands the SST partnership's membership and completes the Commission's approval process for these four states.

2025-12-29T04:10:34.218715-08:00

European Commission adds Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg to EU Space Surveillance and Tracking partnership

Universe Today

Design-for-Demise Dilemma: MaiaSpace paper flags unintended consequences of smallsat burn-up strategy A paper by Antoinette Ott and Christophe Bonnal of MaiaSpace argues the Design-for-Demise principle — letting most small satellites burn up at end-of-life — creates unintended consequences for orbital sustainability and operations, calling into question disposal assumptions used for current megaconstellation deployments.

2025-12-28T07:44:42.241739-08:00

Design-for-Demise Dilemma: MaiaSpace paper flags unintended consequences of smallsat burn-up strategy

Space Explored

Orbital Data Centers: Why the Space Industry Is Betting on In‑Orbit Cloud Infrastructure The concept of 'orbital data centers'—cloud computing and AI infrastructure hosted in Earth orbit—is gaining traction across the space industry as operators, cloud providers and satellite firms explore moving compute and storage off‑Earth to exploit near‑constant solar power, vacuum cooling and new on‑orbit assembly techniques.

2025-12-27T11:58:54.253611-08:00

Orbital Data Centers: Why the Space Industry Is Betting on In‑Orbit Cloud Infrastructure

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Report: SpaceX notified FAA only after agency had activated debris-response areas following Starship explosion Reports say SpaceX informed the FAA about the Starship explosion only after the agency had already activated debris-response areas, despite the event producing potentially hazardous debris. The timing highlights a discrepancy in notification that bears on launch–airspace coordination and debris response protocols.

2025-12-23T06:08:31.428535-08:00

Report: SpaceX notified FAA only after agency had activated debris-response areas following Starship explosion

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WorldView-3 photographs failing SpaceX Starlink satellite in orbit Vantor's WorldView-3 Earth-observation satellite photographed a malfunctioning SpaceX Starlink spacecraft in orbit on Dec. 18, capturing visible signs of a failure. The image provides rare commercial imagery of an in-orbit anomaly within SpaceX's large broadband constellation, offering situational awareness to operators and observers.

2025-12-23T03:04:21.041997-08:00

WorldView-3 photographs failing SpaceX Starlink satellite in orbit

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2025 Orbital Emergency from Space Debris Sparks Calls for Urgent Industry and Regulatory Action

Golden Insulation Shines During Satellite Proximity‑Operations Test

European Commission adds Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg to EU Space Surveillance and Tracking partnership

Design-for-Demise Dilemma: MaiaSpace paper flags unintended consequences of smallsat burn-up strategy

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