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Last Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 7:12 AM PST
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4 Takeaways from Terran Orbital on Industrializing Space and Competing in a Contested Domain
By Space Intel Report: With global competition accelerating and space becoming a contested operational domain, the industry must embrace a….
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• Rick Tumlinson
U.S. Should Stop Treating China’s Lunar Ambitions as a Race
By SpaceNews.com: America must stop treating China’s lunar plans as a footrace.
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• Andrew Jones
China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets
By SpaceNews.com: China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets China launched four missions in four days, accelerating its record-setting launch cadence while expanding its Guowang LEO megaconstellation and deploying new Yaogan reconnaissance assets.
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• Josh Dinner
Aetherflux unveils 'Galactic Brain' plan for orbiting AI data centers powered by space-based solar
By Space.com: Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space.".
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• Mike Wall
SpaceX to Launch Classified NROL‑77 Mission for U.S. Military Today (Dec. 9)
By Space.com: Liftoff of the classified NROL-77 mission is scheduled for 2:16 p.m. ET today (Dec. 9).
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• Douglas Gorman
LeoLabs Lands Cross-Government Licensing Contract
By Payload: OSC will evaluate how to integrate Leolabs data into its TraCSS to extend LeoLabs’ orbital alert capabilities to the commercial sector.
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• Mark A Garcia
Soyuz Returns to Earth with NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim and Two Roscosmos Cosmonauts
By NASA: The Soyuz spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, will make a parachute-assisted landing at 12:03 a.m.
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