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Today In Space
Last Updated: Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, 9:08 AM PST
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Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
Chinese companies openly advertising Starship-style heavy‑lift rockets
By Ars Technica: Chinese companies are no longer hiding their intent to clone SpaceX. They’re advertising it.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
Smallsat builder/operator AAC Clyde sells up to $15M in shares to Bonnier Capital, which becomes company's largest shareholder
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Small satellite hardware and services provider AAC Clyde Space has issued 1.19….
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
GomSpace to provide RF subsystem for Apolink LEO relay demonstrator
By SpaceNews.com: Palo Alto startup Apolink has picked GomSpace to build the radio frequency subsystem for its first relay cubesat, aiming to show how signals can be received from other LEO spacecraft and forwarded to the ground.
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Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
Starfish, Impulse Partner on Remora RPO Mission
By Payload: Starfish Space and Impulse Space teamed up quietly this year to conduct an RPO demo in orbit, bringing spacecraft to within 1,250 meters of each other.
Space.com
• Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
NASA tests Mars aerial-explorer drones in Death Valley to advance next‑gen planetary flight
By Space.com: To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
2.8 Days to Disaster: How Mega-Constellations Threaten Low Earth Orbit with a Collision Cascade
By Universe Today: A “House of Cards” is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
A Golden Era of Solar Discovery
By Universe Today: Scientists have achieved an unprecedented view of the Sun by coordinating observations between two of the most powerful solar instruments ever built. For the first time, observations from the Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft have captured the same solar region simultaneously from different vantage points.
