SpaceWatch Global
On December 18, 2025 the White House issued a landmark Executive Order titled 'Ensuring American Space Superiority.' The directive, framed as a strategic turn in U.S. space policy, signals a shift in national posture with immediate implications for defence priorities, procurement and international cooperation.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more than a month.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: Scientists have finally identified where some of the most powerful radiation bursts from solar flares originate, solving a mystery that has puzzled solar physicists for decades.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Vyoma has launched its surveillance satellite, Flamingo-1, to bolster the company's in-orbit surveillance of debris objects.
Breaking Defense
• Sydney J Freedberg Jr, Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: Slingshot's TALOS AI tool will be integrated into Space Training and Readiness Command's classified training operations, according to the company.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: Hydrosat raises $60 million in Series B funding.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: An Indian startup is entering the satellite servicing market with plans to develop low-cost spacecraft to extend the lives of satellites.
SpaceWatch Global
• Blaine Curcio
By SpaceWatch Global: Twelve of the Chinese space industry's 137 funding round were for companies involved in space laser communications.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
New York Times
• Erin Griffith, Lauren Hirsch
Space.com
• Robert Z Pearlman
