Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
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.
Space.com
• Keith Cooper
By Space.com: From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet that's got everyone talking, 2025 has been jam-packed with astronomical excitement and revelation.
collectSPACE
• Robert Pearlman
By collectSPACE: A 100-foot tall rocket rolled into Houston last week to join the small collection of very large launch vehicles populating the rocket park at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Texas.
SpaceQ
• Marc Boucher
By SpaceQ: In this video from the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen explains what his role will be on the Artemis 2 mission to the moon.
Space Explored
• Theresa Cross
By Space Explored: A new phrase has been quietly circulating through space-industry discussions over the past year: Orbital data centers. The idea sounds...
By Spaceflight Now:  Update Dec. 27, 5:56 p.m. EST (2256 UTC): SpaceX scrubbed the launch due to a ground issue, targeting Sunday, Dec.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods - most notably they don’t use any propellant. But, how exactly do they turn? In traditional sailing, a ship’s captain can simply adjust the angle of the sail itself to catch the wind at a different angle.
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin
By NASA Spaceflight: Along Florida’s Space Coast, two ambitious aerospace companies are rapidly transforming historic launch sites into….
