European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
European Spaceflight reports: ESA has awarded a contract to Ingegneria Dei Sistemi to design a reusable rocket stage recovery vessel as part of Avio’s €40 million reusable upper stage project.
Last Updated: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, 12:05 AM PDT
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Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: To anyone worried about “militarizing” the Moon, Jim Bridenstine has some sage advice: get over it.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Commercial space station developer Axiom Space has replaced its chief executive after less than six months on the job.
smallsatnews.com
• SmallSatNews Staff
By smallsatnews.com:  A new contract for GomSpace—a smallsat company with a 75 satellite mission track record—has been received by the company, valued at 760,000 euros.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Five years after the first countries signed the Artemis Accords, a growing group of nations continues to work on how to implement the document.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: “We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.”….
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build a large cubesat platform for an in-orbit demonstration program that will host multiple European payloads.
Space.com
• Brett Tingley
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
SpaceNews.com
• Jarosław Adamowski
