Europe   Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Commercial Space   Space Policy & International Cooperation  
European Spaceflight • Andrew Parsonson

SpaceForest pushes for permanent launch site in Poland to support domestic suborbital rockets

Polish rocket builder SpaceForest is advocating for a permanent national launch site to support several domestically developed suborbital rockets and their test campaigns. The proposal aims to provide dedicated infrastructure for Poland’s emerging suborbital launch activity and enable regular flight operations from home soil.

2025-12-21T22:05:37.907548-08:00
Supply Chain   Moon   Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Space Exploration & Science Missions  
Universe Today • Andy Tomaswick

Purdue Study: Building Reusable Lunar Launchpads from Local Regolith with Minimal Material Data

By Universe Today: Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones.

2025-12-21T04:46:04.963408-08:00
Aviation Safety & Regulation   Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Space Debris & Traffic Management   Policy & Regulation  
Wall Street Journal • Andrew Tangel

FAA documents show January 16 Starship explosion posed greater risk to flights over the Caribbean

By Wall Street Journal: FAA documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show an explosion of SpaceX’s Starship on Jan. 16 posed a greater danger to planes in the air over the Caribbean than was publicly known.

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2025-12-20T20:49:48.640802-08:00