Today In Space
Last Updated: Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, 10:05 AM PST
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SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
New Zealand Launches Kiwi Space Activator Program to Fund Domestic Space Technology Demonstrations
By SpaceWatch Global: The New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and employment (MBIE) is accepting applications for the Kiwi Space Activator.
Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
Parker Solar Probe maps shifting, spiky boundary where solar wind originates
By Space.com: "This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born.".
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.
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.
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….
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.
