NASA Spaceflight
• Haygen Warren
Nine international orbital launches are scheduled during the final full week of 2025, creating a dense year‑end cadence of missions across multiple launch ranges. The cluster compresses range schedules, recovery operations and provider production windows as operators close out 2025 and set up mission sequencing for 2026.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Tory Bruno, the longtime chief executive of United Launch Alliance, is leaving the joint venture for another opportunity.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: U.S. Space Force leaders, defense primes, and commercial partners like Amazon Leo for Government talked resilient hybrid commercial-government architectures at the recent Spacepower event.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
By Space.com: Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.
SpaceQ
• Marc Boucher
By SpaceQ: The NordSpace Environmental Assessment (EA) review has been completed and released, meaning construction of an orbital space launch complex can proceed.
Economic Times
• Somak Raychaudhury
By Economic Times: As 2025 concludes, ISRO gears up for a transformative 2026 with seven missions, including crucial Gaganyaan tests. India's human spaceflight dream hinges on qualifying the LVM3, validating the Crew Escape System, and perfecting re-entry trials.
SpaceNews.com
• News Release
By SpaceNews.com: Microgravity Research Rideshare Program Launched by Genesis, Experiments from €6K to and from SSO.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: SpaceX will bring customer sats to a unique sun-synchronous orbit over the Earth’s terminator, and Exolaunch is filling up the manifest.
