Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
Today In Space
Last Updated: Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, 11:41 AM PDT
2025-10-08T11:41:07.741733-07:00 2025-10-08T11:41:07.741733-07:00 (2025-10-08T11:41:07.741733-07:00)
ESA
Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars
By ESA: Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars In brief Combing through 20 years of images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, scientists have tracked 1039 tornado-like whirlwinds to reveal how dust is lifted into the air and swept around Mars’s surface.
North America
Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation
Space Exploration & Science Missions
Commercial Space
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Spaceflight Now
• Will Robinson-Smith
Blue Origin rolls New Glenn booster to Cape Canaveral ahead of second launch — Mars-bound mission
By Spaceflight Now:  Blue Origin is one step closer to its second ever launch of its New Glenn rocket.
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Space.com
• Mike Wall
Blue Origin launches six space tourists, including an unidentified ‘mystery’ passenger, on 15th suborbital flight
By Space.com: It was the 15th space tourist launch for Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
James Webb Space Telescope captures dust-shrouded red supergiant in final moments before supernova
By Space.com: "It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova.".
CNBC
• Alex Harring
Verizon inks deal with AST SpaceMobile to offer space-based cellular service from next year; AST shares jump
By CNBC: AST SpaceMobile announced a deal with Verizon to provide service from space beginning next year.
SpaceWatch Africa
AST SpaceMobile Signs Commercial Agreement with Verizon to Deliver Space-Based Cellular Broadband Across the Continental U.S.
Associated Press
Verizon teams with AST SpaceMobile on space-based cellular service
Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation
Space Exploration & Science Missions
Space Policy & International Cooperation
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Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on Artemis' Long‑Term Lunar Plans and Funding Cuts
By Payload: Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wants to make Artemis a household name.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
Space infrastructure investments surge to five-quarter high
By SpaceNews.com: Early-stage investor Space Capital said global investments in core space infrastructure climbed to a five-quarter high of $4.4 billion over the three months to the end of September, amid a breakout year for U.S.
